If that is a Intel 430TX chipset then you should drop to 64mb ram, you will get more performance. The 430tx can only cache up to 64mb.

Mechwarrior 2 should run well on that machine and there is a 3dfx version.

Final Fantasy VII, Wipeout XL and Mortal Kombat 4 will run well on that system. The first two are D3D games but work just fine on a Voodoo1.

I have a similar rig and have posted some of my benchmarks and impressions here in case you're curious.

Try Screamer Rally - that was my favorite game from "early 3dfx era". It should work really good on your machine (friend of mine played it on P100 or P120 with Voodoo Rush).

Unreal will run (of course) but I'd think you'd get a way better Unreal gaming experience on a Pentium II with Voodoo 2/3. I have it installed on my P3/450 with V3 and still think that Unreal looks very nice. Especially the menu-scene 😀. Nevertheless it's always good to go 'back' and run it on a Voodoo Graphics.

Others on the list that pop in my mind right away:
- Quake II
- Interstate '76
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
- DethKarz (perhaps same deal as Unreal but should run and look nice on a tweaked Voodoo Graphics 😀).
- G-Police
- Turok
- Speed Busters

And don't forget techdemos! 3Dfx Wizard of Tower and Valley of Ra. Especially that last one which is from April 1997 and fits the scene and technology that 3Dfx was going after at the time.

Perhaps it's also an idea to find demo discs of that era that came with magazines or were bundled with retail Voodoo cards. On Archive.org you can probably find all the PC Gamer Cover CD's and such. Loads of stuff! 😀

Grand theft auto

Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
POD
Mech Warrior 2

Thanks for the replies!

I found them very helpful!

I installed so far
- wipeout xl - Very impressed with the graphics it looks beautiful to me!
- mechwarrior 2 - Played the original in dos 2d back in the days so also impressed with the difference

Next on the list from the suggestions:
- Gpolice - didnt know there was 3dfx, very excited about this title always loved the look of this game but don't think my dx2 ran it well
- Turok - Same as Gpolice

- interstate 76 Added to my list however will have to get through the other titles
- Final fantasy - Same as above

All the other titles I still have to look up but thank you for ever single title I am happy to have games to keep trying

Joseph_Joestar Thank you for sharing your thread, it is excellent to see a very similar machine for comparison and some hints

Also I will look at swapping in a 1x64 ram chip to get some performance boost. I was always under the impression the chipset limitation would still cache the first 64mb then if anything uses more the rest of the ram would be accessed slower

Ignition, highly underrated gem

treeman wrote on 2021-07-13, 23:40:

Also I will look at swapping in a 1x64 ram chip to get some performance boost. I was always under the impression the chipset limitation would still cache the first 64mb then if anything uses more the rest of the ram would be accessed slower

It does it backwards I believe, so the first 192mb will be slow, no idea why! 64mb should give you a small but noticable speed increase.

Viper Racing, Battlezone, Heavy Gear, Wing Commander Prophecy. Also, I'm pretty sure there was a 3dfx version of EF2000.

treeman wrote on 2021-07-13, 23:40:

Joseph_Joestar Thank you for sharing your thread, it is excellent to see a very similar machine for comparison and some hints

Thanks to Joseph's thread I tried Half Life on my P200+Voodoo1 box this week. Definitely playable, which is quite a trip on this hardware. Worth a go.

luk1999 wrote on 2021-07-13, 16:48:

Try Screamer Rally - that was my favorite game from "early 3dfx era". It should work really good on your machine (friend of mine played it on P100 or P120 with Voodoo Rush).

Screamer 2, too.

I remember playing Half Life back then in 1998 on my Celly 266, PCChips with Ali chipset and Voodoo Rush 6 MB. Performance was okay (15-25 fps) when there was not much action on screen. But later in game when more enemies attacked you at once or during explosions framerate often dropped under 10 fps.

I've also seen HL on my friend's machine (Celly 433, PCChips on i440BX, Voodoo 4 MB) and while it worked significantly better, it was still far from stable 20 - 25 fps in more demanding moments.

That's why I think that at least PII/PIII 450 MHz is minimum for playing this game comfortable using Glide. 😀.

Another nice game (and totally forgotten) is SIN. It was a bit less demanding than HL IIRC, so it should work okay on P233 with V1.

Thanks for all the suggestions, will keep me busy for a while. I haven't had time yet to play any games but this weekend I am going to have some fun 😀