Yes
you can do it, but it doesn't work well enough to edit with, and requires
two monitors. If you're unfamiliar with the passthrough trick, I'll
explain the entire proccess in "I'm not stupid I just don't know what you're
talking about" depth.
| #1 |
First of all, get the Full
3DFX OpenGL Beta2 drivers. Run the install, then copy 3dfxopengl.dll
from the directory you installed it to. |
| #2 |
Second, get another monitor out there
and near your computer, plug the pass through cable into the monitor (or
a different cable) from where the cable goes to your monitor, plug the
monitor you normaly use straight into your video card. |
| #3 |
Third, go into the QERadient directory
and rename opengl32.dll to something like opengl32.dll.old. Then
paste 3dfxopengl.dll into that directory and rename it to opengl32.dll.
Load up QERadient, if you are using sgi and the buggy ICD, turn them off
and reload QERadient. |
| #4 |
The downsides of this are not good.
For one, only the currently being updated window will show on your monitor,
when you first start up qeradient, it renders each of the four windows
in turn, ending with the Z checker. It will always default to the
texture scroll window, which is fast, just not to great for editing :).
Second, in the 2d window, which will only show up when you're scrolling
around in it, all the labels are rendered before everything else is rendered,
so the labels flicker while you scroll, and disappear when you stop (hold
the right button). Third, this might be just me but I doubt it, you
get a few seconds of flickering when you switch active frames/windows,
and the 3d preview takes that long ot update, also all the windows are
the size they are in QERadient, not fullscren as you might hope.
I didn't claim it's usable,
but it may give you a taste of speed enough to buy a card with a full opengl
icd, or give Robert Duffy some new ideas <G>. :) |
Well, give it a try if you want,
don't expect to be able to do anything produtive with it, and don't E-Mail
me if it doesn't work or messes up your machine (but there's no reason
it should if you don't do anything stupid), and especially do NOT email
Robert Duffy about this not working, this is strickly a hack, and not a
very good one. (I thunk it up and tried it though eh-huck-huck-huck) |
