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Re: Voodoo 1 Problem, texture glitches.

Posted on 2021-05-02, 08:14

Hello everyone, I basically took a break from retro computing for the last four years or so. Mostly just keeping the working machines running, occasionally playing some games. An HDD failure in my main Dual PIII WIN98SE machine cause me to get back into it. Thanks for the replies in the thread since …

Re: Voodoo 1 Problem, texture glitches.

Posted on 2017-02-14, 22:56

Sometimes a card doen't work and no damage can be found. Too bad, that's electronics.... But MOST vooodoo1 and 2 cards i've seen (quit a few) that had a problem had some form of physical damage. Missing components or damaged legs on the chips, creating a short or some other fault. Sometimes big …

Re: Voodoo 1 Problem, texture glitches.

Posted on 2017-02-14, 13:21

Having the exact same issue with 3 cards in a row is massively unlikely. I assume You have tried another VGA cable? How about trying an LCD monitor? This is becoming one of those situations where the solution will be whatever is the only thing You haven't tried, no matter how impossible it might …

Re: Voodoo 1 Problem, texture glitches.

Posted on 2017-02-14, 02:08

Well, I hoped I wouldn't have to post here again, but I figured you'd appreciate an update. Here is everything as it happened. I ordered the first Guillemot Maxi Gamer 3D, it arrived, it was broken, I sent it back. In the time from then until now, I have gotten two more Voodoo 1 cards. They all have …

Re: Voodoo 1 Problem, texture glitches.

Posted on 2017-01-20, 16:02

Voodoo1 can be very picky with pci bus setting and drivers. Try a 3rd party driver from 3dfxzone.it and be sure your pci bus is at 33mhz. These problems are not do to the speed of your CPU or fsb but driver/pci bus speeds. I had a voodoo1 in a Athlon64x2 system before and it was fine. Same with p4 …

Re: Voodoo 1 Problem, texture glitches.

Posted on 2017-01-19, 14:36

First off, I didn't post here yesterday because I contacted the seller on ebay. He asked me to try a few more tricks that sadly didn't help. He offered me a full refund, which I accepted. The card is now on it's way back to him. The following information partains to testing done before contacting …

Re: Voodoo 1 Problem, texture glitches.

Posted on 2017-01-18, 02:51

I tried the original PC now with the procedure I detailed above and it still artifacts. The Soundblaster Live theory I edited into my last post also doesn't work. I cannot get this card to work reliably in two out of three machines. Why the IBM works, I have no clue but it's not much use to me since …

Re: Voodoo 1 Problem, texture glitches.

Posted on 2017-01-18, 01:43

Guys, I feel like I don't know what's real anymore. :confused: I put the Voodoo and the P2 266 into my IBM 300PL (see signature) to test it. I cannot get the card to artifact, I even overclocked it slightly to 53MHz and it works fine even after more than 5 reboots and more than an hour of testing So …

Re: Voodoo 1 Problem, texture glitches.

Posted on 2017-01-17, 03:38

Ok quite a few things you can try. These are just things I would do myself, not things that I know will fix it: - Put the Voodoo into another PCI slot - Remove PCI cards for testing (Ethernet, Sound) - Load BIOS defaults - Check BIOS for any PCI timing related options and play around with those The …

Re: Voodoo 1 Problem, texture glitches.

Posted on 2017-01-17, 02:58

Try a more recent driver or 3rd party driver from 3dfxzone.it or falconfly.de I have tried the original Guillemot Maxi Gamer 3D driver, the latest reference driver from falconfly.de as well as the oldest Diamond Monster 3D driver from there. I read in a thread here that that could help. The first …

Re: Voodoo 1 Problem, texture glitches.

Posted on 2017-01-17, 01:23

Check if it doesn't get overclocked by the driver and make sure it runs at the stock 50mhz. Maybe try and downclock it a bit. I tried setting the core clock to stock 50mhz. Didn't help. I don't want to downclock, I at least want stock clocks. Also make sure the pci connector is clean and try every …

Voodoo 1 Problem, texture glitches.

Posted on 2017-01-16, 17:28

Hello, I finally got myself an original 3dfx Voodoo, specifically a Guillemot Maxi Gamer 3D. I put it into a freshly built machine, installed the newest reference drivers and was overjoyed when it ran NFS IISE perfectly. The dread started to set in when I tried glQuake. The console screen before the …

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