rec.autos.simulators

I am now the proud owner of some fresh money and about to upgrade
my graphics set up.

I currently have a diamond stealth 2mb vram.

I am thinking of purchasing the diamond monster 3d to sit alongside my
current card.   Not knowing a great deal about all the fine side of
graphics
with 2 cards, can anyone tell me if this setup would work well with ICR2
and GP2.   I also play other games such as Quake, Commanche and Flying
Corps.
Would this setup improve their frame rate also and would I be able to
get
24 bit true colour.

Also, would it be worth scrapping my diamond idea and going for a matrox
2 card with  4mb of wram or even waiting for the Hercules thriller 3d
card that I have read about on this newsgroup.

Any help would be appreciated by all you experts out there in the racing
world.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Gary Young
Stavanger, Norway

I have a Diamond Monster, but I tried running both Flying Corps and
the Mechwarrior: Mercenaries patch on my Sierra Screamin' 3D.
Both were much slower than on the Monster (Mercenaries suffers
slowdown even on the Monster when there are multiple mechs onscreen).

As much as I liked the Rendition versions of Indycar and Nascar2, that
is all I can recommend the Rendition cards for.
In my experience, the 3DFX cards do everything else better.

Since you've waited this long,  you may be ahead to stick it out
another couple of months. New chipsets are due out soon from both
Rendition and 3DFX.

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Quake will benefit greatly from GLQuake, Flying Corps has 3D acceleration
via the 3dfx (others?), but I don't know how well.  Check out
csipg.flight-sim if you haven't already.

That is pretty much a net consensus.

Yes, the Rendition Verite 2200 is soon to be released.  Will it work with
ICR2 and N2?  I assumed it would, but I've read otherwise.