I have a Winfast S680 or something to that nature.
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wrote:What brand is the card pictured by Pingaloka? I am trying to find a GX2 that is on PCI, to pair with my Voodoo1. Anyone have suggested ebay terms to look for besides "gx2"? Sometimes people do not post auctions based the text they see on a chip.
This card might be somewhat difficult to find.
In my experience GX2 cards are much less common that most other ViRGE cards (325/DX/GX, Trio3D, Trio3D/2X - even VX are more common).
Additionally GX2 is AGP capable so I'd expect most cards using this chip to be AGP and not PCI.
For ebay I'd probably put
virge -dx -325 -nitro
in the search box, check "Include description" and sift through the results manually.
GX2 yields mostly several cards with "GX 2MB RAM while 357 (code number of GX2) yields nothing.
thinking of upgrading from a gx to gx2
since the PCI version is kind of scarce i'm assuming an AGP gx2 in a pentium II DOS/Win 95 setup wouldn't really cause any issues.
I was running a Stealth 3D 4000 in my p200mmx Win95 machine. It was perfectly fine for Windows use but I was getting VBE issues when trying to run DOS games. The S3 Vesa apps either wouldn't recognize it or would simply not run with this card. This affected a few games, Duke3D, TIE Fighter are the ones I can remember.
Also, no Terminal Velocity, so that was a bust.
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wrote:I was running a Stealth 3D 4000 in my p200mmx Win95 machine. It was perfectly fine for Windows use but I was getting VBE issues when trying to run DOS games. The S3 Vesa apps either wouldn't recognize it or would simply not run with this card. This affected a few games, Duke3D, TIE Fighter are the ones I can remember.
Also, no Terminal Velocity, so that was a bust.
interesting, the GX2 uses the same 2d core as the s3 trio right?
were the issues caused just because of the gx2 chip or because its on an AGP bus in DOS?
AGP or PCI doesn't really matter in DOS. Cards basically work as faster PCI cards (AGP 1x can theoretically transfer data two times as fast as PCI, AGP 2x four times and so on).
IIRC ViRGE chips don't support any actual AGP-only features anyway. (Like 3dfx, Rendition, ...)
