First post, by acl
- Rank
- Oldbie
Hi,
I recently obtained a pair of Voodoo 1 cards. One Guillemot Maxi Gamer and an unidentified one (no name ?).
I bought them together for cheap but untested.
And i got a strange issue. Both cards worked. But the Guillemot seems to have transparency problems when using POD (the only Glide game i tested).
But when playing HalfLife Uplink with opengl-3dfx driver, no issue at all...
I used the same setup. Same driver. Same everything. I just shut down the system, swap the cards, "re-detect" the driver (probably not necessary), reboot ant try.
One card renders POD correctly, the other does not. I tried 2 times, with a total system re-installation. Same issue.
See attached screenshot for illustration. (featuring my 25yo pirated copy of POD. I bought it digital last year to repent my two decades of criminality. "Don't copy that floppy" convinced me)
I used the following system for testing. Fresh install (2 times) :
- Celeron 300A @450 / Gigabyte GA-6VXE+ (Rev4.1) / ATI MACH64 PCI / Vortex advantage / Windows 98SE
- POD with 2.0 3dfx patch
- Half-Life : Uplink opengl-3dfx renderer
I'm not very experienced with 3dfx cards (recent acquisition) but is it possible to have 2 different bios/firmware with differences ?
The card looks great, no sign of physical damage. very clean. Maybe caused by the Celeron overclocking (but the 100Mhz FSB should have the proper ratio to ensure a good PCI frequency)
If someone comes with a troubleshooting idea, i'm all ears !
Thanks a lot
"Hello, my friend. Stay awhile and listen..."
My collection (not up to date)