@Rogue
There can never be enough driver support.
Has Hyperion or SciTech ever thought about implementing Metabyte's parallel graphics technology or something similar of your own design?
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Once upon a time, a clever little company called Metabyte created a parallel graphics technology code-named the "Wicked3D Stepsister" which allowed two nVidia TNT cards to be used in a combination of 2x PCI or AGP with PCI.
Not to be confused with two Voodoo 2 cards in SLI, which would render odd or even lines. Metabyte's process of rendering images from two sources separates the entire image into two sections: top & bottom. The driver then sends the render information to the appropriate board so that rendering occurs in parallel on the two boards. This offers the absolute advantage of reduced CPU overhead whilst making the whole operation more seamless. Instead of a 50:50 image processing split between the two cards, the split ratio is determined by the independent performance of each card.
This technology allows graphics cards to run in a parallel configuration using any existing chip on the market and can be applied to any future chipset. The application of this technology will yield a 40+ percent increase in performance and will double megapixel per second fill rate of a dual card configuration over a single card. Another advantage is that it allows the use of dual monitors like a Matrox card and can switch back to a single monitor when high performance is required.
With a little imagination & programming skill it should be possible to combine virtually any two graphics cards in a PCI/AGP combination.
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