VOGONS


First post, by neocps1

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Hello,

For now, I have failed to make work my voodoo 3 3000 pci with any glide driver.
The card is detected by the games in msdos, but I always get a bunch of ramdac write errors
which ends up locking the games.

So I keep it as a 2d video card since it is really fast and works nicely with odd video modes.

I put a voodoo 1 with it, put voodoo 1 glide drivers and noticed shadow warrior has a 3dfx
mode, so I wanted to give it a try.

The 3dfx is properly detected, I get the 3dfx logo followed by a bunch of messages from the game
about pictures / textures / animations conversions to be supported by the 3dfx, but at the end,
all I get is a white screen. I however can hear the game running.

What's the best way to check if a 3dfx is properly working ? Do you have a list of softwares I can
use for that purpose ?

thank you ! 😀

Reply 1 of 2, by derSammler

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How do you tell the Glide driver to use the Voodoo 1 and not the Voodoo 3? It does bus enumeration and uses the first Voodoo card found. So first, replace the Voodoo 3 with some non-3dfx card and test if the Voodoo 1 is working at all. Tomb Raider is a good game for testing this, as it normally "just works".