Retro PC Gamer Uses Eight 3DFX Voodoo 2 GPUs to play Half-Life
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Technically NVidia changed the acronym to "Scalable Link Interface" when they reintroduced the concept in 2004 since it then predominantly used Alternate Frame Rendering which is of course a very different approach (Original Voodoo SLI was a form of SFR as you can probably guess from the name).
WYP
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You are right. I have updated the article to clarify things. Thanks for the info.
Don't see how that is relevant. That would be like me commenting on one of your hobbies "you have two much time on your hands"
WYP
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Everyone has their passions fella. I'm sure plenty of people see me play D&D and think the same thing.
WYP
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So you are a Warhammer fan and it's all downhill from there?
Never tried Warhammer miniatures. There is a Warhammer shop in Belfast, nobody I know wants to try it out. That said, I am not a fan of Age of Sigmar lore-wise.
AlienALX
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Well I never knew that, kidda.
When I was in middle school I used to take the pi55 out of these two kids who played it. One was from Iraq. Any way, instead of telling me to eff off like they usually do he caught me off guard and said "Why don't you come to my house after school and play it?". I gotta say, I loved it. Really was a great way to use the imagination.
I got kinda hooked after that, but we went out separate ways when I changed school and I never played it again.
WYP
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If I remember correctly, Civilization: Beyond Earth used SFR when using multi-GPU with the Mantle API.
Yeah for a while NVidia still had the option to force SFR in their drivers I think, the issue is that for 90% of games getting the load balancing right is a mess, AFR became dominant because load balancing was no longer an obvious issue (Obviously it affected frame timings but you'd generally still have an even load from one frame to the next), SFR requires much better timing than usual high level API/driver systems can allow even for titles well suited to it, but obviously basically any traditional 3D title is likely to have heavily uneven load distribution from top to bottom (With sky's and floors coming into screen in varying degrees) and often also from left to right especially in say a racing game so you'd have to scale where you did the split in realtime and make estimations about the load in realtime which it turns out is pretty hard.
g0ggles1994
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I-I need some clean pants..
NeverBackDown
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Never played half life so don't understand why he would do this, but it's still cool as a tech nerd.
AlienALX
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TBH you didn't need to do this. One Voodoo 2, even with my SIS integrated graphics was more than enough to run it.
It's still cool as heck though.
I love the Lore of 40K. I f***ing love painting them. But I have no passion for table top gaming. It really is a time sink, and something I have very little spare.
I spend around 15hours painting one miniature. I still have around 300 more to paint. I need to stop buying more and finish what I have.
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