Try using a normal Voodoo patch instead of Voodoo Rush.

Also, remember that later Voodoo 3 (and maybe your Banshee card) drivers only run under Windows DOS command.

Hey there, Zup. I appreciate your reply.

Good point. I forgot to add the question of if "pure DOS Banshee Tomb Raider" is even feasible. Was figuring I would eventually put a Voodoo 1 in the 200 MMX system, but the Banshee (PCI) card fell into my lap - so I decided to see what I could do with it. It didn't seem to work after I got the Banshee drivers installed in Windows, either - but I only tried it once & rather early in my troubleshooting process.

I couldn't get Tomb Raider (1) to work with my Voodoo2 card either, no matter what environment variables I put in, restart in DOS mode, nothing I put in CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT, or DOSSTART.BAT helped. It only worked in software rendering mode.

FFXIhealer wrote:

I couldn't get Tomb Raider (1) to work with my Voodoo2 card either, no matter what environment variables I put in, restart in DOS mode, nothing I put in CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT, or DOSSTART.BAT helped. It only worked in software rendering mode.

Have you tried it with the Voodoo Rush patch? Should go using glide2x.ovl v3.03.00 (6/1999) without much further configuration. Though the Voodoo Graphics patch should also work with the right environment variables, and it's preferable if it works because it actually draws Lara's shadow. With fast machines, the basic toolset includes trying various OVL versions, and lower FSB and CPU speeds.

V3, TR and Voodoo Rush patch work just fine under pure MS-DOS. I've tried this many times. Never tried the Banshee though.

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

V3, TR and Voodoo Rush patch work just fine under pure MS-DOS. I've tried this many times. Never tried the Banshee though.

The TR1 voodoo patch does work with the Banshee as that's what I've had in my DOS build for a while until it decided to go a little faulty, I'd been using the Voodoo patch from the Tomb raider + unfinished business discs, also works with voodoo 2.

firage wrote:

Have you tried it with the Voodoo Rush patch? Should go using glide2x.ovl v3.03.00 (6/1999) without much further configuration. Though the Voodoo Graphics patch should also work with the right environment variables, and it's preferable if it works because it actually draws Lara's shadow. With fast machines, the basic toolset includes trying various OVL versions, and lower FSB and CPU speeds.

I tried it with both patches. I got nada. The system would black screen and lock up. The Voodoo patch got me as far as the first two FMVs for EIDOS and stuff, but then would crash when trying to enter the 3D menu, before you could even start the game.

Likely a DOS configuration issue, seen that before.

Try to boot without EMM386 loaded. This solved the DOS Glide crash issues for me. My system has a 440BX chipset, P3 500E CPU and Voodoo 3 3000 AGP

Could you post your Config.sys and Autoexec.bat contents? IIRC there should be some enviroment variables set in the autoexec.bat, there is for the Voodoo 2, but not 100% sure if they are needed for the banshee

synrgy87 wrote:

Could you post your Config.sys and Autoexec.bat contents? IIRC there should be some enviroment variables set in the autoexec.bat, there is for the Voodoo 2, but not 100% sure if they are needed for the banshee

I am away at the moment and won't have access to my retro rig before the start of July. But, I have not specified any 3dfx environment variables at all in my config files. Just made a separate boot menu entry that omits EMM386 on start.

You may have tried this already, given you've said you have tried modifying config.sys, but have you tried modifying the command.com spec to increase the environment variable memory space? I found I had to do this with my Voodoo2 so that all of the environment variables would set correctly.

E.g.:

1shell=c:\command.com /E:1024

As I see this subject popping up in Google I want to tell my success here:
* DOS 6.22
* Voodoo Banshee

I had the same problem initially, with the glide2.ovl I had in the time, I just upgraded it to a more recent version and it works.
Downloaded it from here: http://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=1 … 2&menustate=2,1

Also for TR not to freeze when accessing the inventory, I have an entry in my config.sys with no EMS, only XMS (i.e. only himem.sys, no emm386.exe).
Got it from Philscomputerlab: "A note regarding MS-DOS mode. I observed that when EMS memory is configured the game will crash when accessing the inventory. Loading MS-DOS mode with XMS memory addresses this issue." - https://www.philscomputerlab.com/tomb-raider.html

Now it works flawlessly.