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Reply #75 - 09.01.05 at 10:46:49

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All I have is the single board, the "daughterboards" are just PCB for the power wiring. No doubt to keep prying fingers away from the power connectors while running since a single 8164 draws 30 amps on the core voltage line.

There also was options for hardware monitoring, I don't have any of those pieces.

This is what I mean Cheesy

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gamma742 God Member Offline 3Dfx Gamer Posts: 1668 San Diego, CA USA Gender:	Re: TIME TO PARTY!!!!!!!!!! HEAVY METAL!! Reply #76 - 09.01.05 at 20:46:27 Gary does yours have the flat panel connectors?
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: TIME TO PARTY!!!!!!!!!! HEAVY METAL!! Reply #77 - 09.01.05 at 23:09:47 Quote: Gary does yours have the flat panel connectors? No- The 8164 shown is of very unusual configuration, I have seen nothing like it mentioned in the manuals.
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gamma742 God Member Offline 3Dfx Gamer Posts: 1668 San Diego, CA USA Gender:	Re: TIME TO PARTY!!!!!!!!!! HEAVY METAL!! Reply #78 - 10.01.05 at 05:10:18 It looks pretty Cool! But also look like it will take up 4 slots.
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: TIME TO PARTY!!!!!!!!!! HEAVY METAL!! Reply #79 - 11.01.05 at 16:01:31 Bad news- No direct X rendering titles for Mercury! None of the V2 drivers support Direct X under NT or 2000, and I mean NONE. Even the 3dfx beta reference drivers (just glide or opengl)
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Reply #80 - 11.01.05 at 19:33:34

Not even the weirdo 1.00.00b driver which doesn't support passthrough and has no glide or OpenGL support? ???

I've got DirectX titles that will only run on my 200SBi under Windows 98SE because they can't cope with my primary card's 256MB memory (6800 GTS). The Organic Art screensaver, which Microsoft actually distributed for a while, is one!

But a Mercury's never going to run on cranky old DOS-based operating systems.

I envy you with your experimentation although it must be frustrating sometimes.

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Reply #81 - 11.01.05 at 22:14:42

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Not even the weirdo 1.00.00b driver which doesn't support passthrough and has no glide or OpenGL support? ???

I just did a quick sweep of the general V2 drivers available on 3dfxzone, all of them state Glide or OpenGL only.

If you were building a non-original system it would be no big deal, just install a GF2 for the main card. An orignal Mercury system only has a 2D Cirrus Logic on board however, limits my options Wink

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But a Mercury's never going to run on cranky old DOS-based operating systems.

I envy you with your experimentation although it must be frustrating sometimes.

Just NT and 2000 so far, though I have not tried under 98 (other issues raise their ugly head under Win9x)

Sometimes it's fun (when you can get something working!) other times it's a PITA (now why doesn't this work?!)

Like Descent 3 for example- The game hooks into something that tells it a glide board is installed, I have not found out just what yet and still can't get it to work under NT.

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FalconFly YaBB Administrator Offline 3dfx Archivist Posts: 2445 5335N 00745E Gender:	Re: TIME TO PARTY!!!!!!!!!! HEAVY METAL!! Reply #82 - 11.01.05 at 22:47:20 Well, 3dfxzone just doesn't have the "right" Driver, that's it Check the Archive and read the ReadMe File of the Win2k V1.00.00b Driver, if Win2000 is installed. Requires a dirty workaround and imposes several limitations, but there, the Voodoo2 is able to render Direct3D to some extend.
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3Dfx_tweaker Guest	Re: TIME TO PARTY!!!!!!!!!! HEAVY METAL!! Reply #83 - 11.01.05 at 22:53:28 I thought Koolsmoky had just released a winxp direct3d capable V2 driver? He has contacts with 3dfxzone.it why not implement koolsmoky's driver with the fastvoodoo2 xp.
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: TIME TO PARTY!!!!!!!!!! HEAVY METAL!! Reply #84 - 12.01.05 at 00:12:30 Quote: Well, 3dfxzone just doesn't have the "right" Driver, that's it Check the Archive and read the ReadMe File of the Win2k V1.00.00b Driver, if Win2000 is installed. I'll look into it but if it's not written for Mercury a moot point.
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FalconFly YaBB Administrator Offline 3dfx Archivist Posts: 2445 5335N 00745E Gender:	Re: TIME TO PARTY!!!!!!!!!! HEAVY METAL!! Reply #85 - 12.01.05 at 00:36:22 I'm afraid when you intend to run an OS that no official Mercury Driver exists for (I assume no official Win2000-Drivers exist) , you'll probably have to "mix&match" anyway. Anyway, it'll be interesting to see how far you can get with it
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Reply #86 - 12.01.05 at 01:27:58

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I'm afraid when you intend to run an OS that no official Mercury Driver exists for (I assume no official Win2000-Drivers exist) , you'll probably have to "mix&match" anyway.

Well 2000 is close enough to NT4 that the drivers work (but no control panel tab) I don't think that I'm going to tinker around too much trying to get Direct X working. I don't know enough about how windows and the drivers work to start editing things.

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gamma742 God Member Offline 3Dfx Gamer Posts: 1668 San Diego, CA USA Gender:	Re: TIME TO PARTY!!!!!!!!!! HEAVY METAL!! Reply #87 - 12.01.05 at 01:52:52 I think I can live without an "Obsidian" tab in the Display Properties of the Control Panel. That is, if the trade off is better game compatiblity
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Reply #88 - 12.01.05 at 02:36:46

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I think I can live without an "Obsidian" tab in the Display Properties of the Control Panel.

I'm just picky, be nice if it worked but something of a non-issue if there is no advantage to me running 2000.

So far there isn't and I'm starting to learn my way around NT and get comfortable. About the only issue I have now is that using IPX for networking it doesn't see the Win98 machines for some reason but they don't have a problem seeing the NT box.

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gamma742 God Member Offline 3Dfx Gamer Posts: 1668 San Diego, CA USA Gender:	Re: TIME TO PARTY!!!!!!!!!! HEAVY METAL!! Reply #89 - 12.01.05 at 03:19:59 IPX? That's like for Novell Netware. Why not turn on TCP/IP
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