voodoo 2 is working

i've finally got a pass-through cable to connect my voodoo 2 to a primary graphics card, i'm using an oldish radeon 9200SE (my first graphics card) to only render 2D images, whilst the voodoo 2 is set to jump into action when a 3D game/application is started.

people have asked 'how do you know how the voodoo card is working, and its not just the primary card doing all the work?'

The answer is that a single voodoo 2 card with 8 or 12mb of memory will only make a maximum resolution size of 800 x 600, and if you tried to set it any higher it would revert itself straight back to 513 x 3XX or its lowest supported resolution.

the only way to get a higher resolution, is to connect two IDENTICAL voodoo2's via a ribbon cable in a form of SLI (scaleable link interleave) yes, its the very old, original SLI, its works completely different to what SLI means today, (scaleable link interface) and then you would get a maximum of 1078 x 7XX
since you are effectively doubling the pixel fill rates and other rendering jobs.

Enough of my babbling, enjoy the video and feel free to comment!

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[leewolfgang]

hold on, the eighteenth frame is rendering.

[1700iDiGuy]

@leewolfgang i'm not with you? you mean the red around the screen? Thats the games way of showing you that you are taking damage from enemies..

[leewolfgang]

@1700iDiGuy I'm just making fun of the age of these cards in general. I've only heard of voodoo as really old, shitty things that could barely render something like Elite Force. I'm not technologically advanced enough to actually make technical comment, but I presume that getting voodoo to work on a game like Penumbra is good.

[1700iDiGuy]

@leewolfgang oh right, i get you now, people have actually got these cards to run quake 4 with a few different modded drivers

[SCREAMOFANBIGTIME]

i think the point is why are you showing off your new card with a shit looking game......

[1700iDiGuy]

@SCREAMOFANBIGTIME what are you on about? i dont spend my life on computer games..i work and in my spare time my hobby is making extra money...

[1700iDiGuy]

@LegionAreWe lmao @ your weird drug induced videos, get off the drugs and get a job, incase you havent noticed, a lot of people still play quake 3 online even now in 2010....1000's of people still do. i bet you'd get your ass whooped in less than 12 seconds on it. whats a real game to you? prancing around in your sisters room in her pink socks playing on her nintendo wii?...right...

[1700iDiGuy]

@LegionAreWe 'go fuck yourself failfag'.......wow, oh, wow, you sound so like the mature 30 something you're supposed to be, hahaha!

[AllofVideos]

This thing would never run minecraft on all lowest possible settings, would it?

[isorSOT]

@jjmanman77 dude, shut up

[isorSOT]

@1700iDiGuy dude, shut the fuck up, i mean, you got a nice video here, but you commenting like a troll here, not very good troll tho, and the thing is, Radeon 9200 can play Quake 3, Penumbra and Half Life very great

[paulomuniruequed]

voodoo 2 leaded my best half life 1 experiences

[Ajanek]

@leewolfgang In the time of Voodoo's greatest day it was definitely the most advanced card on market. When you tank of Voodoo you don't neccesary tank about a chipset, but often about a breakthrough in gfx and the legend of 3dfx.

[Quaker763]

thanx 4 this video. now i can stop scouring eBay for a 2d card and hook my precious 3D blaster up to my shitty GeForce 2 MX 200. Now if only i hadnt thrown out my 3d blaster monitor....