Nimbus

One APG and one PCI?

I've got a Nvidia TNT2 in the APG slot at the moment, and one of my favorite games has support for Voodoo only. I don't want to take out the TNT2 and have seen a Voodoo3 PCI for sale. Can I install them both? Will it cause any problems with Win98SE?

Ta

Neil Smalley

Why not buy a card such as the ATI 9000 pro which will do dual monitor support AND be quicker than a cronky old TNT?

Nimbus

Because the game I want to play only supports Voodoo. I know it seems like a lot to do for an old game, but it really is great. I just want to experiance the improvments that they added for 3dfx.

Neil Smalley

Get an old PC for 200 quid and buy a new graphics card, mr skinflint

I used to run an AGP ATI all in wonder pro and 2XSLI'd voodoo 2's on my old P2 400. I just connected the monitor to the Voodoo 2 and forgot about the ATI card. Worked just fine.

Nimbus

Naaa, I don't want to spend any money on an old PC. I can pick up a Voodoo3 for about 15 quid. Anyway, I need to save up to upgrade my kit for video edditing (new second HD, WinXP and a DVD writer)

Unless someone has an old Voodoo3 they want to donate...

stevencotton

I don't know that much about Windows really but I do seem to remember seeing somewhere you could have hardware profiles (it was win2k pro), maybe you can play with that? I didn't look into it I must admit because I was looking for something else, but I took it to mean you could have various different hardware setups on the same machine, with some stuff disabled/some not etc. Anyone know any more?

Steve.

P1 Enthusiast

Nimbus hold that thought, mate is looking to buy my gfx card off me, his old card is a voodoo 3! Will see what i can do for ya

DominicA

yes, you can run both cards.....

Nimbus

Domanic,

Thanks!


P1,

Cheers! Let me know what happens

andrewdelvard

Just out of interest, what game is it?

HHxx

I run 2 cards in one of my pc's, a agp card and a pci card. But this is under XP.

98 is supposed to support multimonitors. But I think if you want to play games on a certain card, then you have to tell windows to change your primary display to the other card....

H

Nimbus

Andrew,

The game is I-War A very cool space sim game. It's been out a while, but I really like it.


HHxx,

Thanks for the tip. I guess the only way to see if it works is to give it a go.

Nimbus

Looks like I may not need a new card after all. I've done a bit of searching and found some "wrappers" that fool the game into thinking the card I have is a Voodoo one. I'll have to try this on my home PC to see if it actually works

Andrewza

Bloody hell, I thought I was about the only person to play that game, was great fun, even in software rendering. You played I-war2 (Edge of Chaos)?

Mr Footlong

iTrader: (7)

Nimbus, the wrappers whilst being pretty cool back in the day and possibly nowadays too, can take a pretty serious performance hit, especially on an older card like that. Why don't you consider killing 2 birds with one stone?

Get a nice card at a bargain price which completely stomps your tnt into submission and then run the wrapper on that? Way less performance hit.

Just saying because I stumbled acros this on special offer today:

http://www.scoobynet.co.uk/bbs/threa...mName=Computer

Hope helps,

Cheers,

Nick

Nimbus

Andrew,

No, not played I-War 3 yet. Got the demo, but not really got into it.


Nick,

Unfortunalty, I can not get any of the wrappers I've found yet to work. Looks like I may have to try and get the actual card. Thanks for the link to the other AGP card, but I don't know if it will work on this either.


Oh well