First post, by brotalnia
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I bought a Voodoo 2 and installed it in my computer along with my Voodoo 3 AGP for greater compatibility, but i am having a problem with the drivers. Before physically installing the new card i uninstalled the Voodoo 3 drivers and switched to the standard vga driver. After i installed the Voodoo 2 and turned on my computer a message appeared saying "New hardware found; PCI Multimedia Video Device" after which the Add New Hardware Wizard starts.
The first page says this:
This wizard searhes for new drivers for:
PCI Multimedia Video Device
A device driver is a software program that makes a hardware device work.
I click on Next here and then the next page gives me two options:
What do you want Windows to do?
( ) Search for the best driver for your device (Recommended).
( ) Display a list of all the drivers in a specific location, so you can select the driver you want.
I select the first option and click Next and then it gives me several options:
Windows will search for new drivers in it's driver database on your hard drive, and in any of the following selected locations. […]
Windows will search for new drivers in it's driver database on your hard drive, and in any of the following selected locations. Click next to start the search.
[ ] Floppy disk drives.
[ ] CD-ROM Drive
[ ] Microsoft Windows Update
[ ] Specify a location:
I put a check mark only on the last option and browse to the directory that i extracted the drivers in, which is C:\voodoo2. When i click on Next i get the following:
Windows was unable to find a driver for this device.
If you do not want to install a driver now, click Next.
To search again, click Back.
I tried with several different driver versions from falconfly but there's no difference. I also tried manually clicking on voodoo2.inf and selecting Install but that also does nothing. Any ideas what the problem is? Am i doing something wrong? I have Windows 98 SE and i am downloading drivers for this os.
Also will games work on the v2 if i just copy the dll files from the v2 driver folder and only actually install the v3 drivers?
Update: I selected "Display a list of all the drivers in a specific location, so you can select the driver you want." instead, then chose "Sound, video and game controllers", selected 3DFX, clicked on Have Disk and navigated to the voodoo2 driver folder, it warned me that this driver was not written specifically for my device but i clicked next anyway and it installed, but now i get this error when windows starts - "_GlideInitEvironment: glide2x.dll expected Voodoo^2, none detected". Could the card be broken? I have the passthrough cable installed and the monitor is connected to the voodoo 2, so i dunno how am i even getting anything on the screen if it's dead.