First post, by mombarak
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I have browsed through the forum and the internet a bit and you can find a lot of topics saying "Voodoo 2 + AGP 2D card - no problem". I have a P2-350 with a Voodoo 2 SLI (2x 8MB) and Windows 98SE with the unofficial SP. Unfortunately I have a 2MB Matrox 2D PCI card and it seems I am running into some shortages when trying to play games:
- Monkey Island 4 - cannot initialize my device - when using force GL (monkey4.exe -gl) it works but super-slow - I guess this is the 2MB Matrox card trying to survive ...
- Non-Voodoo mode: Quake 1 - slow-ish when running 640x480 in DOS, even with FASTVID from Phils page and youtube videos - Vooodoo GL mode: very fast and great.
- No one lives forever 1 - missing textures (all is white) and when I disable lightning it shows textures but glass looks weird and some graphics errors
- Dungeon Keeper Direct3D seems to run slow-ish (I am checking if there is a 3DFX patch as well)
So now plan to either buy a Matrox 4 MB PCI card or a Riva TNT2 AGP card.
Now circling back to the actual question:
For the Riva AGP card, I never found one answer in all the topics above how Windows picks the right cards if you have AGP + Voodoo SLI as a setup. I totally understand that if you play Quake Glide for example, it uses the Voodoo 2 SLI. Also other games which start with the 3DFX logo, will probably chose the Voodoo.
But, as an example, No one lives forever. If only shows Direct 3D - DirectX 7 as a graphic option and primary display driver. I selected the Direct 3D option and it runs good, except the graphic errors. Since I doubt this will use my 2MB Matrox card, I would assume it picks the Voodoo in combination with DirectX because it has no Glide driver available. If I now have a TNT2 next to the Voodoo, how would I select the card then?
In HalfLife I would assume if I select Direct3D, it would use the TNT and if I select the 3DFX Mini Driver it would select the Voodoo.
I read that in case of 2 Voodoo cards in a system, you place the glide files in the directory of the game. But in the above case it does not seem to make sense. I hope the question above makes sense. My goal is to always pick the right card for the job (game) and not let the TNT for example take over where the Voodoo 2 could shine.
Thanks a lot, or like the marine biologist says: Best fishes.
