Descent II was the first game DOS game I played with my Voodoo. Tomb raider is excellent under DOS with a Voodoo card as well as Carmageddon.

Those require specific 3Dfx patches, or are you looking for native Voodoo games or demos?

I have Tomb Raider on there but I didn't see any options for Voodoo. Is there a patch? I thought it was Tomb Raider 2 that had Voodoo support. Is 2 for Windows only? I don't have Windows on the 486 though.

Try the first Tomb Raider with a 3dfx patch (there is a hardware-dependent patch for Voodoo Graphics only, and a hardware-independent Voodoo Rush patch that works with any 3dfx hardware, dgVoodoo and Glidos emulators, and DosBox too). Moreover, it's one of the few Glide games that will work fine on a 486 machine.

EDIT: those patches are on Tomb Raider Unfinished Business 2nd CD-ROM. I have uploaded both files.

Shadow warrior worked under Voodoo also... and carmageddon 1.

Scorched Planet. It's one of the earliest ones, dating Sept 1996. A 3dfx demo is available.

Interstate 76 was Voodoo 1 iirc

Thanks for the help. I think I will try Tomb Raider first.

Tetrium wrote:

Interstate 76 was Voodoo 1 iirc

But only for the Gold edition. Plain vanilla i76 is software only

Is GLQuake too obvious? Wait GLQuake is windows right?

What is your voodoo 1 card doing anyways?

Also some older games need the drivers glide2x.ovl and glide2x.dll are copied to the games directory.

RogueTrip2012 wrote:

Is GLQuake too obvious? Wait GLQuake is windows right?

What is your voodoo 1 card doing anyways?

Also some older games need the drivers glide2x.ovl and glide2x.dll are copied to the games directory.

Will not work in DOS as far as I know, uses Windows 95 OpenGL libraries.

I recommend MDK. It works on a 486, but is too slow. If you get a glide copy it should run playably on a (high-end) 486 with a Voodoo.

Might be able to get GLQuake working using the HX extender, but I don't know if you could call the Voodoo card through it or if it would fallback on OpenGL emulation..

leileilol wrote:

Tetrium wrote:

Interstate 76 was Voodoo 1 iirc

But only for the Gold edition. Plain vanilla i76 is software only

I got the cd, I was confusing i76 with Nitro Riders, which on the cd states supports 3dfx hardware 😉
Off topic, but nevertheless interesting:It also mentions hardware support for Rendition and Power VR 😀

Yeah if possible, VooDoo games always worked better in DOS. Everything was faster in Dos to be fair.

Tomb Raider, Carmageddon, Screamer 2 ... all seemed to be 5-10fps quicker than running in Win95. And it always felt sort of rad playing a voodoo game in DOS. It just felt like raw power.

Bring back DOS!

Not for me. The whole 'faster in DOS' seemed like a placebo effect. Then again I did have 64mb RAM at the time..... 😳 🤣

leileilol wrote:

Not for me. The whole 'faster in DOS' seemed like a placebo effect. Then again I did have 64mb RAM at the time..... 😳 🤣

Nope. It was indeed so. Another fine example is the original Need For Speed. Under dos it was flying, under windows 95 it didnt exactly crawl, but it was a pain to run.