Aachen, March 13, 1997
Aachen, Germany – ELSA announces the newest, high-performance drivers for the ELSA GLoria, the new GLoria Advanced Driver Edition, available immediately from ELSA via CompuServe and the WWW. The new optimized drivers provide astounding 3D performance gains up to 60 % and 2D performance gains up to 40 % compared to the previously released drivers. In addition the Advanced Driver Edition contains GLoria Settings, the new configuration tool for 3D applications. GLoria Settings allows the instant optimization of the GLoria for more than 20 different 3D applications.
The Advanced Driver Edition provides Windows NT® OpenGL® 3D performance that exceeds 20 frames per second in the Viewperf CDRS-03 OpenGL® benchmark. This level of GLoria OpenGL® 3D acceleration outperforms many of the newest RISC workstation solutions! Additionally, ELSA engineers have fine-tuned the GLoria's 2D performance. New Winbench 97 performance of 48.4 WinMarks represents a 41 % increase in 2D graphics power. Both WinBench 97 and Viewperf 5.0 are application-driven benchmarks designed to reflect graphics performance when using real world 2D and 3D applications, respectively. The combined 2D/3D performance increase makes the GLoria a top performer without any sacrifice.
Test GLoria GLoria Adv. Driver Ed. Performance Increase Viewperf CDRS-03 12.54 20.24 61% WinBench 97 34.3 48.4 41%
"I am very pleased to see these dramatic performance gains with the Gloria-L and it's new Advanced Driver Edition", states Walter Fertl, the Workstation Manager for Compaq's EMEA region. "With this, the Compaqâ Professional Workstations set the new benchmark level for PentiumProâ based platforms with a Viewperf CDRS-03 rating of over 20, outperforming traditional midrange RISC-platforms by quite a margin. Even more important, we have seen very significant performance increases with some of the most power-hungry 3D CAD/CAM graphics applications, which suggests that the Compaq Professional Workstation 5000ä is quickly becoming the technical workstation of choice for engineering, scientific, and creative professionals."
Additionally, the GLoria Settings allow for easy optimization of the GLoria for 3D applications. A single click in GLoria Settings and the driver is configured for the selected application with optimal 3D settings. And GLoria Settings allows for easy addition of custom applications to the selection list as well. Of course advanced users have the opportunity via GLoria Settings to fine tune the driver to their own liking.
And there is no need to wait: the Advanced Driver Edition is available now. Simply visit ELSA's web page and go to the driver download area ("File Area" Þ "Product Software" Þ "GLoria"). Likewise, the Advanced Driver Edition is available in the ELSA CompuServe forum.
The ELSA GLoria-L graphics controller provides 3D resolutions up to 1600 x 1200, full texture mapping support, a 32 bit z-buffer and 100 % OpenGL® functionality. Additional 3D APIs that are supported include HEIDI and Direct3D. Drivers are available for Windows NT®â 4.0, 3.51, and Windows®â 95.
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