Motorhead's menu is 640x400x8@70hz. i'd assume your monitor hates that. Also, the default res for the Glide driver when a Voodoo's detected is 512x384x16, so it'll be switching to that during demo mode while nothing is yet configured.

arcofreccia wrote on 2026-09-04, 09:56:

Could this be an issue with the LCD monitor? Thank you

Well not that the LCD monitor is broken, but when you start exploring older PC software they can use video modes that are no longer supported on modern LCD monitors.

leileilol wrote on Yesterday, 13:06:

Motorhead's menu is 640x400x8@70hz. i'd assume your monitor hates that. Also, the default res for the Glide driver when a Voodoo's detected is 512x384x16, so it'll be switching to that during demo mode while nothing is yet configured.

The strange thing is that, with the same monitor but on the second PC mentioned in my signature, Motorhead works fine. On the PC with the Pentium 200 MMX, the lowest resolution available in the Windows settings is 640x480. But, as I said, Motorhead works on another PC using the same monitor

NeoG_ wrote on Yesterday, 13:21:

arcofreccia wrote on 2026-09-04, 09:56:

Could this be an issue with the LCD monitor? Thank you

Well not that the LCD monitor is broken, but when you start exploring older PC software they can use video modes that are no longer supported on modern LCD monitors.

The strange thing is that when I use the same monitor but with the second PC listed in my signature, Motorhead works 🤔

arcofreccia wrote on Yesterday, 16:08:

The strange thing is that when I use the same monitor but with the second PC listed in my signature, Motorhead works 🤔

The native 512x384 mode is not produced by the voodoo5, by the time it came out they made the more sensible choice of scan doubling that mode to 1024x768 like most graphics cards do. So it makes sense that it would only happen in a system with an original Voodoo Graphics card.

NeoG_ wrote on Yesterday, 23:39:

arcofreccia wrote on Yesterday, 16:08:

The strange thing is that when I use the same monitor but with the second PC listed in my signature, Motorhead works 🤔

The native 512x384 mode is not produced by the voodoo5, by the time it came out they made the more sensible choice of scan doubling that mode to 1024x768 like most graphics cards do. So it makes sense that it would only happen in a system with an original Voodoo Graphics card.

To be honest, I didn't quite understand—what does "original Voodoo card" mean? Is the Diamond Monster 3D less "original" than a Voodoo 5?

arcofreccia wrote on Today, 06:30:

To be honest, I didn't quite understand—what does "original Voodoo card" mean? Is the Diamond Monster 3D less "original" than a Voodoo 5?

The first generation of Voodoo cards from 1996, aka "Voodoo Graphics"

NeoG_ wrote on Today, 06:43:

arcofreccia wrote on Today, 06:30:

To be honest, I didn't quite understand—what does "original Voodoo card" mean? Is the Diamond Monster 3D less "original" than a Voodoo 5?

The first generation of Voodoo cards from 1996, aka "Voodoo Graphics"

Right, OK. So there’s absolutely no way to get Motorhead to work on the Voodoo 1? The only option is to try another monitor, isn’t it?

arcofreccia wrote on Today, 06:46:

Right, OK. So there’s absolutely no way to get Motorhead to work on the Voodoo 1? The only option is to try another monitor, isn’t it?

I'm not familiar with the game, but many games of the time stored the selected display resolution in a settings file in the game directory, maybe the game can be moved out of the incompatible display mode to 640x480 which should work with LCD monitors.

It does depend on the game, Gex: Enter The Gecko for example only runs at 512x384. But GLQuake can run at both resolutions.

NeoG_ wrote on Today, 06:56:

arcofreccia wrote on Today, 06:46:

Right, OK. So there’s absolutely no way to get Motorhead to work on the Voodoo 1? The only option is to try another monitor, isn’t it?

I'm not familiar with the game, but many games of the time stored the selected display resolution in a settings file in the game directory, maybe the game can be moved out of the incompatible display mode to 640x480 which should work with LCD monitors.

It does depend on the game, Gex: Enter The Gecko for example only runs at 512x384. But GLQuake can run at both resolutions.

So, if I connect my PC to a CRT monitor, it’s likely that Motorhead will work