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Voodoo 3 2000 + 1 combo both PCI for DOS

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First post, by Limpem

Posted on 2020-04-28, 10:42

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Hey everyone,

I am having difficulty getting my voodoo setup running for native DOS 6.22 gaming.

I have a voodoo 3 2000 pci which I want to use for non-static linked 3dfx dos games and fast 2d.
I want to combine this card with a voodoo 1 for the static-linked games.

According to other pages I read this should be a nice combo, but I can't get it to work.
In the dos games I placed the appropriate glide2x.ovl for the card I want to use in the gamefolder.
This works for the voodoo 3 compatible games (for example tombraider) but when I try to run voodoo 1 games I lose video signal (no sync according to the monitor) and the system seems to crash.

When I remove the voodoo 3 and use the onboard ati card, the voodoo 1 games work fine.
I can't get the voodoo 1 to work in windows 98 (for testing) when the voodoo 3 is installed, but also works fine with the onboard card.

Am I forgetting an important step or should I only consider this setup with an agp voodoo 3 card (unfortunately my system doesn't have a agp slot)?
Has anyone else been able to get this setup working?

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Reply 1 of 4, by Limpem

Posted on 2020-04-28, 17:48

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I did some additional testing with a voodoo 2 card instead of the voodoo 1.
If I try to run tombraider with the voodoo 2's glide2x.ovl file, it will run tombraider with the voodoo 2 without any problems.
When I try to run a static linked voodoo 1 game with the appropriate .bat file I get the same problem as described above.
After removing the voodoo 3 card the static linked games run fine with the .bat file.

Reply 2 of 4, by cyclone3d

Posted on 2020-04-28, 18:30

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Maybe your V3 and V1 cards don't like each other.

Are the PCI slots sharing an IRQ?

If they are, try moving one of them to a different slot and see if that helps.

Even if they aren't using the same IRQ, try changing the IRQ of the V3 and/or the V1 through the BIOS to see if that makes a difference.

What are the specs of the rest of your system?

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Reply 3 of 4, by Limpem

Posted on 2020-04-28, 20:48

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Thanks for the suggestions. 😀

My specs are:
System = IBM Aptiva 2176 (board has socket 7 and 430hx chipset)
Onboard gpu = ATI Rage
CPU = Intel Pentium MMX Overdrive 200 Mhz
Memory = 64MB EDO Ram
Cache = 512KB L2 cache added
Sound = AWE64 Gold
Network = 3Com EtherLink III ISA
Storage = 6GB HDD and 8GB SDHC adapter to IDE

The board has only 2 pci slots, so I can't swap too much around.
I can't select a specific IRQ in the BIOS for each card, but I can Disable specific IRQ's.

When I looked in Windows 98 in device manager I saw only an IRQ at the voodoo 3 (irq 11) and no IRQ's for the voodoo card assigned.
After disabling IRQ 11 in the bios the voodoo 3 got assigned to irq 9 but this didn't solve the issue unfortunately.

Reply 4 of 4, by Limpem

Posted on 2020-04-29, 22:34

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Today I tested the voodoo3 and voodoo1 in another system, also a pentium 1.
The problem was identical as in the Aptiva.
I also had the opportunity to replace the voodoo3 with a banshee (pci) and a voodoo4 (pci), they both didn't work with a voodoo1 or voodoo2.
My guess is I am just out of luck with this setup and should find a board with agp and a voodoo3 agp as a replacement.

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