subhuman@xgtx wrote:also, doesn't support it? I made a report with rivatuner and it displays this:
Well, I read a bit into this and it seems that nvidia disables SBA by default in the graphics cards BIOS, specifically because it is known that SBA causes problems in combination with VIA chipsets.
So the Forceware driver reports that SBA is not supported.
But as you wrote it seems that SBA can be forced on with Rivatuner f.e. (I will try this myself later)
I have not found information about the bare hardware support of the chip itself for SBA. Someone has a table maybe?
Regardless of this, most of the sites state that enabling SBA shows only a insignificant performance increase but is often the reason for stability problems. So the general recommendation is to leave it disabled.
Some general notes about the Geforce2. Remarkable was that the performance increased considerably while the power consumption dropped in comparison to the Geforce256. Also TnL really helped to gain a performance step on low CPU systems.
Geforce2MX was/is the most successful series from Nvidia, though it is a different chip with DVC/TwinView.
btw: I think that Wikipedia says that GF2GTS / Pro / Ultra is Twinview capable is wrong, it is a GF2MX only feature.