Re: Which graphics card for GP3?

How about voodoo3 2000 agp?? ------------------------------------ Webmaster Of Sim World 2000 Crashes and great shots Link - http://www.stas.net/simworld2000/ Proud member of RacingSims.com

Sitting here in Bangkok; hoping that my order from the UK will be in the post tomorrow, I am planning my usual hardware upgrade that accompanies every Crammond release (the man has cost me a fortune!). It is clear my Voodoo2 will not hack it; may not even work. The choice seems to be a GeForce2 or a Voodoo5 or a what? Recommendations welcome; thanks. Hugh

Apologies to everyone who has already read this. But with my V5 I have to turn off one of the chips to get GP3 to run acceptably. If that sounds a bit drastic, it's not, it's just a setting in the '3dfx Tools' control panel. If the V5 is running with just one chip, GP3 is extremely fast, but with both chips it goes only half as fast. I know that probably sounds strange but it's true. I've also had confirmation from 3dfx that there is some kind of problem there, although they wouldn't say whether it's just a simple driver bug or a design flaw. Also they didn't sound particularly bothered to do anything about it. The problem also occurs, although to a much much smaller degree, with GPL, Thief and Superbike 2000. These games are a few fps faster with only one chip than running with both. Based on that I would say if you are buying a GP3 card then get the GeForce 2 GTS.

a little weak... but if ya can't afford geforce or v5, good card to get u by, just don't expect to crank the gfx in GP3 Crystal Robbinson wrote:

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> How about voodoo3 2000 agp?? > > ------------------------------------ > Webmaster Of Sim World 2000 Crashes and great shots > Link - http://www.stas.net/simworld2000/ > > Proud member of RacingSims.com

Well, I don't know for sure, since I took my V3 out when I bought the new V5, but the same problem certainly can't occur, because the V3 isn't an SLI board. I'm sure it will run to the full potential of the board. Actually there's been a few posts here recently from people getting a strange triangle effect on the track, and apparently it is fixed with the latest drivers.