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Toss up on Voodoo2 Voodoo3 combination

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First post, by GiSWiG

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I've done a bunch of reasearch but not come to a final conclusion:

Do I put a Voodoo2 in with a Voodoo3 AGP or not?
It will be a P3 build covering a lot of Voodoo games. Mechwarrior 2 Titanium Trilogy might be one.

Would I be better served putting the Voodoo2 in an Athlon 64 build for DOSBox under Windows XP?

What games work on a Voodoo2 but not a Voodoo3?

I've looked at the "Voodoo 2 DOS Glide compatibility matrix" topic (Voodoo 2 DOS Glide compatibility matrix) and there is mention of a Voodoo 3 compatibility list but I cannot find it. Some say it is on page 2 but it looks like there is a broken link to the image there.

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Reply 1 of 2, by leileilol

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You can use both but you'll have to install drivers in a specific order. V2 first, then V3. That way you'll get V3 as your primary device in Direct3D and Glide as well as its OpenGL ICD. For games you want to explicitly use the Voodoo2 for, you can toss the V2 driver's glide dlls/fxmmemap.vxd at whatever game folder you want.

There's also a matter of preference. You might like the single-pass 4x1 filtering on V2 better than the 4-pass 4x1 filtering on V3 for image clarity reasons 😀

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Reply 2 of 2, by GiSWiG

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I know the V2 then V3 thing; I think I read a post of yours stating that. I did that and it worked great. (Thanks) Tombraider didn't work with the V2 but did with the V3 just fine. I must admit, I didn't use the batch file with enviroment varriables cause I didn't know before I got my V3 and put it in.

My question is more of a toss up between using a V2 and V3 or just a V3 and put the V2 in an XP build for using a true Voodoo card in DOSBox and not just a wrapper.

What games will I miss out on without the V2 that just won't work on the V3? And will those games work in DOSBox with hardware glide?

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