HELP! Voodoo 2 1000 Tech question (kinda a stumper) please

[SLEEPER5555]

ok my comp is a celery 600 with 256mb ram and a mother board with built on intel grafix. Can a voodoo 2 be used with an on board grafix set, i don't see why it couldn't because the voodoo 2 is passive! So here is the problem, I put it in and i still get the same grafix performance (which is not ba at all for built on grafix) I installed the latest drivers (d/l em from 3dfx.com) but also i dont have the full original disk with andy other software that it may have on it (is there anything else on there that is needed?)

 

[Weyoun]

Do you possibly have the name of the motherboard or chipset you have? the i740 is roughly about the performance of a voodoo 2, and it has been a popular choice for an integrated solution, the i815 chipset included (ASUS CUSL2, etc) Go into the device manager and check the name of your display adapter. Post it here once you've got it If it's an i740, this is basically what you ought to expect, so it might be wise to sell the v2 for a few $$$$ and get a new grahpics card

As for the question.... I've setup a V2 on an integrated video chipset, just use the passthrough cable from the monitor port to the v2 and monitor cable to the v2 as usual. Works like a charm

Hope this helps

 

[SLEEPER5555]

it says intel 82810 Grafikz controller with 4mb shared, while the voodoo has 12mb shouldn't just that make the voodoo better?

 

[Weyoun]

*shudders* you have an i810? Ok, the core integrated on your mobo is an i740, i think this should provide a decent comparison for you. Slip the voodoo2 back in and run some benchmarks for us to show us what kind of performance you are getting with either graphics card, so we have some hard numbers to work with

Now, RAM doesnt necessarily make a video card better. RAM is only used for textures to be stored locally on the video card (so the core has faster access to them) and for the frame buffer, for full frames to be temporarily stored. Say, the difference between an 8MB and 12MB V2 is 4MB more texture space on the 12MB, but it still can't render at any higher than 800x600 without adding another card (SLI).

 

[SLEEPER5555]

Weyoun - first off thanks for your help, that link you posted shows the voodoo 2 to be much more powerful than my intel chip but i am not seeing the difference, I have been using Quake 3 arena as the "TEST" and i am starting to wonder if that is the problem, i tried to reinstall still with no luck! Anyway is there somthing within Quake 3 tht i should be doin to get it going?

 

[Weyoun]

Not a problem, I'm glad to help

Ok, fire up quake3 and change the settings to what you would play in, but make sure both video cards can take the settings, say just 512 or 640. now, go to the console, and type:
timedemo 1
demo demo001.dm3

for both cards. This will play the first q3 demo as fast as the computer can hack it, and it will time it. At the end of the demo, hit the console key and a score will come up based on how long it took to finish the demo (total frames/time taken = average FPS). Note down both scores and publish them here.

If they turn out to be the same, then i honestly have no idea. Maybe you want to try the WickedGL drivers for your V2?

 

[SLEEPER5555]

ok i figured it out myself, to make a long story short it was not setup properly, now i am noticing much smother textures, it just seems to have made it more jittery than it was before!

 

[Weyoun]

hrm, ok then not much i can really do in that department, sorry d00d