From Mastertronic.com

3dfx Voodoo 2

From Gamer: Seems I found the problem with crashing while saving. I switched off "Triple colour buffering" in my Voodoo 2 Glide properties I had no further saving-crash. Leave all advanced-options off in the V2 properties page. The only thing I switched off is the wait for V-sync and that still works.

Ahh! THANK YOU. 😀 I will try that! This is my first Voodoo card. I was pulled into the NVidia galaxy at the end of the last millenium.

The Voodoo2 has always been a pain-in-the-b**t with odd lock-ups. Many games required a patch only to work with that card, but it still rocked. For best compatibility the original Voodoo Graphics is the one.

Shoot- no go here. If I uncheck the triple buffering option in Voodoo tweaker, I'm left with misaligned/invisible textures. Can't play it that way... 🙁 I turned it back on and sure enough, freeze when saving. Any other ideas? Should I try MesaFX?

Have you patched the game? I never ran it in Glide mode (I had a 16MB TNT at the time) but IIRC it was very buggy and they released a couple of patches for it.

Have you tried running it on the 5200 to see if it does the same thing?

Yeah, I downloaded the latest "official" 1.2 patch Shiny had uploaded way back in 2000ish

Edit: I heard the gog.com version one can buy is patched and fixed, but I hate to buy a game I already own...even if it is $2.99 😀 Besides, I *want* to use it on my vintage hardware, not just my Windows 7 laptop.

Direct3D version crashes when run straight on the NVidia FX 5200 btw, it never did like my regular card.

3dfx Voodoo2 and a modern motherboard is kind of a nuts idea since I read about some bug that causes them to fry/melt in those things.

OR!!! It could be the Nvidia Geforce card doing the evil deed of backstabbing Voodoo2's D3D HAL drivers.

I actually have one of those big case fans for cooling that sits parallel with the PCI slots right flush with those cards. It ought to suck any excess heat out (I hope!) Unless the "bug" is some kind of electrical zappy bug that kills the cards/board.
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I went ahead and downloaded the GoG.com version of Messiah (so at least I can play on Windows 7!) but I noticed this one has no 3dfx version, just the D3D one...I'll experiment more later and post more results when I get off work today.

Edit: bought legally, of course 😀 I love gog.com

If you look in the Messiah forum on GOG I believe there is a patch to add the Glide functionality to the game (unofficial).

Or if you have both versions you can probably do it yourself.

That's right, there is a way to do that, one of the user reviews of Messiah over there mentions it as well.
The reviewer could not get it to work in D3D and ended up running it in 3DFX mode with a wrapper.

Sune Salminen wrote:

That's right, there is a way to do that, one of the user reviews of Messiah over there mentions it as well.
The reviewer could not get it to work in D3D and ended up running it in 3DFX mode with a wrapper.

I thought GOG went to some effort to make such bothersome workarounds unnecessary. So much for that idea.

DosFreak wrote:

If you look in the Messiah forum on GOG I believe there is a patch to add the Glide functionality to the game (unofficial).

Messiah has always had a glide mode

IIRC GOG deleted the Glide executable in their release so you have to add it back.....

DosFreak wrote:

IIRC GOG deleted the Glide executable in their release so you have to add it back.....

So I could take the 3dfx executable from my CD version (after patching it to 1.2) and paste it into the GoG games version? I was going to check it out last night, but ended up spending productive family time with my mom, dad, dog and fiancee. I was a good boy. 😀 Well that, and she and I were playing Alice: Madness Returns. 😜

Yeah the unofficial patch I was talking about (which I can't find) packaged the executables with another glide wrapper in a zip.

All you really have to do is extract the glide executable from the 1.2 patch along with zeckensack glide wrapper and use it with the game.

I don't have the GOG release (I've had the retail since it first came out) but the I believe the above is what GOG users do.