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First post, by Weebob

Posted on 2018-06-15, 10:26

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Hello,

Sorry I know this will of been discussed before but...

I am getting round to cracking on with a new P4 based win98 build and have the choice of a voodoo 1 or 2 going in it. This is only really going in for "just in case", possibly for play the older Need for speeds and Tomb raider, Glide only and will be paired up with something like a Geforce 2.

Just want to know which is best in terms of compatibility.

Thanks,

Reply 1 of 6, by F2bnp

Posted on 2018-06-15, 10:28

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Voodoo 1 will not work on your Pentium 4 AFAIK, so you don't really have a choice there.

Voodoo 1 only works reliably on Pentium II 400 and below apparently, although I've never really partnered it with anything faster than a Pentium II 233 to be honest.

Reply 2 of 6, by Weebob

Posted on 2018-06-15, 10:33

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F2bnp wrote:
Voodoo 1 will not work on your Pentium 4 AFAIK, so you don't really have a choice there.

Voodoo 1 only works reliably on Pentium II 400 and below apparently, although I've never really partnered it with anything faster than a Pentium II 233 to be honest.

Ah ok, that solves that then! V2 it is

I have seen that I will loose out on the shadows in Tomb Raider, which is a shame but not the end of the world.

Thanks for the reply

Reply 3 of 6, by vetz

Posted on 2018-06-15, 12:01

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Weebob wrote:

I have seen that I will loose out on the shadows in Tomb Raider, which is a shame but not the end of the world.

They are there with a V2 if you use the Voodoo Graphics patch along with environment variables. You only loose the shadows if you use the Voodoo Rush patch.

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Reply 4 of 6, by Weebob

Posted on 2018-06-15, 15:09

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vetz wrote:
Weebob wrote:

I have seen that I will loose out on the shadows in Tomb Raider, which is a shame but not the end of the world.

They are there with a V2 if you use the Voodoo Graphics patch along with environment variables. You only loose the shadows if you use the Voodoo Rush patch.

Ahhh ok.

I will dig them out!

Cheers!

Reply 5 of 6, by derSammler

Posted on 2018-06-15, 16:21

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F2bnp wrote:
Voodoo 1 will not work on your Pentium 4 AFAIK, so you don't really have a choice there.

I had a Voodoo1 running in my P4 (Willamette , 1.3 GHz) for some time and it worked well. It made no sense, speed-wise, however.

Reply 6 of 6, by swaaye

Posted on 2018-06-15, 17:46

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Has anyone gotten a Voodoo1 working on an Athlon system? There are special Athlon drivers for Voodoo2, but I've not found anything for Voodoo1. It just freezes when 3D engages.

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