https://web.archive.org/web/19971108135613/ht … ata/ultrafx.pdf

Drivers (NT4.0 only? - ultrafx.exe) seem long gone

How are the generic 3dlabs drivers?

also the cat has chosen

Wise choice

Putas wrote on 2021-01-28, 05:19:

How are the generic 3dlabs drivers?

I'd like to know too, never before used their generic ones.....as these cards are quite rare.....and till recently i was too lazy to instal win nt.....(but i seen some nt drivers working even on xp)

Read on a (translated)Russian forum of someone with this card and again, no drivers - they tried the 3Dlabs drivers and said they didn't work 🙁

@PC Hoarder Patrol thanks for that document! I wasn't able to find it.

I will give the generic drivers a shot, even though the chances of them working are close to 0. In the meantime I was able to find a SCSI cable, and sadly, there are no drivers on those disks.

sdz wrote on 2021-01-29, 12:11:

@PC Hoarder Patrol thanks for that document! I wasn't able to find it.

I will give the generic drivers a shot, even though the chances of them working are close to 0. In the meantime I was able to find a SCSI cable, and sadly, there are no drivers on those disks.

Have you ever got this card running?

No, unfortunately. I still hope I'll find the driver someday.

sdz wrote on 2021-10-25, 09:29:

No, unfortunately. I still hope I'll find the driver someday.

Did you manage to extract the drivers from the HDD you mentioned? I've tried searching for anything on their archived website, but unfortunately the drivers were on their FTP server, which was not mirrored by archive.org. I also can't find any information about who bought them. There's always a chance that the company, who bought them, still offered the downloads.

There were no drivers on the HDDs. At some point, another video card was installed in the system, and someone did a clean install. Only those drivers were there, no trace of the ultrafx drivers.

Bump?

A last bump?

sdz wrote on 2024-01-03, 10:36:

A last bump?

Sorry no luck 🙁

Did another web trawl, this time based on all their archived filenames (https://web.archive.org/web/19970506102610/ht … tml/gfxdrv.html) and the only ones I was successful with were the latest v4.0.55 NT 4.0 drivers for the ELITE2 / TRUEfx / TRUEfx Pro (which also uses the 3Dlabs GLiNT 500TX), but they seem to have moved on quickly to the ULTRAfx2 which used twin GLiNT MX processors and a different driver set. Guess the other drivers can be considered as firmly lost.

Far as NeTpower goes, they apparently ran out of money in 1998, after investors pulled the plug on them, and were put up for sale - don't seem to have been any takers and they were wound up late 90s / early 2000s

Thanks for trying, again!

I tried searching in various ways, wayback machine and the Mamont FTP search thing, no luck, it doesn't seem to be on the internet.
Maybe someone has the driver somewhere... one can hope. It would be a real shame to not get this card running and run some benchmarks, games, etc.

Thanks for the extra info! I was unable to find out what happened to NetPower.