First post, by murrayman
Alright, so I ordered this card a couple days ago and just got it in today. Checked the board over physically, don't see any missing resistors or broken traces off hand (attached photos just in case I missed something y'all can find). Card actually looks fantastic.
Swapped it into my Packard Bell, which already had a Diamond Monster 3D II installed and running reference 3.02.02 drivers with no issues, and Win95 OSR2 immediately identified the card no problem. But once it was finished booting, I got the infamous "_GlideInitEnvironment:glide2x.dll expected Voodoo^2, none detected" error. Sure enough, dxdiag didn't detect the card for 3D rendering, and Glide games (D2_3DFX, Freespace, etc) would crash upon opening. Opening up display settings and going to the V2-1000 tab freezes the window, but not anything else, just as described on the listing. System works fine otherwise.
Tried pairing it up with my working Diamond card in SLI, and although I didn't get the error message, dxdiag, all Glide API games, and the V2-1000 tab still had the same issues.
Already used 3dfxuninst and dcpro to clean the drivers with each installation attempt, no benefit.
What would be the best next step to take here? Listing said it worked fine for Glide API games when they had it, so I'm tempted to try it in one of my Win98 rigs and / or with different drivers, but that of course doesn't fix whatever the root issue here is. I'm a V3/4/5 veteran, not at all familiar with these older 1 and 2 cards.
P3B-F 1.04, PIII 1k, 512MB PC133, GF DDR 32MB + DM3DII 12MB SLI, SB0100
P3B-F 1.03, PIII 700, 384MB PC100, V5 AGP, SB0160
CP 5170, PII 350, 256MB PC100, Rage LT 2MB, ESS 1869
PB M S610, PMMX 233, 128MB EDO66, DM3D 4MB, Aztech