I will soon have 2 12 mb Voodoo 2s in SLI mode running on my computer. The computer will be a Athlon 3200+ with the DFI Lanparty NF2 ultra-b mobo. What kind of performance can I expect from these things? My main video card is a Geforce2 GTS 64mb. I'm not really doing it for performance, but for the 1337 factor at LANs.
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Voodoo 2 1000 SLI
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I wouldn't expect any performance actually. The last official drivers for the V2 had serious problems with Athlon systems. The crash on startup type of problem. There were some hacked drivers released, but they only took advantage of 1 card. Don't know if that is still the case.
Well I was on the voodoofiles.com website, and I was recomended an XP driver (3rd party, of course) that was AMD compatable, and did support SLI. "Fast Voodoo2 4.0" But like, I havent used this card since I had my P166 MMX. But when/if (more when) I get it running, what should I expect? Suppose I had windows 98 or somthing 3dfx supported... Just raw figures?
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With minimal driver support and no optimizations whatsoever for any games made relatively recently, I wouldn't expect much of anything at all.
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Well that would be silly since they don't have enough performance for any of the newer games. Maybe on an extra "nostalgia" machine.
You'll probably could still gain some performance in older Glide games like Deus Ex, Unreal, UT, and a few others that were heavily CPU dependant. (now that I think about it I can only think of Unreal based games that would benefit haha)
There's some Glide GFX plugins for emulators that might like the added CPU cycles still.
There's some Glide GFX plugins for emulators that might like the added CPU cycles still.
Diablo II looks pretty good on a Voodoo board.
After all, that was the hardware it was intended to run on - Its interesting seeing how the cards render the game differently. Naturally, I prefer my Ti500, but there are a few effects (it has been some time, but I assure you... they are there...) where the 3dfx card seems to render correctly, or incorrectly... Depending on who you ask.
Either way, why not, if you've got the PCI slots, which we all do... I'd kind of like a matched set for this rig when I move on to an AthlonXP or something.
After all, that was the hardware it was intended to run on - Its interesting seeing how the cards render the game differently. Naturally, I prefer my Ti500, but there are a few effects (it has been some time, but I assure you... they are there...) where the 3dfx card seems to render correctly, or incorrectly... Depending on who you ask.
Either way, why not, if you've got the PCI slots, which we all do... I'd kind of like a matched set for this rig when I move on to an AthlonXP or something.
