As I recall, before adding the 2nd card, I had to race at 800x600, but
hotlapping was still doable at 1024x768.
With a PII 266 though, my opinion is that you'd be better off with a faster
processor, although the V2's are pretty cheap nowadays. Afaster processor will
give your system a better overall boost, not just for GPL.
The 266 is hardly fast enough to 'feed' one Voodoo card. So adding a second
won't make much of a difference. However, if you pop in a very affordable
Celeron 466 that would really help your game.
Bye,
Leo
ROTFLMAO! :)
Oh, and from what I know about SLI'ed V2s you won't see any significant
framerate improvement, but rather you'll be able to choose 1024x768 resolution
over 800x600. At least that was the only advantage you'd see in the Quake and
Half-Life -type games back when V2s were all the rage. I'm not exactly sure
about Papyrus' racing sims.
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Andre
>> How effective is adding a second diamond monster II so I can run in SLI?
>> Will it compensate for my 'antique' PII266 or is the only choice to go to a
>> faster machine. I get 36 fps with reasonable graphics now when practicising
>> but back of full grid it drops into ***s.
>> Tony
(BTW: Don't be put off by the fact that it is a Celeron; using both
Wintune 97 and SiSoft Sandra 99, both my PII (an overclocked 350 - runs at
466) and my Celeron (300a - 450) perform the exact same, it just matters
what the CPU speed. I imagine if I could make them both run at the exact
same core speed, they would be really hard to differentiate...)
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