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Voodoo 2 graphic artifacts.

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First post, by trisoret

Posted on 2014-07-05, 23:42

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Hello,

I have an old Pentium Celeron MMX 300Mhz, running a 3dfx Voodoo 2 through an ATI Rage Pro. I'm using AWE 64 for sound and everything seems to be running just great. Well except for a few games...Colin McRae Rally starts up normally but when it gets to the actual gameplay, artifacts are displayed all over the screen making it a bit hard to see what is going on.

Another game that has the same issue (but in a lower dose) is Eidos' Ofiicial Formula One Racing. I'm using the FastVoodoo 2 4.6 driver and Direct X 9 on Windows 98.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Reply 1 of 9, by leileilol

Posted on 2014-07-05, 23:55

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Is it possible you might have the gamma too high? Voodoos go into an acid trip that way.

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Reply 2 of 9, by obobskivich

Posted on 2014-07-06, 00:41

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Is anything overheating?

Reply 3 of 9, by trisoret

Posted on 2014-07-06, 00:46

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Well, the Gamma is set at 1.30 which is pretty normal and I don't anything is overheating mainly because other games are working perfectly.

Reply 4 of 9, by konc

Posted on 2014-07-06, 08:17

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I remember having the same issues with artifact in Colin McRae. It's a game I like a lot and I've played it throughout the years in many different configurations and hardware, artifacts problems were definitely there in some cases. Never figured out why. Also I believe that this game doesn't even use the voodoo, so maybe it's not a problem from your side? Especially when most other things work correctly.

Reply 5 of 9, by Gamecollector

Posted on 2014-07-06, 12:38

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Colin McRae Rally is d3d game. No glide API.

Asus P4P800 SE/Pentium4 3.2E/2 Gb DDR400B,
Radeon HD3850 Agp (Sapphire), Catalyst 14.4 (XpProSp3).
Voodoo2 12 MB SLI, Win2k drivers 1.02.00 (XpProSp3).

Reply 6 of 9, by leileilol

Posted on 2014-07-06, 13:35

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but so was ReVolt and that can occasionally send the Voodoo into artifact hell.

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Reply 7 of 9, by trisoret

Posted on 2014-07-06, 16:24

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Thanks for replying everyone. I tried Nightmare Creatures (on 3dfx mode) now and it looks horrible with artifacts.

I reinstalled my old driver from 1998 with the same result. I'm beginning to think that it might be a hardware problem.

Please note that everything was working great until a week ago when I took the whole PC apart, cleaned it then rebuilt it.

Reply 8 of 9, by Gamecollector

Posted on 2014-07-06, 16:28

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http://www.zeus-software.com/forum/viewtopic. … =10&t=672#p3471
3dfx games list.
No Re-Volt and Nightmare Creatures.
For DX games - try to disable AGP texturing in dxdiag.

Asus P4P800 SE/Pentium4 3.2E/2 Gb DDR400B,
Radeon HD3850 Agp (Sapphire), Catalyst 14.4 (XpProSp3).
Voodoo2 12 MB SLI, Win2k drivers 1.02.00 (XpProSp3).

Reply 9 of 9, by trisoret

Posted on 2014-07-07, 02:06

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Thank you all for your help, it turned out that my Voodoo 2 was, unfortunately, slowly dying. Now no glide games are working whatsoever. I'll be getting a new card tomorrow.

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