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Title: Radeon 9200SE 128 & two V2s
Post by: UffdaFeda on 19 May 2004, 01:57:22

FIRST POST - APOLOGIES FREELY GIVEN IF I'M IN THE WRONG PLACE!

I have a Radeon 9200SE 128MB PCI primary video card. I have installed two Diamond Monster 3D2 2x8MB PCI cards in SLI. I have followed the hardware install and FastVoodoo2 v4.0 Gold (XP) guidance listed elsewhere herein - PRECISELY. I have also intalled the Mesa_FX drivers.

I get no error messages (hey, I did something right!). But, SLI is not detected. I can only run in 640x480 mode. I can change refresh rates okay. When I check hardware, I see the FastVoodoo's (2) but no Voodoo cards per se.

I'm running this on an Athlon 1.8GHz with 512Mb RAM running Win XP.

Any help would be VERY welcome!

Title: Radeon 9200SE 128 & two V2s
Post by: dborca on 19 May 2004, 08:03:21

QuoteOriginally posted by UffdaFeda

I get no error messages (hey, I did something right!). But, SLI is not detected. I can only run in 640x480 mode. I can change refresh rates okay. When I check hardware, I see the FastVoodoo's (2) but no Voodoo cards per se.

OpenGL/Glide or DyrektEks? And how do you know SLI is not detected? AFAIK, V2 can go up to 800x600 w/o SLI: 800x600x(16/8)x(2+1) That is: 16bpp, double-buffered, depth-buffer).

Title: Radeon 9200SE 128 & two V2s
Post by: UffdaFeda on 19 May 2004, 09:18:35

Attempting Glide. DirectX 9.0b works fine. When I review the system info popup (FastVoodoo)it states that "Scanline Interleave: [is] Not Detected". I don't know how to alter screen size (I quite new to voodoo), but have managed to alter refresh rate using FastVoodoo tools/refresh_rate. The fifa patches don't seem to do anything.

Ive heard that voodoos and XP don't mix. Should I bag XP and try them in an older Win98 PC I have?

Title: Radeon 9200SE 128 & two V2s
Post by: dborca on 19 May 2004, 09:42:49

Try using the glide*.dll from the latest reference drivers. You should find those around here (or at falconfly.de). Ohwell, I have FastVoodoo lying on the HDD for a while now, but never found the time to give it a test... not to mention I'm using XP very seldom.

Title: Radeon 9200SE 128 & two V2s
Post by: amp_man on 19 May 2004, 10:32:20

The SLI not being detected is a known bug under XP, but the 640 thing seems odd. What game is it that you're using to test? Have you tried any other games?

Title: Radeon 9200SE 128 & two V2s
Post by: UffdaFeda on 21 May 2004, 04:14:37

Ditched XP. Pulled an old Win98 computer out of the closet and had things up and running in about 30 minutes. Thanks.

Oh, the game is Red Baron 3D

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