chinny22 wrote:Is it possible to set your primary video card in BIOS (PCI rather then AGP)
Remember Windows 9x was for home market, and back in the late 90's no one was running 2 screens. Any duel screen support will be pretty basic at best much like its security.
Businesses may of start using multi screens but then they would be running NT flavour of windows which is why it probably has better duel screen support earlier on
Yeah, I know it. But you will not deny too that in Win98/ME the driver for second video card can be installed without any issues and in DXDIAG window there are available all feautures for all installed video adapters in the system. I note once again: the only problem is to redirect the game request to initialize current D3D session on not primary display. Please don't tell me it's impossible because there are a few games which offer to switch necessary video adapter in their own 3D setup and it is working great in Win98. But most of games (I may say almost all) haven't this option.
Primary video card in BIOS? Yes, I'm agree. And now think please, for choosing game which runs best on your AGP card you should reboot, enter BIOS setup, tune it, reboot, load OS. For choosing game which runs best on your PCI card you should reboot, enter BIOS setup, tune it, reboot, load OS. Good? Cose? I don't think so. And if the cards are both PCI? 😀
Jorpho wrote:Maybe you never saw instability, but you never saw two of them trying to use Direct3D at the same time either. Windows 9x was very permissive about what it allowed software to do. It would not surprise me if there were many drivers that were written under the assumption that the drivers could do certain things (like access particular memory addresses) because there couldn't possibly be any other driver doing the same thing at the same time
What??? Where did i say at the same time at least once? Do you really think that I mean a two cards work in one game simultaneously? ))))))) 🤣
UltimaPlayer12 wrote:you're better off running a completely separate computer for that reason.
Yes! It is a way! But unfortunately it is not decision too. I talk about one computer with two cards.
Jorpho wrote:Are you aware of almost how completely unreadable your posts are...?
Yes. It is because I don't speak English. Thanks for the absense of grammar mistakes at least.