I can't get anything higher than 800 x 600 with my Metabyte Voodoo 2 cards
(SLI). Am I doing something wrong? I have the 3dfx reference drivers (beta
7.0). I can get 1024 x 768 with my TNT card (Canopus).
Andre
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Before you buy.
2 x 12Mb Voodoo cards is still 12Mb video memory.
/petern
replace "dx" with "voodoo2" to read:
CARD_3Dfx Voodoo2 /M:voodoo2 /I
then run the 3DSetup.exe program again.
The only problem I saw was that some of the menu text are a little blurry and I
dont think "Fraps" frame rate check program will work in Glide.
Lutrell
>Encipherator
>> I can't get anything higher than 800 x 600 with
>my Metabyte Voodoo 2 cards
>> (SLI). Am I doing something wrong? I have the
>3dfx reference drivers (beta
>> 7.0). I can get 1024 x 768 with my TNT card
>(Canopus).
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
The FRAME BUFFER memory is doubled. It goes from 4 to 8, enabling
1024x768 with zbuffer. This is common knowledge. Why do you think
one V2 can't go up to 1024x768? The z-buffer and framebuffer shares
the same space, so there is only enough framebuffer in 4 megs to get
1024x768 if you turn off Z-buffer.
The available TEXTURE MEMORY is not doubled. Having 2 V2's still only
gives you 8 megs of texture memory, even though there is 16 megs
there, the texture memory is 'duplicated' i believe...
There may be a hack way to take advantage of the texture memory on the
2nd card, but no one's ever done it...
This may also be the reason why the "24 bit internal rendering" is
*DISABLED* when using SLI mode for 800x600 75 hz+, or 1024x768 ANY
refresh. Because one card's ramdac has to handle both loads. (see
the dejanews archive for the voodoo2 newsgroup about this problem).
Enabling 24bpp=1 (dont remember the exact environment variable) causes
hz at 1024x768 with 24bpp=1 causes *NO DISPLAY* or a scrambled screen.
This limitation may also have something to do with the texture memory
not being doubled. (again, because of the RAMDAC)
So you were only half wrong :/
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000 11:58:08 +0200, Peter Nilsson
gem of wisdom:
>>I can't get anything higher than 800 x 600 with my Metabyte Voodoo 2 cards
>>(SLI). Am I doing something wrong? I have the 3dfx reference drivers (beta
>>7.0). I can get 1024 x 768 with my TNT card (Canopus).
>SLI doesn't provide double the video memory of a single card.
>It just splits the work between the two cards.
>2 x 12Mb Voodoo cards is still 12Mb video memory.
>/petern
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