I'm considering upgrading my video card to either a 9800 GTX or a 9800 GX2 in march. I am considering this over getting a nintendo Wii because I've not heard too many good things about the console.
I expect the GX2 to be a bit more powerful than the GTX. If I got the GX2, would BZII use only one of the GPU's on the card?
Good job not getting the Wii, who needs frikkin exercise when they wanna game?! :P
Anyway, BZ2 does not use the graphics card IIRC, it processes through the CPU and sends it on its way out of the video card (Software T&L).
If it does use the video card for anything but displaying the picture, I'm not sure what (maybe bumpmapping)...
Not true, better videocards help, they just dont help as much as they would if BZ2 was using full hardware T&L.
I just looked up the GX2 -- ooooh, its got 2 videocards built in to it. Thats awesome. :) I might get me one of those.
And from what I read, it looks like you'll get some of the benefits of SLI in non-SLI aware apps (like BZ2)
I'd wait until the card is reviewed before purchasing it. The 7900gx2 was a complete flop from what I read on some of the hardware forums. The new card is suppose to share some of its characteristics so I'd recommend waiting.
I hope it is a good card. Unlike ATIs card, the two GPUs are supposedly on two separate boards. How I don't know.