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nVidia & 3Dfx. - Are they compatible ?
Hi,
All this talk about 3Dfx make me remember my Voodoo 5500 AGP video card just recently gone to silicon heaven after many years of good service. Any way, I got a used Asus V8420 GeForce4 Ti4200 to replace it. The GForce4 works great with most of my "newer" games that the V5500 was unable to run (lack of T&L hardware and power). But I do dearly missed the V5500 because I am unable to play some of my favourite older flight sim that utilized Glide. Fortunately, I have a spare never used V5500 PCI version and I wonder is it possible to have the V5500 PCI along with the Ti4200 AGP? Is it pain-less to install and setup driver for both video card on the same system? My PC is dual boot of Win98SE purely for games and Win2K for non-gaming stuffs. My monitor has both BNC & D-Sub connector and can easily switch via a button. Please advise. Thanks. |
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Phil wrote:
Hi, All this talk about 3Dfx make me remember my Voodoo 5500 AGP video card just recently gone to silicon heaven after many years of good service. Any way, I got a used Asus V8420 GeForce4 Ti4200 to replace it. The GForce4 works great with most of my "newer" games that the V5500 was unable to run (lack of T&L hardware and power). But I do dearly missed the V5500 because I am unable to play some of my favourite older flight sim that utilized Glide. Fortunately, I have a spare never used V5500 PCI version and I wonder is it possible to have the V5500 PCI along with the Ti4200 AGP? Is it pain-less to install and setup driver for both video card on the same system? My PC is dual boot of Win98SE purely for games and Win2K for non-gaming stuffs. My monitor has both BNC & D-Sub connector and can easily switch via a button. Please advise. Thanks. I don't quite remember if the last sets of drivers were able to be installed side by side or not. I think there were some later "X Gamers" drivers, and I'll bet someone still hacks up a new set now and again. Check their release notes, see if they have any compatibility problems. I would think you'd use a passthrough normally, but if switching works for you, go ahead. But you might not need the Voodoo in there, there are several good Glide-wrappers out, some will even work in DOS (DOS emu in Windows). There was eVoodoo and another new one just came out a month or two ago. Check the usual emulation sites (ngemu.com and zophar.net) and maybe search through the archives of warp2search.net. |
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Which flight sim? If it's Red Baron 3D, check out
http://www.glidos.net/baron.html?lang=en Download the OpenGLide wrapper on that page for free. -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." "Phil" wrote in message m... Hi, All this talk about 3Dfx make me remember my Voodoo 5500 AGP video card just recently gone to silicon heaven after many years of good service. Any way, I got a used Asus V8420 GeForce4 Ti4200 to replace it. The GForce4 works great with most of my "newer" games that the V5500 was unable to run (lack of T&L hardware and power). But I do dearly missed the V5500 because I am unable to play some of my favourite older flight sim that utilized Glide. Fortunately, I have a spare never used V5500 PCI version and I wonder is it possible to have the V5500 PCI along with the Ti4200 AGP? Is it pain-less to install and setup driver for both video card on the same system? My PC is dual boot of Win98SE purely for games and Win2K for non-gaming stuffs. My monitor has both BNC & D-Sub connector and can easily switch via a button. Please advise. Thanks. |
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To answer the OP, yes the PCI 5500 will work along side the AGP Ti4200. I
have an extra system set up with Win98SE using both for a couple of my flight sims and a couple of racing sims that want to choke, barf, etc. anytime they get close to WinXP and/or a GeForce card. I just have to decide which card I want to use during boot-up and select it in the bios. Silvertip "First of One" wrote in message able.rogers.com... Which flight sim? If it's Red Baron 3D, check out http://www.glidos.net/baron.html?lang=en Download the OpenGLide wrapper on that page for free. -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." "Phil" wrote in message m... Hi, All this talk about 3Dfx make me remember my Voodoo 5500 AGP video card just recently gone to silicon heaven after many years of good service. Any way, I got a used Asus V8420 GeForce4 Ti4200 to replace it. The GForce4 works great with most of my "newer" games that the V5500 was unable to run (lack of T&L hardware and power). But I do dearly missed the V5500 because I am unable to play some of my favourite older flight sim that utilized Glide. Fortunately, I have a spare never used V5500 PCI version and I wonder is it possible to have the V5500 PCI along with the Ti4200 AGP? Is it pain-less to install and setup driver for both video card on the same system? My PC is dual boot of Win98SE purely for games and Win2K for non-gaming stuffs. My monitor has both BNC & D-Sub connector and can easily switch via a button. Please advise. Thanks. |
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"Phil" wrote in message
m... Please advise. Thanks. I was under the impression that the GeForceFX series has integrated some of 3dfx's old technology, but I also heard it wasn't done very well. Is any of this true? |
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