If you are trying to run a DOS games in NTVDM and it needs to see the CDROM drive then alot of older MS-DOS games need the CDROM drive to be on D: or E:.

So try chaing your cdrom drive letter.

Other than that the only other thing I can suggest is to use DOSBox or a real computer because NTVDM is not the ideal environment for DOS games.

Pandemonium is a win9x game

The same also applies for Windows for older games. Change the CDROM letter.

Success! Uninstalled program and re-installed it, still objected that I didn't have a 3dfx card, so proceeded to install non-3dfx version but it wasn't a problem as you will see. Then I copied the dgVoodoo (1.50) files into the program folder deleted pandy.exe and pandy.bat and copied over pandy3exe and pandy3.bat. It worked!
If I can get that to work as a 3dfx version I think I now have access to all the games that I couldn't play when I upgraded from a proper Voodoo card all those years ago.

Hello again - now is there any way to use a USB gamepad with this game? As I can't find it.
I know the game pad is OK but the game doesn't see it. Do I really have to get a PCI gameport card? I know I can use the keyboard but it's a bit of a pain.

www.xpadder.com

Hi again,

All sorted - just needed to configure the gamepad properly - clicked on advanced and selected it to use with older games, et voila!

Hi,

Whilst looking for something else entirely, I came across my pukka CD for Pandemonium, so I thought great, I can have the in-game music now as well.

Wrong!

Anybody any clues please?

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Hi,

Whilst looking for something else entirely, I came across my pukka CD for Pandemonium, so I thought great, I can have the in-game music now as well.

Wrong!

Anybody any clues please?

Well after a long time I have tried again after having new harddrive etc for other reasons and now the music works too!

Are you using nGlide??

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Are you using nGlide??

Both dgVoodoo and nGlide are on computer

Nice, 'coz GoG version comes with it.

Hi,

Slightly confused - I have several computers. On main XP with Geforce 6200 I have both NGlide and DGVoodoo (1.50) - on starting game I get the the 3DFX spinning logo - works fine. I also have an old laptop running Windows XP works with DGVoodoo (1.40) but not with NGlide, I don't get the spinning 3DFX logo. However I'm sure it is the 3DFX version. I got my Disc when I bought a Hercules Stingray 128. I also have a Windows 7 computer but I haven't really bothered trying to get many games to run on that as yet. Interestingly, I also built myself a Windows 98SE machine with Voodoo 3000 16mb agp card, Pentium 3 (approx900mhz) with 512mb. Of course that runs the game just fine.

So DGVoodoo probably doesn't give the spinning logo but NGlide does but needs the right Graphics Card to work (I think card compatability is covered in NGlides FAQs) i.e Geforce6200 in my case.

That's okay, many of lightmaster's posts are confusing. 😉

dgVoodoo 1.x, I forget if it ever supported the spinning logo.

The spinning logo is generated by the game+wrapper loading an original 3dfx file. With original 3dfx cards it came from a particular driver included with the drivers, IIRC it was named 3DfxSpl.dll / 3DfxSpl2.dll / 3DfxSpl3.dll. This file needs to be present (depending on which revision of Glide the game uses, 3DfxSpl.dll is a splash plugin for glide.dll., 3DfxSpl2.dll is a splash plugin for glide2x.dll, 3DfxSpl3.dll is a splash plugin for glide3x.dll). There's also a way to disable it from displaying too, usually by removing the file from the game/wrapper's directory.

If memory serves Pandemonium is a glide.dll game so you need 3DfxSpl.dll in the folder with your wrapper and/or the game. If you check your main XP system you will probably find it. nGlide bundles it with the wrapper ever since 0.93 (current version: 1.05) and IIRC its config tool manages whether the logo is enabled or disabled, dgVoodoo does not do this.

More info on nGlide's handling of the splash screen: http://www.zeus-software.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=30

PS. There's dgVoodoo 2.x now, but it seems as though even your main system is too old to run it.

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- Operating system: Windows Vista/7/8/10 with DirectX11 installed.
- Hardware: GPU supporting DirectX feature level 10.1.

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dgVoodoo 1.x, I forget if it ever supported the spinning logo.

I just checked: the logo does not appear, there's no option for it, and "3dfxspl" text does not appear in dgVoodoo files.
It seems there's no logo support at all.

- Operating system: Windows Vista/7/8/10 with DirectX11 installed.
- Hardware: GPU supporting DirectX feature level 10.1.

It doesn't work for me on HD5770, which is a DX11 card.

dgVoodoo 2 sucks. Doesn't work on any of my machines.

Hi,
I knew about DGVoodoo 2 not being suitable for XP but as I said I also have a Windows 7 computer, which should be up to it, just not had the time as yet.
By the way if anybody is interested I have managed to get 3d acceleration for Jedi Knight Dark Forces 2 to work on my fairly basic XP laptop by use of the DDraw.dll mod, but to get all the enhancements will take some work on the Windows 7 system. This only (for me) leaves Shadows of the Empire needing the Voodoo 3 computer.

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That's okay, many of lightmaster's posts are confusing. 😉

dgVoodoo 1.x, I forget if it ever supported the spinning logo.

The spinning logo is generated by the game+wrapper loading an original 3dfx file. With original 3dfx cards it came from a particular driver included with the drivers, IIRC it was named 3DfxSpl.dll / 3DfxSpl2.dll / 3DfxSpl3.dll. This file needs to be present (depending on which revision of Glide the game uses, 3DfxSpl.dll is a splash plugin for glide.dll., 3DfxSpl2.dll is a splash plugin for glide2x.dll, 3DfxSpl3.dll is a splash plugin for glide3x.dll). There's also a way to disable it from displaying too, usually by removing the file from the game/wrapper's directory.

If memory serves Pandemonium is a glide.dll game so you need 3DfxSpl.dll in the folder with your wrapper and/or the game. If you check your main XP system you will probably find it. nGlide bundles it with the wrapper ever since 0.93 (current version: 1.05) and IIRC its config tool manages whether the logo is enabled or disabled, dgVoodoo does not do this.

More info on nGlide's handling of the splash screen: http://www.zeus-software.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=30

PS. There's dgVoodoo 2.x now, but it seems as though even your main system is too old to run it.

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- Operating system: Windows Vista/7/8/10 with DirectX11 installed.
- Hardware: GPU supporting DirectX feature level 10.1.

No, unfortunately dgVoodoo 1.x doesn't support spinnging logo and 3Dfx watermark. 😐

Dege wrote:

No, unfortunately dgVoodoo 1.x doesn't support spinnging logo and 3Dfx watermark. 😐

Thankfully dgVoodoo 2.x does (if you have the 3dfx splash DLLs) 😀

Hi,
I have checked - main computer has the splash DLLs, so I get the spinning logo, haven't had time to check the laptop, so can't say yet which is handling the running of the 3Dfx part. I'll try and remember to have a look, perhaps later today.