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Re: GPL, dual video cards?

3 posts by 3 people · 12 Apr 2000 - 12 Apr 2000 22:37 UTC

Mark Stahl 12 Apr 2000#278367
well, you could pick up a voodoo2 (PCI) for pretty cheap..... otherwise the opengl patch is the way to go. good luck.
Hammer 12 Apr 2000#278466
Well, I just got blown away. I got a new PC recently and went away from 3dfx, getting a GeForce card. In N3, for example, it looks fine on the software renderer (non-3dfx). So today I loaded up GPL on this new machine for the 1st time... IT'S FUGLY!! It's nowhere near 3dfx quality grahpics. In fact, I find near unplayable. The highest resolution offered is 640x480... it's real fugly. What can I do?? Should I take my Voodoo3 out of my old machine and run it in the new one, giving up my GeForce for other games?? Can I run both in the same machine, telling GPL to use the 3dfx while having other games use the GeForce? I don't know how to do that, even if it's possible. That would require 2 AGP slots instead of one, right off that seems a problem to me. Or, I don't know what I'm talking about :) Anyone have any advice?? Even an URL for education purposes I would be grateful for. I'm stumped. I can tell I'm not going to be playing GPL on this GeForce card :( thanks all, I'm hurtin for a GPL fix. hammer2k Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.
SKurj 12 Apr 2000 22:37 UTC#278480
Look deep into this newsgroup To use Geforce u need to run GPL in OpenGl for which u need a patch and must make some tweaks to the geforce. I believe u can dl the Opengl patch from papy.com, but as far as tweakin it to run good, u gonna have to look down this list. You aren't the first. M Hammer wrote:
Quoted text (27 lines)> > Well, I just got blown away. I got a new PC recently and went away > from 3dfx, getting a GeForce card. In N3, for example, it looks fine > on the software renderer (non-3dfx). > > So today I loaded up GPL on this new machine for the 1st time... IT'S > FUGLY!! It's nowhere near 3dfx quality grahpics. In fact, I find near > unplayable. The highest resolution offered is 640x480... it's real > fugly. > > What can I do?? Should I take my Voodoo3 out of my old machine and run > it in the new one, giving up my GeForce for other games?? Can I run > both in the same machine, telling GPL to use the 3dfx while having > other games use the GeForce? I don't know how to do that, even if it's > possible. That would require 2 AGP slots instead of one, right off > that seems a problem to me. Or, I don't know what I'm talking about :) > > Anyone have any advice?? Even an URL for education purposes I would be > grateful for. I'm stumped. I can tell I'm not going to be playing GPL > on this GeForce card :( > > thanks all, I'm hurtin for a GPL fix. > > hammer2k > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > Before you buy.

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