Thread: USB Video adapter *works*

model?

This is the model I bought, it was open box, they still sell them for $80
http://www.compusa.com/products/prod...ct_code=317126

The compUSA device is the same thing as this in a different case
http://www.trittontechnologies.com/p...s/TRIUV100.htm

Heres a review on it
http://www.everythingusb.com/tritton...a_adapter.html

Sweet little thing. What are you using it on?

First off the shipping drivers suck big time, use the generic ones on the tritton website.

After I got it running I used it as a second display, movies ran like ***, web browsing is fine, flash animations miss frames, scrolling is jittery, porn looks great

Then i figured I'd try to use it as a primary display, first i had to disable the driver app from loading everytime windows starts or it defaults it to a secondary display. Then I disabled my video card and restarted windows. No Bios screen, no windows boot screen, it just showed the windows login and operated as a stand alone video card. It seemed to run better being the only video card activated on the system. Initally Winamp Visualizations ran crappy since theres a lack of overlay support (which if fixed in a driver update will make this this A LOT better) so it has to run in a pure videocard mode. I set it at 640x480x16, and hit pixel doubling, and it was playing smoothly (about 25 Fps). It will take more playing around to get a better idea of how well it handles specific apps like GPS, but since it displayed crisp text in high res mode I wouldn't doubt the capabilities.

Now I haven't tested custom resolutions, yet, but as soon as i get more time at home i'll try to get 800x480 to work and if it does we might have a good option here. Windows natively supports the device as a regular video card so multi monitor options work flawlessly. The driver was stable the whole time, it will even work on USB 1.1 but to get any type of useable performance out of it you need to set the resolution at 640x480x8 even then its still agonizingly slow

Originally Posted by Cris

Sweet little thing. What are you using it on?

I was using it on my GF's system
Athon XP 2200+
512 DDR PC3200
100 GB HD
Windows Pro SP2

since mine was gutted for parts

So, this is meant only for a secondary web browsing display...

yes, but if better drivers (more optimized) materialize this should be on par with the intel i810 chipset, it already beats it in the image quality aspect. On any integrated video card 1280x1024 produced a lot of dot crawl on my LCD reguardless of refresh rate. this was crystal clear. I think a lot of the problems with the card are the drivers are still in their infancy another major release is supposed to happen within a month. and if they can nail better direct draw support it would be fine. Bandwidth shouldn't be too much of an issue since USB 2.0 is about half the rate of PCI and trust me low end video cards aren't even close to pushing 133MB/sec that the PCI bus is capable of so the only other limitation i can think of is the lack of power the USB port puts out.

hmm... nice find!

1280x768 - that's wide screen resolution right there.

I'm going to play with powerstrip when i get home from work tommorrow afternoon/ evening so i should be able to report if 800x480 works or not.

I'll even try to play some games (emulators) on it to see how well the 2d acceleration works in a full screen, windowed seemed iffy