its nice to see some 3dfx fans. I started with a Orchid righteous 3d. I moved up to 2 sli cards after that. I Loved the cards. I ran them in a pentium 350 and they worked perfectly. I still have the cards now. Glquake was probably the most memorable game(unreal, Kingpin, Half-life, AVP).

Anyway about 4 years ago(was out of the loop for about 8 years) I put together a system with a athlon 1.8mgz iirc. And 256 mb of memory. Mobo has a nforce chipset. Back when I originally put the system together I had issues. I could run one card with no problem at all. But with 2 cards it booted fine. After the driver install on the second card, i would reboot the computer. As soon as windows would start and load the drivers it would reboot without warning. It would constantly loop over and over again. I tried the alt-con-del as windows was loading the drivers, and actually was able to delete the rundll file that was causing the reboot. So I could actually run the computer.

Well, that brings me to now. I pulled everything out of the garage and set it back up again. Same exact problem as before. I found the fastvoodoo drivers and they actually kept the computer from rebooting. So I tried some games. To my surprise almost all the games ran. (half-life, unreal, quake, dungeon keeper, avp 1, 2 is questionable, mechwarrior 3) Anyways, Im getting a wierd graphics glitch with every game. When running one card the problem is worse than when running both cards. It seems like the textures are pixelated. Its actually the same problem on all games. So Im sure its probably a hardware problem.

I ordered a voodoo 5500 and realized its the wrong agp slot. aarrgghh. I just ordered a voodoo 3000 pci, so I will try that too. Im thinking about putting a pentium 677 together to see how the voodoo 2 works in that system.

Any feedback would be appreciated.

Tim wrote on 06.02.09 at 13:26:46:


Yep. Just checked each card. The problem is with just 1 of the cards. I might go on ebay and look for another card. I have a pair of Best Data fx2 12mb voodoo 2 cards. I havent seen 1 on ebay for a long time. So Ill probably have to get another type and hope theyll work with the patch.

Im expecting a pci voodoo 3000 in the mail soon. Im going to try that and see how that works. I just picked up a mobo with a pentium 677. I was planning on trying the voodoo 5500 on that mobo.

But, after thinking it over, I might just pick up a tower off of Ebay already assembled. It looks like that will be cheaper than putting together a second computer.

How do the voodoo 3000/5500 work with the older games? Like Glquake, Unreal, powerslide, mechwarrior 3, etc? I would think they would work fine, since they are all glide cards. It would be nice to have the same compatibility as a voodoo 2, but to have a single card. Seems like there would be less opportunity for conflicts.

Thanks.

Well, i started buying parts for the new computer(case, mobo, 667 p3 proc, ram, etc). I also ordered a creative voodoo 2 12 mb card to replace the bad one. I should also be getting the voodoo 3000 any day now. So Ill test that out first in the computer Im running now. Once I get all the parts for the new computer, Ill test out the v 5500 in that one. 

I'm just going to run windows 98 in both computers. Hopefully between both computers, Ill be able to run every older game I want. LoL. the plan is to have the voodoo 2 sli in the 1.7ghz AMD computer, and the v 5500 in the p3 667. I would like to put all 3 cards in the p3 667. But, Im sure that would cause alot of headaches as far as drivers for glide, opengl, etc.

Hmm. Thats interesting. Well, Ill wait and see how the "new" computer runs everything. If everything runs good and I have no compatibility problems, then ill probably just run that computer and put this computer back in storage. It would be nice to have 2 voodoo 2 cards and 1 voodoo 5500 in the same case