I just got done installing dx7 and still same issues, apparently these cards arnt capable of direct3d all ive found other online having problems even in articles from 2000 people where returning these cards to get a 3dfx.

Better question is how the hell did 3dfx lose to nvidia.

All my TNT2 cards are working just as good as all my Voodoo3 cards.
So I guess the issue might be related to something else.
I have actually not seen the issue that you are reporting on my cards.

I have the following ones.
Asus TNT2-Pro (32mb, agp)
Compaq TNT2-Ultra (32mb, agp)

As said, they are working just as good as my two Compaq V3-3500.

I tossed the cruddy tnt and throw in Matrox G450 I plan on getting a G400 Max, but for now the 450 runs really well under direct3d and unreal is now playable. Good old trusty Matrox awesome driver support. I wish they still made gaming cards 😢

Matrox are great for a gaming rig of this era. Good choice using it.
I too would wish that Matrox were still making gaming cards, as well as I wish that 3DfX would still be alive.
On the other hand, Matrox probably did wise in leaving the consumer market.
They might have suffered a similair fate as 3DfX did. nVidia and Ati were better at making cards
from around 2000 and onwards.
Shure there are Voodoo5, though nVidia and Ati allways delivered more bang for the bucks.

It's like the Amiga vs. Pc all over again. Commodore management were simply just stupid.
Wasting money on anything else than development, leaving the enginers scrapping for stuff, and making
the enginers devellop in their sparetime and taking sidejobs in other companies.
Commodore ended up, only being able to pay for parts directly, no one would give them credit.
Dave Haynie have said a lot of times, that the success of the Amiga is not to be creditted Commodore.
The success are to be found in the user, and the user have shown that the user in some way or another
are the real owner of the Amiga platform. Yes they are few. They are just the real heroes.
For me, it is the user base and the engineers (Dave Haynie, Bill Herd and so on) that are the ones
that truly owns the Amiga and those that made it happen. Not the last owners of the old Commodore.
And shurely not the management that drowe this company to the ground.

Back on topic... You could check the internet, to see if your motherboard has some issues.
I am speaking about searching for various forum posts on other sites around the time the board was new.

I was using a brand new still in box plastic 440bx-2 motherboard I swapped that out with my older 440bx\zx board after replacing all 10 caps on it and still had issues with direct3d with the TnT2, but the 400 max is a strong opponent against the TnT anyways, but in my eyes the card that works is the better of the two.