Go to Control Panel, and then I think it's Display, and then I think you can then see extra options for the Diamond card there. What happens if you try the test button? I know there's a test button for that card, after you install that Diamond driver.

retro games 100 wrote:

Go to Control Panel, and then I think it's Display, and then I think you can then see extra options for the Diamond card there. What happens if you try the test button? I know there's a test button for that card, after you install that Diamond driver.

I am not at home at the moment. But I did click that test button last night and nothing happened. So do you think I am using the correct driver?

this is the driver i use for my orchid rightous 3d voodoo 1

http://www.falconfly.de/downloads/voodoo1-30100.zip

seems to work for me i know when the voodoos working because i hear the relays click

recoil2525 wrote:

this is the driver i use for my orchid rightous 3d voodoo 1

http://www.falconfly.de/downloads/voodoo1-30100.zip

seems to work for me i know when the voodoos working because i hear the relays click

I will try that one when I get home. So does DOS need a driver loaded? Which games would you suggest would be good on a PII 300Mhz Voodoo 1 system?

Presumably you are running a version of quake that can use glide. glquake for example, though i think there are later ones.

In the driver you can sometimes set a splash screen to appear, eg. a full-screen 3dfx symbol or spinning logo to announce the voodoo card kicking in.

ratfink wrote:

Presumably you are running a version of quake that can use glide. glquake for example, though i think there are later ones.

In the driver you can sometimes set a splash screen to appear, eg. a full-screen 3dfx symbol or spinning logo to announce the voodoo card kicking in.

Yeah it is glquake. I will have to see if I can set it to do that when it is kicking in. So should my system be able to run glquake well?

Not sure what a Voodoo 1 is capable of but I think it should at least run nice at 640.

ratfink wrote:

Not sure what a Voodoo 1 is capable of but I think it should at least run nice at 640.

I hope so! I wish I didn't have to be at work right now. 😢

yes i get the splash screen on some games such as rollcage .i also use tombraider2 and interstate 76 nitro riders to test them and i think hitman code 47 has glide support will have a look later have u had a look at this list for games Windows Glide Games List

recoil2525 wrote:

yes i get the splash screen on some games such as rollcage .i also use tombraider2 and interstate 76 nitro riders to test them and i think hitman code 47 has glide support will have a look later have u had a look at this list for games Windows Glide Games List

Thanks for that lost. That will be useful.

is the link cable of as some of the older cables are a bit garbage .just having a play with my voodoo 1 machine now specs of mine are intel pentium mmx @233mhz / 384mb ram / ati xpert 98 agp 2x 8mb / voodoo 1 4mb / 6.4gb hd / awe 64 runs most things ok but if i need a bit of extra grunt ive got my voodoo 2 sli setup or the voodoo 3 to mess with as well

recoil2525 wrote:

is the link cable of as some of the older cables are a bit garbage .just having a play with my voodoo 1 machine now specs of mine are intel pentium mmx @233mhz / 384mb ram / ati xpert 98 agp 2x 8mb / voodoo 1 4mb / 6.4gb hd / awe 64 runs most things ok but if i need a bit of extra grunt ive got my voodoo 2 sli setup or the voodoo 3 to mess with as well

The link cable is brand new. It's this one:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?It … N82E16812200792

Uninstall the Monster3D driver and install the latest reference driver from the site.
To play 3dfx enabled games in DOS you must have glide2x.ovl and I think another file, on the folder of the game. This file can be found with your drivers. No need for any TSRs and such during boot 😁

F2bnp wrote:

Uninstall the Monster3D driver and install the latest reference driver from the site.
To play 3dfx enabled games in DOS you must have glide2x.ovl and I think another file, on the folder of the game. This file can be found with your drivers. No need for any TSRs and such during boot 😁

Actually, the latest reference driver was the one I tried before the Monster3D Driver. With that one installed Asghan: The Dragon Slayer kept saying it did not detect the card. I also remember copying the files manually in to the game folder for one of the games I tried although I didn't know which file so I copied a bunch of them 🤣. Can't remember which game that was though. I'll have another go at things when I get home. But it is good to know that the latest reference driver is definitely the one to use.

