First post, by pico1180
Greetings All,
I recently purchased a Monster 3D II off eBay. The seller claimed it may or may not work.
So fair, my experience with the card has been positive but non the less troubling. Let me explain.
Pass through works fine, drivers install fine under windows 98. I can go to video properties and see the little spinning 3dfx logo.
But this is where things start getting weird and my confidence in this card working starts to become shakey.
I installed the drivers for the Voodoo II card, but not for the 2D card. In this case it was a Matrox G450. When I tried to start 3Dmark99 or 3Dmark 2000 it said no 3Dcard was detected.
When I installed the drivers for the G450 3Dmark 99 and 2000 loaded.
In the settings of said benchmarks I can select the Monster 3D II as an available video card to test. I run the benchmark and it completes without error.
But here is where my confidence in this card is shaken again. The results for the Voodoo II and the G450 are virtually identical in both 99 and 2000. I compared to previous results I gathered a few years ago from an STB Black Magic and the same exact G450 on the same exact system; but from a few years back. They should not share nearly identical numbers.
I didn't have any other video cards that have windows 98 drivers so I moved to XP. In XP I appeared to be able to install the Voodoo II but when I loaded 99 or 2000 it didn't see the Voodoo II. But it appeared to be installed correctly in Device Manager.
There are a few things I want to try, but honestly I didn't want to continue down this road until I heard some feedback.
Does anyone have a simple and straightforward way to see if a Voodoo card is working properly?