if no one has a driver for you then unfortunately you will have to try out all kinds of drivers that you find online (just virus check first!) but then you will be able to help the next person with same issue 😀

I think I have. With the result that no driver can be fully recommended. The cards are of course ideal for DOS. But not for 3D on Windows. I still have a friend's Voodoo 2 card, but at some point he wants it back. 😉 If anyone is interested, I'll post the exact versions of the drivers I tested.

I have a few Diamond Viper 330 drivers. 1.30 is the latest, along with 1.28-AGP or 1.28-PCI. I remember finding them on some random FTP I'd seen linked here before. If they sound good, let me know how you want me to send them to you.

Yes, 1.30 ist the lasted driver. This is the one i`m using right now. Found it on a random pc mag cd on the archive.
I also found my older driver, it is the only version capable of running the whole 3DMark 99 benchmark, but with some minor problems.

There is also the possibility that both cards that I got very cheaply from the same supplier are defective, but I think it's the drivers. The problem is that I have no comparison.

It looks similar with Elsa's card, I'm using the latest drivers but the errors have remained. Maybe I should test something else besides 3DMark 99? Turok is running, doesn't have any graphic errors either, but I just don't know if the speed is right.

Win95/DOS 7.1 - P233 MMX (@2.5 x 100 FSB), Diamond Viper V330 AGP, SB16 CT2800

Can you maybe run 3DMark 99. My K6-III 400 should be a bit faster, but I don't know if the result of just 762 points is correct with the driver that works there.
Thx.

I'll give it a spin. I'm running 3dmark99 max. Looking at previous results I've saved, It does look like when I had a PCI Velocity 128 in there with some "196" drivers I found, it did pretty well. Around 1000 points. When I switched to the AGP Diamond V330 and used it's latest drivers, the second benchmark was clearly glitching out, recording only 3 FPS and tanking the overall score down to about 400ish. However, I've never ever noticed a problem in contemporary games like Shogo, Quake 2, GLQuake, Dark Forces, etc. They run about how you'd expect. At least going from memory. Although firing up Quake 2, Shogo and GLQuake just now seems fine. Dark Forces isn't currently installed.

We won't mention Blood 2, which took me down a totally different rabbit hole.

And glancing over at how it's running, I'd say the second benchmark is still pretty fucked. Probably going to wind up with the same 400-ish score it had before. And yeah, that looks to be what happened.

I haven't tried any NVTweak settings however. Wasn't worth the trouble to fix a benchmark when I was trying to play games.

All Pixel Polygons Test (individual) look like this.
Why?
On two different RIVA 128 PCI cards, with two different drivers, on two different PC`s.
I dont get it.

Demolition-Man wrote on 2023-06-19, 19:38:

All Pixel Polygons Test (individual) look like this. Why? On two different RIVA 128 PCI cards, with two different drivers, on tw […]
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All Pixel Polygons Test (individual) look like this.
Why?
On two different RIVA 128 PCI cards, with two different drivers, on two different PC`s.
I dont get it.

I saw some of that looking over my shoulder while it was running the benchmark too. No clue why it does it. But like I said, I saw zero impact on actual games.

My only guess is that the Riva128 was always a bit... special. It's basically a DX5 card, with some "driver support" for DX6, and 3dmark99max is a DX6.1 benchmark.

How'd it do with the nvidia reference drivers versus the likely more out of date vendor specific drivers? I recall those doing better with 3dmark99, but having some troublesome issues in games, low ram systems, and windows 95.

Small update, I checked youtube, and RetroSpector78 did a video about the Diamond V330, and using the latest reference drivers he as well got about 3 fps on the second timedemo. I'd fuck with my own system more, but I'm kind of happy with how it's running and messing with drivers too much on Win95 is tempting fate. For capricious reasons beyond my understanding, the slightest of driver changes causes it to fail to shut down properly.

Are there other 3D games that work on the RIVA 128, but you can choose which graphics card to use? The Voodoo 2 interferes there, but should remain in the system.