First post, by AngieAndretti
I've built myself a beloved new retro Win98SE/DOS PC around an ASUS P2B-D motherboard and a 1GHz Coppermine PIII CPU. Primary GPU is nVidia GeForce2 GTS and I also have a pair of Voodoo2's in SLI. Overall I've gotten the machine pretty well squared away and stable - and may I say that you guys here have been quite helpful already without my saying so until this point - but I have one issue I've been unable to make any progress on troubleshooting myself: Windows-based Glide games work just fine, statically-linked DOS games designed for the original Voodoo card also work, but I cannot get the system working with DOS-based Glide EXE's that were actually designed for the Voodoo2!
When running a non-statically-linked DOS Glide app, the screen goes black and the Voodoo2's appear to have engaged but there is no output/sound/etc. Examples of games tested would include Screamer 2 and Descent 2. In both cases the Voodoo patch works fine but the Voodoo2 patch just hangs up. I've even downloaded an old Glide 2&3 diagnostics kit that provides 64 small test EXE's in the Glide 2 folder, 32 for DOS-mode and 32 for Win9x, that test basic functions of the Voodoo2 cards - and I get the same result running these basic tests - the Windows tests work but the DOS tests hang. I can usually CTRL+ALT+DEL, close program, and recover the system to the Windows desktop but the DOS application always hangs.
The Voodoo2's are Diamond Monster 3D II's, each with 12mb RAM, and I'm using the FastVoodoo2 4.6 drivers. I have also tried the last reference drivers, 3.02.02 I believe, with identical results. I should also mention that I'm running the "Unofficial Service Pack 3" for Win98SE and I haven't tested this without it installed but I believe that Phil of PhilsComputerLab ran USP3 on his Win98SE Voodoo2 SLI PC project shown on YouTube - but he definitely had Screamer 2 and Descent 2 working in that video! I've verified that Glide2x.ovl exists in the Windows directory, which is included in the path variable (and copying the file to the game's folder makes no difference either.)
I'm stumped. Does anyone have any ideas please??