Do NVIDIA cards and Vodoo 5 5500 work well together?

pidge · Post by **pidge** » Mon Nov 27, 2000 5:28 pm

I want to add a Voodoo 5 5500 PCI to my system to use my LCD panel as a secondary monitor. Any problems or conflicts with the drivers? Any problems I should know about? Thanks.

BongStalk · Post by **BongStalk** » Mon Nov 27, 2000 6:05 pm

Like we all have the luxury of multiple $300 video cards to do this with

pidge · Post by **pidge** » Mon Nov 27, 2000 10:23 pm

Excuse me Mr. "I have a Sony 24" monitor" Bongstalk.

BongStalk · Post by **BongStalk** » Mon Nov 27, 2000 10:37 pm

Oh THAT hurt. Nobody would know if you hadn't brought it up

Heheh.
Have you checked out the FSAA on that V5 yet? Pretty cool, but just too slow for my taste. I'm a frame rate junkie.
How are you going to run this? For 2D only, or 3D on a single monitor? Can you use different GL drivers for one app? That's gotta be ugly. What about dual PCI GF MX's? Would that work better?
Damnit... now you have me thinking of other money sucking projects! I hear it calling me... must... resist...

pidge · Post by **pidge** » Mon Nov 27, 2000 10:49 pm

Haven't tried it yet. I was playing starsiege tribes yesterday and it kind of sucked on an ATI AIW Radeon. So since I am going back to GF2, I thought of buying a second video card to run my LCD panel. I wanted the V5 for some games which run better in Glide. The Geforce 2 MX PCI boards are kind of hard to find or else I might get that. I saw Quake III Arena on Linux with two monitors and it looked awesome.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Tue Nov 28, 2000 8:05 am

3Dfx cards do not support multimonitor mode properly, so no I wouldn't try it (some people have gotten it to work with V3 cards, but I haven't heard anything about V5).

Besides, the second card won't work properly for 3D - you'll only be using it for the Windows desktop, so why spend the money on a V5 unless you need Glide?

Heck, find yourself an old ATI or Trident PCI card for $25 on the surplus sites, or check the trade board.

pidge · Post by **pidge** » Tue Nov 28, 2000 3:51 pm

Well, in the BIOS, I can always set the PCI card to run as the primary video card. I might just see if I can find a PCI Geforce 2 MX.

amos · Post by **amos** » Thu Nov 30, 2000 9:27 pm

They are both agp cards it will not work but nice try!

Biohazard · Post by **Biohazard** » Fri Dec 01, 2000 12:26 am

if you notice amos, he said PCI card. He knows what he's doing there

guste · Post by **guste** » Thu Dec 07, 2000 9:40 pm

I have nothing to add to the topic, but I just wanted to say I enjoyed Biohazard's comment to amos

Schwartz · Post by **Schwartz** » Thu Dec 07, 2000 9:57 pm

Yeah they work. I have a Geforce DDR and a V5 5500 PCI in my PC at work on Windows 2000. This is at work so I haven't done any real gaming but for regular things they work fine together. I did run FAAK2 on it once and I think I was able to switch between the two cards with no problems. It was a while ago and I don't remeber having problems so that is why I say "I think so".

Scooter · Post by **Scooter** » Fri Dec 08, 2000 6:06 am

That would be one schweeeet setup there <b>Pidge</b>.
Best of both worlds..=)

Overkill is everything <b>FP</b>, that's what seprates the PCAbusers from the rest of the crowd.

Frost · Post by **Frost** » Fri Dec 08, 2000 6:18 pm

Bongstalk: Is that a trinitron??? You lucky...

Frost.

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