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Are my Voodoo 2's being detected as SLI?

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First post, by fsmith2003

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I have two Diamond Monster 2's in SLI plugged into my Asus P2B with a Pentium II 450mhz CPU. I am using the Diamond Monster 2 drivers that came on the cd included in the box with the cards. Each card is a 12MB card. When I go to my setting, after right-clicking on the desktop and going to the Monster 2 tab at the top of the properties window, and choose "system info" it is showing that Scan-line Interleave is Detected. However it is still only showing my total texture memory as 8MB and frame buffer memory as 4MB. Shouldn't this be doubled in SLI or is this what its supposed to say still? I was under the assumption that it would now say 16MB and 8MB respectively.

Reply 1 of 5, by meljor

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Total texture memory should say 16mb. Try another slot or maybe another driver.

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Reply 2 of 5, by fsmith2003

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meljor wrote:

Total texture memory should say 16mb. Try another slot or maybe another driver.

Yes I have tried that still same results. Used reference, diamond and fastvoodoo drivers. Wonder why it is saying it does detect SLI but the memory amounts are still the same though?

Reply 3 of 5, by fsmith2003

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Nevermind I spoke too soon. I have been constantly trying different drivers and version. Ive finally found one that worked for me. It was the reference driver v 3.02.02 that did the trick! (SOLVED)

Reply 4 of 5, by derSammler

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meljor wrote:

Total texture memory should say 16mb. Try another slot or maybe another driver.

Shouldn't it be the other way around? Texture memory won't increase, as both cards still need all the textures locally. Frame buffer memory however should increase.

Reply 5 of 5, by Gamecollector

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8 MiB framebuffer and 16 MiB texture memory.

Asus P4P800 SE/Pentium4 3.2E/2 Gb DDR400B,
Radeon HD3850 Agp (Sapphire), Catalyst 14.4 (XpProSp3).
Voodoo2 12 MB SLI, Win2k drivers 1.02.00 (XpProSp3).

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