I'll report back the results later on. Thanks everyone.

rick12373 wrote:

retro games 100 wrote:

Go to Control Panel, and then I think it's Display, and then I think you can then see extra options for the Diamond card there. What happens if you try the test button? I know there's a test button for that card, after you install that Diamond driver.

I am not at home at the moment. But I did click that test button last night and nothing happened. So do you think I am using the correct driver?

If nothing happened, then either the driver isn't installed correctly, or the card is defective. Have a really close look at it. Look at the tiny pins that surround the chips. Are any of them "buckled", and consequently touching their neighbouring pins? If the card looks in good physical shape, then for some reason the driver didn't get installed correctly.

The exact problem you are describing has happened to me on more than one occasion, testing a couple of Diamond Monster Voodoo1 cards. After reinstallation of the Diamond driver, it worked for one card. Alas, no reinstallation could save the other. It was defective.

I think if you have been installing various Voodoo1 drivers, then the chances are your system has got a bit confused, and you'll be OK once you uninstall them all, then reinstall just the one you really need.

retro games 100 wrote:

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rick12373 wrote:

retro games 100 wrote:

Go to Control Panel, and then I think it's Display, and then I think you can then see extra options for the Diamond card there. What happens if you try the test button? I know there's a test button for that card, after you install that Diamond driver.

I am not at home at the moment. But I did click that test button last night and nothing happened. So do you think I am using the correct driver?

If nothing happened, then either the driver isn't installed correctly, or the card is defective. Have a really close look at it. Look at the tiny pins that surround the chips. Are any of them "buckled", and consequently touching their neighbouring pins? If the card looks in good physical shape, then for some reason the driver didn't get installed correctly.

The exact problem you are describing has happened to me on more than one occasion, testing a couple of Diamond Monster Voodoo1 cards. After reinstallation of the Diamond driver, it worked for one card. Alas, no reinstallation could save the other. It was defective.

I think if you have been installing various Voodoo1 drivers, then the chances are your system has got a bit confused, and you'll be OK once you uninstall them all, then reinstall just the one you really need.

I looked at uninstalling them when I was messing about but there was nothing in the add/remove programs list relating to the drivers. Should there have been something in that list to uninstall the drivers? Or is there a different way to do it in Windows 98?

I tried reinstalling the driver again and this time when I hit test it says it is going to test at 640 x 480 60hz and when I click ok my monitor goes crazy with lots of wavy lines. If I hit escape it stops testing and I get the screen back. Not sure why it does this. Also, I can't see a way to tell it to test at 85 Hz which is the optimal refresh rate for this monitor.

** Edit **
Just found the section in display settings where you can change the refresh rates for direct 3d and glide. It lets me change the refresh rate to 85 for the direct 3D resolutions but when I try and change it to 85 for glide it says it needs to restart windows in order to do so but when Windows restarts it is back at 60Hz again and when I go to hit the test button it says it will test at 640x480 60Hz again and when I do the screen is garbled again.

Could the Matrox Quick Desk program on the task bar be causing problems?

It seems that whenever I try to play a 3DFX game in Windows it does the garbled screen thing like when it tries to test. It seems that the 3DFX control panel will not let me change the glide refresh rate to anything other than 60Hz which make my monitor go nuts.

!!! I am getting really pissed of with this thing !!! 😢

Do you have the correct monitor (.inf file) installed?

rick12373, I just read another one of your recent Voodoo related posts, and you said:

"When I got home I checked out my Pentium II 300 MHz. It has a Matrox Millennium II in it. The system is working so well that I decided to use this system for a Voodoo 1. Will that Matrox work with it? Or should I switch it for something else?"

Am I correct in assuming that you are trying to get a V1 card working in a system that once had a V2 in it? If this correct, then I feel more strongly now that you have driver issues. If I were you, and I mean that literally, then I would do a clean install of Win9x, on any old test HDD, and just see if you can get the V1 to work. Just to check out whether this thing works or not.