I have a pair of V2's I've just put into a win98se PC. The two cards are
both reference designs, although from different manufacturers.
With the 3.02 drivers & the SLi cable hooked up, the info page in the
display properties says SLi detected, but it still only seems to use one
card.
I loaded 3DMark2000 to benchmark it and in the properties section it only
offers 800x600 maximum, and says I only have 8Mb texture memory not 16.
I've tried the mismatch DirectX7 drivers (and the GLide ones in gpl) from
falconfly's site (thanks!) but it doesn't make any difference.
Any suggestions? Both cards work fine on their own.
Malc.
"Malc" <malc@no-spam> wrote in message
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> I have a pair of V2's I've just put into a win98se PC. The two cards are
> both reference designs, although from different manufacturers.
>
> With the 3.02 drivers & the SLi cable hooked up, the info page in the
> display properties says SLi detected, but it still only seems to use one
> card.
>
> I loaded 3DMark2000 to benchmark it and in the properties section it only
> offers 800x600 maximum, and says I only have 8Mb texture memory not 16.
>
Hi,
have you tried running other games to see if you can get 1024x768? 3DMark
may not recognise the SLI configuration. And you do indeed only have 8MB of
texture memory with an SLI rig because the textures are duplicated with one
set on each card.
So the best test is simply to try and run Quake or something similar at
1024x768. Or go to Display Properties (right-click desktop background and
select Properties from the menu that appears) then click the Voodoo2 tab,
click on System Info and see if it says "Scanline Interleave: Detected!!!"
on the property sheet.
procerus
"procerus" <someone@no-spam> wrote in message
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> "Malc" <malc@no-spam> wrote in message
> news:Nq94b.2175$4L1.421417@no-spam
> > With the 3.02 drivers & the SLi cable hooked up, the info page in the
> > display properties says SLi detected, but it still only seems to use one
> > card.
> have you tried running other games to see if you can get 1024x768? 3DMark
> may not recognise the SLI configuration. And you do indeed only have 8MB
of
> texture memory with an SLI rig because the textures are duplicated with
one
> set on each card.
That sounds like a believable explanation, I'll go along with that ;-)
> So the best test is simply to try and run Quake or something similar at
> 1024x768. Or go to Display Properties (right-click desktop background and
> select Properties from the menu that appears) then click the Voodoo2 tab,
> click on System Info and see if it says "Scanline Interleave: Detected!!!"
> on the property sheet.
It does say detected, and I tried gpl (Grand Prix Legends) running GLide.
1024x768 was selectable, but when I went on track (the menus are 640x480) it
shows a perfect picture but completely frozen, like it's running 1 frame per
minute or something!
I guessed it was just a problem with my mismatched cards, it runs fine at
800x600 & 640x480, but no faster than with only one card in, or with
scanline disabled.
I tried re-installing the 3.02 drivers over the mismatch drivers (I had
previously installed the 3.02's alone, and adding the GLide & Dx7 mismatch
drivers gave no improvement) and now gpl will run at 1024x768, and
3dmark2000 runs at 1024 too, but just crashes part way through. Irritating
but I can live with it ;-)
One thing I noticed with only one card in was that in 3dmark2000 I could
select 1024 although it told me it was unsupported, but only with one frame
buffer, which gives a very flickery picture. I can choose 1024 with 3 frame
buffers now so I guess it must be working.
Thanks for you help ;-)
Malc.