another voodoo question
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Reznor007
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Knuckles said:well actually, if you ALREADY have a 3D card, when you'll install you Voodoo2, when you will use D3D , it will still use your primary card. But when you will use Glide OR OpenGL, it will take the Voodoo2 (yes OpenGL too). BUT there is a solution, since the OpenGL is set by something in the registry (that the V2 drivers change to be used with the Voodoo when you install the drivers) the simply way to make it use the OGL back with your normal card is...... reinstall the drivers of your primary card
You could also change the driver installer inf to have it not add the OpenGL ICD line to the registry.
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sheik124
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it sucks but they have to be the same manufacturer, there is one guy on ebay selling a lot of 3 voodoo2's for 30 bucksLazerTag said:
i bought a creative voodoo2 card OEM mint condition, and one that has like 2 hours on it but includes the SLI cable and VGA Loop cable, they should arrive on friday, btw thanks knuckles for helping me out
Kaoss626
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To the best of my knowledge, same manufacturer was not a requirement as long as it was a reference board. The clock speeds were controled by the driver so thats not the issue.
OTOH many have proven the hard way it can really make it simpler if you do go with the same manufacturer. While it should not matter sometimes it can. If you can match them, it may save some headaches. If you cant, most likely you will be OK but not 100%.
Also if you cant get the SLI ribbon cable (I suggest some reasearch) ut as I recall, it is the same as the twisted part of a floppy drive ribbon cable but much shorter.
I was really up on my SLI geekieness a long time ago, but a lot has faded from memory over time
SLI can do 1024x768 at the same performance as a single card @ 800x600. One card handles odd frames while the other handles even ones.
I think there was some way to hook up 4 in some kind of SLI configuration, but it required a special controler board and never hit the mainstream market. Someone was showing a picture of it recently. I think it was limited to 1024x768x16 but it could do twice the FPS that standard SLI could.
OTOH many have proven the hard way it can really make it simpler if you do go with the same manufacturer. While it should not matter sometimes it can. If you can match them, it may save some headaches. If you cant, most likely you will be OK but not 100%.
Also if you cant get the SLI ribbon cable (I suggest some reasearch) ut as I recall, it is the same as the twisted part of a floppy drive ribbon cable but much shorter.
I was really up on my SLI geekieness a long time ago, but a lot has faded from memory over time
SLI can do 1024x768 at the same performance as a single card @ 800x600. One card handles odd frames while the other handles even ones.
I think there was some way to hook up 4 in some kind of SLI configuration, but it required a special controler board and never hit the mainstream market. Someone was showing a picture of it recently. I think it was limited to 1024x768x16 but it could do twice the FPS that standard SLI could.
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Reznor007
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Knuckles said:anyway, I will get both Diamond cards (since I like diamond cards, they are running faster/better than the others) 12MB in SLI
SLI also affects OpenGL and D3D. And technically, a single Voodoo2 can run at 1024x768, but you have to disable Z buffering.
Tagrineth
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Knuckles said:
Well, if SLI doesn't affect D3D, why does this option exist? (image should show highlight around "Disable Scanline Interleaving (SLI)" in Direct3D options)
It isn't just in the tweaker, it's in 3dfx's own tools as well. Also please explain to me why I know for a fact D3D games can go up to 1024x768 with Voodoo2 SLI, but not with a single Voodoo2.
Don't even bother arguing with me. Seriously. I've been a part of the x3dfx community since it started, and I was part of the 'exclusive' inner group of 3dhq. I've probably forgotten more specs and details about 3dfx's chips than you know to begin with... <_<
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The Khan Artist
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Tagrineth said:
Tsk... have you ever heard of MesaFX? Now even the Voodoo 1 has full OpenGL 1.3 support. Soon to be OpenGL 1.5.
Tagrineth
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The Khan Artist said:
Well, to be honest I have WickedGL installed on this system right now, so I am more than able to run OpenGL games on my Obsidian2 right now... not that I'd want to with my Radeon.
D3D is totally out of the question, though, unless you can find the insanely rare 1.00.00 beta V2 Win2K drivers that actually hack and force the V2 to output 2D to a second monitor, as well as run D3D (no OGL though!) on that monitor!