Hi Steve
  AFAIK there is as yet not one single mobo available that has run
"Crossfire" and as one phrase in the linked page you provided
says " Plus, get $100 off a *future* "Crossfire" purchase
since IIRC that protocol requires some kind of crossover/combiner cable
that has yet to be offerred other than in pictures of the proposed future. 
Actually I am not in doubt that it will be realized as ATi is not only a
capable competitor in hardware but really, they *have* to produce it or
suffer extremely severe consequences. 

It may seem ironic at best that gaming efforts can be so important but
apparently gaming sales exceeded movie sales ;ast year and major film
directors are now getting involved because it is so lucrative both in
profit dollars and in sheer hype, hubub and recognition. Not only has
gaming nearly always been at the bleeding edge of multimedia development
and certainly the single greatest factor pushing the upgrade cycles, but
recently a set of program scalled "Machinema" makes it possible
for anyone to employ characters, scenery, effects, etc, basically all the
fundamentals, from most games and create a "filming" environment
allowing multiple automated "camera" placements even while
dubbing other audio and video to create a movie without ever paying a
single actor, best boy or grip.  It always struck me as shortsighted that
IBM eschewed considerable multimedia support thinking businessmen would be
pleased OS/2 was a "serious" non-gaming environment but the very
multimedia that provides ga

ming is also what is used now on virtually every eBiz website to glitz it
up and sell the sizzle not the steak.  Now it seems the seemingly disparate
elements of multimedia are becoming even more integrated and co-operative. 
It is still possible to find other market niches w/o racing for the best in
3D but it is the smaller piece of pie by a large margin.  Even mighty Intel
woos gamers and game/game hardware reviewers as noted in the recent
articles surrounding the AMD/Intel court battle such as mentioned here
 
 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-5895002.html?tag=nl.e589

though I strongly suspect you already know all this, Steve.  I just thought
it worthy of remebering and it does at least loosely concern OS/2 hardware
issues.

  As for the IBM Nvidia driver I very likely made the old
"assume" mistake based on downloading a driver for my TNT2 card
way back when whose filename was IBM_NVIDIA.ZIP IIRC.  I didn't know who
wrote it.  In fact I am so ignorant in this area I didn't even know it was
possible to write hardware drivers in VBE, well maybe "possible"
is a tad strong, but "effective" or "desirable" might
work better.  Interesting, since the driver did work OK.

BTW please forgive what may appear haphazrd in my posts of late in terms of
format since I am still stuck with Comcast's webmail until I bite the
bullet and effect some major repairs and I can't seem to get their webmail
to "reply as quoted text" in the body of the letter.  



> IBM never had an Nvidia driver, as far as I know.  Nvidia themselves made a 
> GRADD driver once, but it was basically VBE only.


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