Voodoo3 and Banshee are major architectural change from Voodoo2 and Voodoo1. Most games that run on Voodoo1 will run on Voodoo2. In fact, there are only very few games that run on Voodoo1 but cannot run on Voodoo2. On the other hand, there could be many games that run on Voodoo2 but cannot run on Voodoo3.

Having both Voodoo3 and Voodoo2 is a nice thing; you use Voodoo3 for Direct3D/OpenGL/later GLide games, and Voodoo2 for early GLide games.

A small correction: with the right patches a lot of the dos games can even run on a v3.

The v3 list is in the same topic as the v2 list, just a few pages later...

The more I've looked into it, the more the V2/V3 combo seems to be the way to go. It also seems that I won't have to worry about V2 in SLI. I will lose my 6800 but I've got another home for that.

I think all that I have left would be what are the best drivers to use in this combo?

I want to add one thing since I'm a Voodoo 3 user and finaggled with Tomb Raider (I have the Gold Edition) couple years ago.

With Voodoo 3 you can use its acceleration but I found out it helps to run the game THROUGH WINDOWS and NOT through a pure dos environment. In Dos the game kept locking up on me but in Windows everything went hunky-dorey and I got better graphics and everything.

And yes, Gold is still using a dos executable, just for some reason running in Windows fixes any issues it has with graphic drivers.

My comp is slightly less powerful than yours (700mhz instead of 933, but same amount of ram) so if this worked for me it should work for you.

VOODOO 3 IS IN THE MAIL, GONA BE HERE TODAY!

So my hope is to install the V2 PCI and V3 AGP, either passthrough or use VGA switch, and a fresh Win98 Install.

I know I will need to install the V2 drivers first and then the V3 next. What are the best drivers for this setup?

Thanks!

(Yeah, little excited, last Voodoo I uased was my V3 3500 over 15 years ago)

One other thing, does it matter which PCI slot the V2 when it comes slot/IRQ sharing ? According to my manual, AGP shares with PCI 1 in one column and AGP shares with PCI 2 in another. If the V3 is in the AGP, what is the best for the V2? PCI 1, 2 or something else?

I understand how IRQs work, just these tables for some reason confuse me.

IIRC, Voodoo 2s doesn't use any IRQ so there shouldn't be any sort of problem.
On my system, one of my voodoo 2 is in the 2nd PCI slot while the other one is in the 5th and I don't have any problems

Well, so far I got the V2 and V3 in and working quite well. Tombraider works after putting in the V3 and I confirmed it is playing off of it. Works with the tombrush.exe patch and works under DOS and Windows. It did not work when I just had the V2 in but I'm not worried why right now.

King's Quest 8 and Unreal @ 1024x768 also work well from the V3 although the framerate is not the greatest at that resolution.