You say you want a revolution? The Number 9 Revolution IV Video Card

Taking a look at the Revolution IV card for Number Nine.

[@acidhermit]

I knew about these "9" cards but never really owned or tried to own one, or saw as much stuff about them either since it's never been in my interest to own one. I don't even see them popping up in local online stores over here either. So it's nice that you made this video showcasing in more depth how they work and perform. I like these videos you make of "less known" stuff since it's always more interesting for me than the stuff everyone talks about, that being said I do recognize that it can be tough to make content around more rare stuff cause it usually doesn't get as many views as the things everyone else is looking for (I call those people "surface scratchers" mind you 😆). But anyway as long as there's people like you doing this stuff is always good 👍

[@soylentgreenb]

Frame time is the time in milliseconds to render a frame, so it is an inversion of framerate. You want frames per second, so you first convert milliseconds to seconds and then you invert it. Frametime is a more useful diagnostic because it tends not to be displayed as an average over the last frames but as an instantaneous value (frametime for *this* particular frame). In modern reviews they tend to look at average frametime (inverse of framerate) as well as the 10% low and 1% low or even sometimes .1% low. Those figures gives you a quick indication of frametime variance/stuttering and such.

[@Arivia1]

In addition to the i740 comparisons, it would have been nice if you'd gone over any marketing for the card that you could find and tried to verify if it had any special claims. Were there any games it was touted as being especially good at, possibly with a proprietary API? Did it have any special capabilities, like how S3 Savage cards get those better textures in Unreal Tournament due to the S3TC format? If you tried and didn't find anything for the Number 9 that's fair, but I'm suggesting this as a possible improvement for future videos. Thanks for the video!

[@AncientElectronics]

It's a good suggestion. There's a website called Vintage 3D that covers most if not all of the early 90's 3d accelerators which I usually reference before I do a video. Revolution didn't have an API or any game in particular it did super well that I could see.

[@KomradeMikhail]

Revolution Number Nine... Like the Beatles song off the White Album ?

[@AncientElectronics]

Thats the reference I was making but I have no idea if it was reference with the actual card or if there was any connection.

[@saxxonpike]

​@@AncientElectronics Number Nine included a lot of Beatles references in their products. On their SR9 model, putting it up to the light I can see the text "Working...eight days a week" through the PCB.

[@Snickerrick]

@@saxxonpike Noticed the "Ticket to Ride" printed on the graphics chip as well

[@plasmar1]

interestingly enough I had the same case, and removeable bay when I had cyrix 200 non-mmx lol...... ** I rebought the mobo and happen to find another case like it at thrift to rebuild it essentially

[@takedasun2657]

Unreal works in software mode, not in accelerated mode.

[@fft2020]

I have one but consider it a 2D card

[@fradd182]

Looks like a decent mid-range card, too bad that Unreal is unplayable.

[@Mr.box192]

WE COVER IT ALL 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@homelessEh]

wish i had usage for this s3 savage agp card rotting on my shelves.

[@SianaGearz]

This company had no retail channel in Europe AT ALL that i can remember. This is the problem with making your own graphics cards based on proprietary chips rather than selling chips. The only N9 cards i have ever seen came salvaged out of mid 90s nicer prebuilt computers. And who's going to talk about a card that people can't buy? I remember when Intel 740 came out it actually impressed me with how powerful it was but it didn't have OpenGL support at all, that came later. I kept a Permedia II at the time. My next card after was an ELSA TNT2.

[@NavJack27gaming]

fascinating. i like how this card has a lack of graphical glitches. who cares about the perf especially when bigger name cards might be as slow or maybe a tiny bit faster but not have quite as accurate rendering.

[@homelessEh]

i remember having a laptop with a number 9 it was a compaq presario that was marketed as a media laptop it had at the time Beefy speakers and external media controls it was such a good lil old laptop untill windows 98 became a problem. the lil thing didn't take to windows xp very well and eventually it got left in a car and it got REAL cold over night and the old LCD got freeze damage and became too washed out to do much with

[@homelessEh]

i honestly dont remember gaming on it tho.if i did it was quake or command and conquer. i know unreal wasn't doable if i remember the laptops 9 could be set to 4 or 8 mb settings. stealing 4mb from system ram leaving me with 6o mb of ram.

[@pgodwin]

I recall these on NT workstations with OpenGL support. Ditto with the i740 in NT running Unreal Tournament.

[@3dfxlegacy]

One my fetish, I could talk with Frank Bruno and those card is very interesting. It was a pity that it can't work well with games.

[@Fre1maurer]

No one wants cards like these as 3D accelerators. But they may be a good choice as VGA cards, just for a fast DOS machine, combined with a Pentium II or III (or AMD equivalent).