Ok, so...I know what 3dfx was/is. But what does this card do?
Is it DirectX? Do games need special patches to use the 3D on this card?
Anyone know of a good repository then for patches for this card?
Just looking for some help 😀 Thanks guys.
It's one of 'those' Direct3D cards that were pretty much made for Direct3D and has trouble on anything OpenGL. swaaye has one I believe and he knows more about it than I do.
Yeah as leileilol says it's a Direct3D compatible card. D3D 5/6. You just go get yourself some the G200 driver for your OS from Matrox's site and then run whatever 1996-2000 games that are fast enough and look right.
OpenGL is also supported. Popular titles back in the time such as Quake2, Half-life etc. also works fine with it.
There's a bug in the OpenGL driver in the last G200 driver package. It breaks transparent water in at least Quake 2. The way around this is to get the final G400 driver package, extract the G200 ICD file it also includes, and replace the older installed one.
That G200 bug not only breaks transparent water in Quake 2, but every transparency / translucency effect in OpenGL. I guess they completely broke alpha blending in last G200 driver release and never cared to fix it. Why they instead fixed G200 ICD in later G400 driver releases is still a mystery to me.
Thanks guys 😀 ahhh bum, I'm still hanging out to come across a legit voodoo 1 cards. I'll keep trawling the second-hand stores, but a decent DirectX card for my win98 rig isn't such a bad thing I guess.
It is certainly the perfect match for a Voodoo 1 / 2. If you can't find one of these, PM me.
