thanks to all, especially to filipetolhuizen

thanks all - cannot use any PCI slot, as 3dfx cable to primary card's rather short - tried using some custom 3dfx drivers, but they won't recognize my 3dfx v2 again, thanks

i have major graphical problems when trying to run old games in direct3d (mostly from 1998-1999, though also a few earlier) i tried many drivers, including some very old, but could only manage to reduce problems, not cancel them for example, with the most compatible driver i could find, jane's USAF …

i managed to recuperate my old 3dfx voodoo2 card, and have tried with my old PC: ASROCK mainboard, AMD thunderbird 1GHz, 512 MB (one module, i think 166 MHz) when i insert my old 3dfx voodoo2 videocard, the PC starts freezing, regardless what i am doing at that moment (for example even when only …

well, i checked all hardware, and also all BIOS settings. to my (not-so-trained) eye all looked fine. so i removed both the geforce fx 5500 card & 3dfx v2 card and now the PC's fine (no more freezing/crashes) done that in one session, so not sure which one was the problem. now, of course, not many …

thanks, i was only asking about a solution to make ANY directdraw game look better (tricking either the game or the videocard to start using direct3d or opengl features) and frankly, i'm still not clear on the subject but thank you nevertheless cheers

thanks to all, indeed, for your answers but i should mention i'm not THAT technically inclined to be able to put to practice some of your suggestions as for PSU, indeed a cheap one (probably, don't know brands on this topic) i noticed the PC now also quickly freezes in winXP (on another partition) i …

so no software (like 'fraps') to capture glide, only hardware?

many times if for example i press 'B' key for 5 times, would only type one 'B" (or any other key) this problem is more acute in winXP (SP2), and rather diminished in win95 the same keyboard works OK on another PC (with only winXP SP2) about the mouse: again, the same mouse works in the winXP on the …

thanks, all cheers

some smart people made some ddraw utilities with advanced features, in an effort to make some old (software only) games look as if accelerated mostly, the efforts went towards the 'wing commander' series that's unfortunate, as i would also like to play with improved graphics games like 'super …

i managed to recover a 3dfxv2 card and tried ef2000 v2.0 3dfx works OK, although i have to adjust brightness each time i play the game (don't know which figure to set R G B values to) i would like to upload some movies to youtube, but don't know what capturing programs to use if you know some tools …

i'm trying to make a machine to play old games under win9x & directx6/7, but i'm having some troubles 1. do you know if it's OK to use a power source of 400W for a computer which previously had a 350W power source (cannot find a 350W power source anymore) (AMD 1Ghz thunderbird, geforce fx 5500, 512 …