VOGONS


First post, by cloverskull

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Hey friends, I have a Voodoo 1 4mb PCI card that I intended for a primarily DOS build. The CPU is a Pentium 233 MMX.

I also have a pair of Voodoo 2 PCI cards (12mb, 100mhz) currently homeless and was thinking about using all three of these cards in my build.

My question is, is this doable? I've read some threads that suggest it is hypothetically doable but I haven't seen anyone report doing it with passthrough mode working.

Ideally, my setup would be:

2d -> passthru cable -> v1 -> passthru cable -> v2 (first card in SLI) -> passthru cable -> v2 (second card in SLI) -> VGA cable to monitor

I'd love to know if this is possible and if there are any odd configuration things to consider. I have the hardware, I'd like to use it, in spite of whether or not it's "worth it" - so please if you have feedback about getting this to work and/or if it's just impossible, I'd love to hear it, but I'd rather avoid the "just use the v2, why do you need this card, etc" comments. I appreciate it!

Reply 1 of 5, by Garrett W

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Yes, it is doable but it's a headache. I'm not sure why you want to go through with this.
Passthrough cables are the least of your worries, though you are complicating this a bit more than needed, you don't need another passthrough cable on the 2nd Voodoo 2 card, it communicates with the first one. Whichever card gets drivers installed last is the one that will be used by default. Afterwards, you can engage either card by dropping the appropriate Glide, D3D or OpenGL DLL (or OVL if you are trying to play DOS 3Dfx games) on the same folder as the executable.

Reply 3 of 5, by DarcTangent

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Hello,
I have done this I had to put the V2s in slots 5 and 6 and the V1 in any other free PCI slot to get it to work. Maybe install the V1 and then get one V2 running in your last slot and then see what other slots it will work in. If it works in two slots, then install the V2s in those two slots. I tested with the two 3DFX versions of Tomb Raider 1 and depending on which version it would start the correct Voodoo card. Let us know how it works out!