Try older drivers

Did you install the chipset drivers for your motherboard? What are the specs of the rest of your system?

cyclone3d wrote on 2020-10-20, 15:00:

Did you install the chipset drivers for your motherboard? What are the specs of the rest of your system?

It is a pretty crappy Packard Bell system and only has PCI slots.
It uses the SIS 530 chipset. I don't think there are any specific SIS 530 chipset drivers (I did find drivers for the IGP).
Motherboard seems to be this one : http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/pb/mb/980.htm

I would recommend trying driver version 45.23 (force install as GeForce FX5200).

BigDaddyM wrote on 2020-10-20, 12:50:

Try older drivers

Thx ... 56.64 seemed to have done the trick.

3D Mark 99 ran fine with these. Getting a low score but that has probably more to do with the CPU / overall system.
Was a bit surprised to see it score lower than my voodoo banshee in the same system (in 3D Mark : 1100 for the FX5500 Vs 1600 for the Banshee)

Using the 45.23 (by manually "updating" the existing driver as the installer didn't want to run) and it ran a little faster (in 3d Mark I got 1200 now), but my LCD monitor didn't output many of the tests in 640x480 and I only saw part of the screen in 800x600.

Judging by that score, it seems you are on a Socket 7 PC (Pentium MMX?).
The lower score with the FX 5500 is not strange at all, it's perfectly normal. You are running a 2003 card with 2004 drivers on a 1997 PC. Those drivers were designed to work with fast CPUs like Athlon 64, Pentium 4, Athlon XP.
On a system like yours, Voodoo cards will always be faster even in Direct3D titles (and when using Glide they will be MUCH faster).

bloodem wrote on 2020-10-21, 07:23:

Judging by that score, it seems you are on a Socket 7 PC (Pentium MMX?).

It's an AMD K6-2 500Mhz . But I am limited to PCI. The best performing cards I have are a PCI Voodoo Banshee and Voodoo 2.

I thought that more modern PCI cards with OpenGL support would run faster than the Banshee / Voodoo 2.
But I can imagine not only the CPU and PCI is going to be the bottleneck here, but also the cards (drivers and game support).

Unfortunately I only have

1. very slow PCI cards (matrox / s3 / rendition / ati)
2. newer Nvidia PCI cards (that don't perform as well as the voodoo cards).

I guess the only real competition for 3DFX were the Riva cards ? (but these are not that easy to find in PCI.)

Yeah, come to think about it, that 3DMark99 score is probably good for your combo (K6-2 500 / Voodoo Banshee).
I actually did a similar benchmark a few weeks ago, and I got ~ 3200 points with a K6-2+ 550 MHz & a Voodoo 3 3000 (I used an AGP card, but a PCI Voodoo 3 would be virtually identical). For the record, with a GeForce 2 MX/MX400 the score is ~ 4000 points.