Well, now I can get it run in 3Dfx mode, but I can't get my Radeon to run anything...

???


This time I set the motherboard to init PCI first (the V5), and installed the 3Dfx drivers before the ATI drivers.  That makes the V5 my primary graphics adapter, and it's detected by Myth/Myth II as an available 3Dfx rendering device.  It runs both games flawlessly in that mode.  However, games and 3DMark 2001 SE don't detect my Radeon (which I wanted to use as the DirectX rendering device.  Only the V5 shows up.

This is in Windows 98 Gold, DirectX 8.1b, using the WHQL 1.04 V5 drivers and the WHQL Catalyst 4.3 Radeon drivers.

Not sure what to try now...

I use this set-up on windows 2000 (Radeon X850XT-PE agp & voodoo 5500 pci and it works flawlessly)  8)

The Radeon is the primary, the voodoo as secondary. I select which card I want to use in display properties > settings, plug my monitor into the selected card and it works like a charm 

I get full use of d3d, opengl and glide from the 5500.

This link pretty much explains the entire installation procedure:

http://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1942

Update...

In Win98, it doesn't appear that you can switch primary displays.  I can enable the "Extend my desktop onto this monitor", but that doesn't give me an option to make it the primary, and I can't turn that option off for the primary display.  If someone DOES know how to do this, even if it's a hack, PLEASE PLEASE let me know...



Now... I can still get close to having it work, even so.  If I extend the desktop onto the V5 display, that allows Myth to detect that a 3Dfx rendering device is available, and I can pick 3Dfx in the video preferences.

If I do that, all of the 2D GUI stuff (game menu and movies) stay on the primary monitor, through the Radeon.  Once a mission loads, though, it shows up on the second monitor, from the V5.

However, it's garbled.  The picture becomes alternating horizontal lines of real image and "junk".  And on the primary monitor, Myth is minimized.  Worse, the mouse stays with the primary monitor, so that all mouseclicks are interpreted by the desktop, NOT the game, just like when you minimize a game to the taskbar.

Then I tried Myth II.  It works better -- the 3D image is rendered perfectly on the second monitor, no problem -- but I still have the mouse trouble.


So somehow I need to get the mouse strictly attached to what's going on with the second display... and I have no idea how to go about that.

Starting to wonder if I might be screwed on this project.

..ever considered v2 SLI? should run like butter in most systems.

..the wrapper is not enough for me yet (no multitexturing,hitman 1 needs that).but I must say Incubation does look great in hw accelerated mode using 1280*960 res with 4xFSAA and 16x aniso

I have a raddy 9800 too,btw.nice card.

force it via radeon drivers (control panel or ccc).