Fixing the bent pins will likely be a huge pain in the butt, but it is the first thing you should do. Be very careful that you don't bend them too much and try to avoid breaking the solder joints when straightening them. Trying to resolder the legs on these chips if you haven't done it before is one of the more frustrating tasks I can imagine in this hobby... not to mention it's super easy to overheat things and damage solder pads.

Beyond that, I've found that drivers and software support are very inconsistent with these cards. I have a Hercules Voodoo Rush 8MB card that I had labeled as defective a few years ago because I couldn't get it to work right in some games. I tested it again recently and it works perfectly in other games (but not in anything newer, like NFS:High Stakes for example) so I'm chalking this one up to driver issues.

I'm comfotable with straightening the legs, I've done it countless times on other cards..

Is there an easy way to test these cards in MS-DOS? Do they work with any Voodoo1 patches like Tomb Raider or Descent? Or possibly with any DOS 3dfx testing/debug tools?

there seems to be corrosion scattared around the card and maybe some affected traces and some obvious damage between the rams

imi wrote on 2020-05-07, 11:21:

there seems to be corrosion scattared around the card and maybe some affected traces and some obvious damage between the rams

I will clean the corrosion for sure.. Could you possibly mark the RAM damage on the picture?

Is it this one?

edit: yeah that one too, there are quite a few spots like that on the card it seems
the right one here definitely looks like it's damaged.

Many thanks, I will check for continuity and add botch wires if necessary!

appiah4 wrote on 2020-05-07, 10:51:

Is there an easy way to test these cards in MS-DOS? Do they work with any Voodoo1 patches like Tomb Raider or Descent? Or possibly with any DOS 3dfx testing/debug tools?

I will be looking for a good answer to this question too. I don't often come across Rush cards but they're just old enough to be a bit more of a pain to test. I know they are basically a Voodoo 1 with a 2D chip, but the drivers seem a lot less cooperative. A fool-proof, reliable way to stress-test a Voodoo Rush would be nice. As it is, the games that worked on mine were very old, so I was never quite sure if they were strenuous enough to fill the memory or test the full functionality of the card. Later games often times just don't work at all with anything older than a Voodoo 2 or Banshee.

There is a Voodoo Rush patch for tomb raider. It is in the updates folder on the cd.

Any progress in fixing your Rush? I personally have beautiful Integraph Intense 3D Vrush card that doesn't produce any output (you can hear monitor turning on/off but no proper picture)... Would love to be able to fix it.