#1725740 - 03/24/05 08:57 AM
Retro machine question
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OK then, after failing to get LB2 running, even after finding a voodoo3 AGP card I'm thinking of building a retro PC specifically for LB2. My question is: Which 3dfx graphics card should I be looking out for? PCI or AGP?? When I played LB2 first time round, I had a Matrox Millennium 2 AND an Orchid Righteous, would it be best ti try and source these two cards???
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#1725742 - 03/24/05 06:53 PM
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My Voodoo3 AGP renders LB2 perfectly on my AMD K6-2 300 mhz machine. Maybe the card is bad, or there is some other problem?
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#1725743 - 03/24/05 07:58 PM
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TNT2 and 2 Voodoo2 12Meg cards in SLI was what I had back in the day. It was considered top-end and ran LB2 perfectly. I may have one of the Voodoo2's laying around here, plus an SLI cable (or 2). I could be talked into parting with it pretty cheap, but E-bay would be a good bet, too. Make sure you get the 12M Voodoo2's, if I remember correctly you needed those for SLI.
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#1725744 - 03/25/05 04:32 AM
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Correction: I seem to remember you needed 12M Voodoo 2's for 800X600 resolution, the 8M may (or may not) run in SLI mode. Find out for sure before you buy them.
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#1725746 - 04/03/05 01:24 AM
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Just an update really, snatched an old PIII, 733MHz PC from work. Have put 256MB RAM in it and have procured a Matrox Millemium G200 and TWO Voodoo 2 3Dfx cards for SLI from ebay...total cost including Longbow 2 and manual...£36.00 Just waiting for the voodoo's to arrive now. By the way, is it just me, or does everyone who goes on ebay to sell stuff end up buying???
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#1725747 - 04/03/05 12:26 PM
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housequake why exactly couldnt you get lb2 running ? did you limit the memory to 366mb ??
actually it was 2 v2's to run in 1024x768 1 v2 would only do 800x600 unless the game didnt use the z buffer like novalogic's f-16 + mig29 the v1 would only do 640x480 or 800x600 if the game didnt use the z buffer you can mix 8mb + 12mb voodoo's but they would be seen as 2 8mb cards
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#1725749 - 04/04/05 10:08 AM
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what wrapper you using ??? this one http://www.zeckensack.de/glide/ chroma keying is not supported on mx hardware try openglide
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