First post, by HighTreason
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Well, some time ago I said that I'd take another look at Voodoo cards seeing how everyone else practically masturbates over them... Maybe the previous attempts just happened to go wrong for reasons I do not know, maybe they performed better than I thought in the right machine.
Today I dragged out two Voodoo 1 cards, my old Orchid Righteous 3D and a Techworks one, the Techworks one seems to be a copy of the reference design and is a model that doesn't have those ridiculous relays.
Anyway, I figured that given the only 3D games on my K5 are running in DOS and use the Virge card, I'd use that as I know it to be a quick and stable system with a hefty power supply, so here should be no problem with running a Voodoo card.
I threw the Orchid in there, the system runs Windows 95 so grabbed the driver vg-w9x-q3 and set that up... Immediately after launching any program that attempts to use the 3DFX card, the screen goes teal (maroon with the Techworks) and the system appears to lock up, plugging the monitor back directly into the S3 card shows that the system has run into a BSOD, an 0D Error in FXMEMMAP.
At first I was like, great, ruined my OS for nothing, have to re-install it I guess, but I reasoned that if another card did it like the S3 or Matrox I'd try to make it work first. I therefore tracked down some other drivers. Voodoolizer drivers don't work at all and my anti-virus hates them anyway. There aren't any others that I can find and as before I notice a severe lack of any resources for the original Voodoo cards.
Anybody got some ideas? I remember seeing that BSOD loads on the few machines who's owners had bought 3DFX cards back in the 90's and early 2000's but never thought much about it before as I either didn't care because it wasn't my machine or pocket cash when I made it go away by installing an ATi/nVidia board instead - and no, I didn't keep their Voodoo 1 / 2 cards before you ask, I left those for the owner to do as they wished, so I don't have a stockpile of them to play with, most of them got traded in for software as far as I know as our local rip-off merchant loved them.
Edit: Found a page here; http://www.falconfly.de/voodoo1.htm
Playing with these...
Edit: Well... That didn't work at first, so I started screwing around with stuff... Don't ask me what I did, but it's running now in all it's blurry laggy glory. Guess I'll have to rake out those 3DFX patches.
