voodoo vs rendition?? HELP

Hope you can tell me some help here. I am looking to run nascar and games like mtm, cart, flight simulators... Since only nascar 9of games I use anyway) uses the rendition? (confused here) based cards. I have a 2 mb matrox millenium (original). Nascar2 is probably as it can get for now... Unless, if rend cards are low price now, do they support the directx enough to just get one rendition chip based addon card, and see better performance on mtm and other direx stuff at all? I could entertain some improvement here, doesnt have to be THE VERY BEST!! I mean I have some money to play with but not Bunches where I'd go buy 3 new cards for my system just for games ya understand... OR is it, that it just wont do 3dfx games like MTM, Cart etc....? Has anyone tried or seen matrox's m3D would this be my more reasonable option? at least cart and mtm would run much beter? Any help, thanks

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> Hope you can tell me some help here. I am looking to run nascar and games > like mtm, cart, flight simulators... > Since only nascar 9of games I use anyway) uses the rendition? (confused > here) based cards. I have a 2 mb matrox millenium (original). Nascar2 is > probably as it can get for now... Unless, if rend cards are low price now, > do they support the directx enough to just get one rendition chip based > addon card, and see better performance on mtm and other direx stuff at all? > I could entertain some improvement here, doesnt have to be THE VERY BEST!! > I mean I have some money to play with but not Bunches where I'd go buy 3 new > cards for my system just for games ya understand... > OR is it, that it just wont do 3dfx games like MTM, Cart etc....? > Has anyone tried or seen matrox's m3D would this be my more reasonable > option? at least cart and mtm would run much beter? > Any help, thanks

Stinger, this is sounding to me that you need some pointing in the right direction. Here is what I recommend to my clients; junk the old 2meg card and first order of business is a Intergraph Intense 3d 100 4meg Rendition card ($100.) This will allow you to drive the Papyrus sims and give you pretty good all around 2d performance for all games.There are lots of new cards coming out but for a hundred bucks you get quite a bit of bang for your buck. Then later when you can afford it install a 3dfx card alongside the Rendition. That's the exact combo that I run in my own machine and lots of client's have big grin's too! All the best, Mike Davis -- Michael S. Davis Creative Media-Works Computer/Audio/Video Convergance http://www.creativemedia-works.com "From Creative Minds spring Creative Solutions."

On Tue, 11 Nov 1997 09:58:42 -0800, "Mike \"LongHorn\" Davis"

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>> Hope you can tell me some help here. I am looking to run nascar and games >> like mtm, cart, flight simulators... >> Since only nascar 9of games I use anyway) uses the rendition? (confused >> here) based cards. I have a 2 mb matrox millenium (original). Nascar2 is >> probably as it can get for now... Unless, if rend cards are low price now, >> do they support the directx enough to just get one rendition chip based >> addon card, and see better performance on mtm and other direx stuff at all? >> I could entertain some improvement here, doesnt have to be THE VERY BEST!! >> I mean I have some money to play with but not Bunches where I'd go buy 3 new >> cards for my system just for games ya understand... >> OR is it, that it just wont do 3dfx games like MTM, Cart etc....? >> Has anyone tried or seen matrox's m3D would this be my more reasonable >> option? at least cart and mtm would run much beter? >> Any help, thanks >Stinger, > this is sounding to me that you need some pointing in the right >direction. Here is what I recommend to my clients; junk the old 2meg >card and first order of business is a Intergraph Intense 3d 100 4meg >Rendition card ($100.) This will allow you to drive the Papyrus sims and >give you pretty good all around 2d performance for all games.There are >lots of new cards coming out but for a hundred bucks you get quite a bit >of bang for your buck. Then later when you can afford it install a 3dfx >card alongside the Rendition. That's the exact combo that I run in my >own machine and lots of client's have big grin's too! > All the best, Mike Davis

My hardware knowledge is marginal at best. Can you run a 3dfx card along with a rendition?