v2 on sli without same memory size?

[aquasonic]

Hello greeting to all... First post

I Had an old Banshee card (still have it... and love it) a long time ago but then i wasn't aware of what the name 3Dfx ment. Anyhow i grown up, and about 3 months ago i found a VooDoo 2 of Diamond multimedia on a friends box of old hardware. He gave it to me and i was and still am thanking him for giving her to me. Yesterday another friend of mine found me another 3D monster II, but this one instead of the first (8mb) this one is 12mb. Will SLi work on these two? Ah and also, how much heat do they raise? Cause i might think of a "slight" overclocking

Sorry for my english... (i speak england very best )

10x

[ps47]

I dont think it will work,but you can always try.

[aquasonic]

I am afraid of the cards... If it won't work will it harm them ?

[Nightbird]

That can work (but never tried) but i think that you will have only 4 megs of display memory and 4 megs of texture memory. The other extra 4 megs of texture memory on the 12 meg card will not used.
In short, the result would be as if you were using 2 8-meg cards in sli.

[Nightbird]

Originally posted by aquasonic

I am afraid of the cards... If it won't work will it harm them ?

No,
If that doesn' work, the sli will not be detected or perhaps you will get black screen but you can't harm the cards.

[aquasonic]

Ah nice Tnx for the replies Also do i need the internal cable or i can use the external VGA->VGA cable?

[Nightbird]

You will need :
- the standard monitor cable between the (first) Voodoo2 and your monitor
- the vga pass-through cable between your primary card and the first voodoo 2
- the sli cable between your 2 Voodoo2's

Look here for the setup :
http://www.shifter.sk/helppage/default_fix.htm#SLI

and here :
https://www.3dfxzone.it/dir/3dfx/voodoo2/releasenotes/fv2_4.0_xp_ge.htm

[aquasonic]

merci beaucoup mon ami (hope i wrote it well... i know only a few French
Today i will receive the second card and i hope everything will be fine

[in3d]

For a girl you should write "amie" not "ami".

[aquasonic]

oh thought she was a boy... sorry
)
Well it works (i made SLi cable myself) but i get the screen... artifacted (only on games)... Is it because of the different memory size?

[aquasonic]

basicly... on test drive 4 it crashes when it tryies to load the 3Dfx logo, on midtown madness shows the choosen car full of artifacts and then it crashes when it loads

[Nightbird]

Perhaps a stupid question :
but if you try your Voodoo2's separately, do they work ?

Try also to put the output to the monitor from the 8 meg card (and not from the 12 meg card)

Don't use a sli cable too long

And what do you mean "the screen... artifacted" ?

[aquasonic]

i ment it had artifacts. To tell u the truth i haven't checked them seperatly... only the 8mb card. I had already the 8mb as primary but now i put the 12mb to see how things go...

Also when i select on the drivers (fastVooDoo2) to disable sli midtown madness gives me the option to play on 1024x768 (even though it crashes), but on 800x600 i can put all settings to hi and the game won't loose frames at all! with only the 8mb it was terrible with everything to high. BUT it have
blueish colours...

[aquasonic]

Finaly the 12mb proven to be dead, because i worked it alone and had the same symptoms. I changed slot and everything but didn't help. At least i made a working SLi cable

[Nightbird]

Ehm, now you have a sli cable ( but you need an other V2 (8 meg) or the best 2 V2 (12 meg) (because of the extra 4 megs of texture memory)
Easy in Greece to find a Voodoo2 ?

(i can't answer in your native langage : i don't speak it but your french words are perfect   )
i found "thanks" in greek but the board doesn't write correctly the words in greek )