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Voodoo 1 not working on Msdos...

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First post, by Kaisersoze

Posted on 2025-05-18, 11:49

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P133 ( Socket 7 ) - Award BIOS
32 MB Ram
Win95 - Msdos with multiboot menu ( starting from Msdos first )

Sorry guys, probably this one has been already addressed by someone else, but I'm having the same problem here but so on still unsolved...
Anyway, i don't even think it is a resources matter, nor a bad/damaged voodoo card one.
Indeed, when i run statically linked games such as Actua Soccer i can get it working flawlessly.
Even with the glide2x.ovl taken from c:\windows and pasted into game's dir i haven't got any luck so far.

Bear in mind that in Windows my dinamically linked glide games run like a charm...but when i start them in DOS, they FREEZE like a chef...

Any solution here yet?

Reply 1 of 2, by Imperious

Posted on 2025-05-21, 00:19

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What Windows glide games are You trying to get working in Dos?
Maybe have a look here Revised list of Voodoo games for DOS.

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Reply 2 of 2, by Gmlb256

Posted on 2025-05-23, 15:29

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What the OP actually meant is that DOS Glide games using the external GLIDE2X.OVL file ran ok within Windows 95 but they fail in a proper DOS environment. Usually an issue with the latest Voodoo Graphics drivers.

The solution for this situation is to get the Glide 2.43 runtime libraries (GRTVGR.EXE) and grab the version of GLIDE2X.OVL from it, which works in pure DOS and MS-DOS mode.

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