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First post, by Simmerhead

Posted on 2021-02-05, 17:50

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Hi!

I've just installed a new PCI Guillemot Maxi Gamer Phoenix in my Pentium II system.

It's a Voodoo Banshee. I downloaded the drivers from the VOGONS library and installed them after updating the VGA BIOS to the version included in the drivers (which was newer than the BIOS on the card).

Initial results with various games are good. I did have to reinstall a few of them, like NFS III, but it worked fine after a reinstall.

However I can't run 3DMark 99. I get a message that 3DMark 99 requires a DirectX 6 compatible 3D accelerator to work. Shouldn't the Voodoo Banshee support at least DX7?

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Reply 1 of 8, by BigDaddyM

Posted on 2021-02-05, 18:07

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What is the version of the drivers you have downloaded? Do You have Dx7 installed?

Banshee is a Dx6 card but latest drivers may be Dx7 compatibile

Reply 2 of 8, by Simmerhead

Posted on 2021-02-05, 18:30

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Thanks!

Driver version is 4.12.01.1157 - It's the official Guillemot drivers, and according to the VOGONS library the lates ones available.

I haven't installed any separate version of DX, but I had an S3 Virge card installed before the Voodoo, and 3DMark 99 ran fan with that installed...

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Reply 3 of 8, by aaronkatrini

Posted on 2021-02-05, 18:41

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Can you try Evolution 0.9 drivers? They work fine for me.

Reply 4 of 8, by Simmerhead

Posted on 2021-02-05, 18:45

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aaronkatrini wrote on 2021-02-05, 18:41:

Can you try Evolution 0.9 drivers? They work fine for me.

Will check them out!

Last edited by Stiletto on 2021-02-07, 21:44. Edited 1 time in total.

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Reply 5 of 8, by kjliew

Posted on 2021-02-05, 18:49

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3DMark99 uses FILE_VERSION_INFO of DDRAW.DLL to detect the version DirectX. IIRC, DirectX 9.0c runtime broke this and 3DMark99 thought the OS did not have the right version of DirectX it was looking for.

Reply 6 of 8, by BigDaddyM

Posted on 2021-02-05, 19:03

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Did You uninstall virgeDX from system? These drivers work with my banshee and 3Dmark99.

Try to install dx7

Reply 7 of 8, by Simmerhead

Posted on 2021-02-05, 19:18

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BigDaddyM wrote on 2021-02-05, 19:03:

Try to install dx7

That did the trick.

Tried reinstalling DX6, and everything worked fine in DXDiag, but it would only test 3D acceleration in software mode. That made me suspicious.

Got a hold of DX7a and installed it - now everything works.

3DMark 99 requires only DX6, but I suspect the Voodoo drivers I was using was of a newer date, hence required DX7 for proper 3D acceleration.

Now, some pointless, but fun, benchmarking to do 😀

Last edited by Stiletto on 2021-02-07, 21:45. Edited 1 time in total.

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Reply 8 of 8, by BigDaddyM

Posted on 2021-02-05, 22:53

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Cheers 😀

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