Are you absolutely certain it's a Rage Pro?

I ask because the previous generation Rage II had no OpenGL hardware support.

Use my ATi drivers and my OpenGL package, but better to download the Full package bundle for Rage.
You need only driver to use OpenGL, OpenGL package is if any of your OpenGL game does not run well.
You get DDraw/3DCIF/Direct3D/OpenGL/DVD hardware acceleration@ATi, not only Direct3D/OpenGL.

Glide2CIF (3DFX and Glide wrapper with ATi3DCIF) Glide/CIF wrapper
XGL200/dgVoodoo (3DFX and Glide wrapper@DX) Re: ATi RagePro drivers and software

Drivers (540/2611 has some newer driver files)
https://hingetee.ee/library/ATiRage2611x3Dx2.7z
Bundle (has OpenGL-s and many other things)
https://hingetee.ee/library/ATi3DRageProSoftwarebundle.7z

My latest 5.40x2611x3D.7z ATi driver download link here:
download/file.php?id=229058

And if you want to try some new Games with your ATiRage3
Here some games that should have good Rage Pro support!
ATi RagePro supported games

Unless I'm wrong, the OpenGl driver for Ati or even Nvidia card is not named "opengl.dll".
I don't know which trick they use, but the OpenGl lib has another name.

Sleaka_J wrote on 2025-12-30, 04:48:

I ask because the previous generation Rage II had no OpenGL hardware support.

Even my old Rage Xplay PCI had OpenGl support.
Bad support, but support.
I would be surprised a Rage 2 doesn't.
I don't exactly remember, but I tried many Ati Rage card ( many "Rage", so difficult to make a list) with Quake 1.
Results were poor, as usual with Ati and OpenGl. Unless you like square explosions and 20/30 fps 😀
But OGL worked.

Sleaka_J wrote on 2025-12-30, 04:48:

Are you absolutely certain it's a Rage Pro?

I ask because the previous generation Rage II had no OpenGL hardware support.

Just got back to my computer, sorry for the delay in responding! Yes it's an AGPx2 Rage Pro Turbo for certain, says it on the chip.

marxveix wrote on 2025-12-30, 09:14:

Use my ATi drivers and my OpenGL package, but better to download the Full package bundle for Rage. You need only driver to use O […]
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Use my ATi drivers and my OpenGL package, but better to download the Full package bundle for Rage.
You need only driver to use OpenGL, OpenGL package is if any of your OpenGL game does not run well.
You get DDraw/3DCIF/Direct3D/OpenGL/DVD hardware acceleration@ATi, not only Direct3D/OpenGL.

Glide2CIF (3DFX and Glide wrapper with ATi3DCIF) Glide/CIF wrapper
XGL200/dgVoodoo (3DFX and Glide wrapper@DX) Re: ATi RagePro drivers and software

Drivers (540/2611 has some newer driver files)
https://hingetee.ee/library/ATiRage2611x3Dx2.7z
Bundle (has OpenGL-s and many other things)
https://hingetee.ee/library/ATi3DRageProSoftwarebundle.7z

My latest 5.40x2611x3D.7z ATi driver download link here:
download/file.php?id=229058

And if you want to try some new Games with your ATiRage3
Here some games that should have good Rage Pro support!
ATi RagePro supported games

Thank you for your reply!

So, I downloaded the bundle and unpacked it. I ran the driver installation in the folder "5.40x2611x3D" and it all installs. The driver is certainly operating in Windows and D3D.

absolutely nothing from OpenGL though. Quake II fails and says hardware acceleration not found, and if I run the demo in your package called "D3D-OGL Bencmark" then that works fine for D3D and bombs out immediately on trying it in OpenGL mode.

Do I need to install OpenGL separately somehow?

I really appreciate your advice. This isn't really my area of expertise.

Use High Color 16bit at you desktop color and you are good to go with Rage Pro and OpenGL

nali wrote on 2025-12-30, 22:33:

I don't exactly remember, but I tried many Ati Rage card ( many "Rage", so difficult to make a list) with Quake 1. Results were […]
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Sleaka_J wrote on 2025-12-30, 04:48:

I ask because the previous generation Rage II had no OpenGL hardware support.

I don't exactly remember, but I tried many Ati Rage card ( many "Rage", so difficult to make a list) with Quake 1.
Results were poor, as usual with Ati and OpenGl. Unless you like square explosions and 20/30 fps 😀
But OGL worked.

Quake1
Its not hard to hit over 40fps without OC now, before it was harder to get it up there@RagePro.
Square explosions are gone with Rage XL/RageXC and you can get Q1 40-50fps if you just want.
CPU sweet spot is Coppermine CPU of any kind with SSE, better with Pentium3 and at 600MHz.
One magic option is to use multitexture and another is to disable bilinear textures at OpenGL 1.1
This is very old results and you dont need Pentium4, Faster Celeron or PentiumIII is good match.
These results are from year 2024 and i can beat those numbers if i want and get bit more scores.

Mouldotron wrote on 2025-12-30, 23:28:

Thank you for your reply! […]
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marxveix wrote on 2025-12-30, 09:14:

Use my ATi drivers and my OpenGL package, but better to download the Full package bundle for Rage. You need only driver to use O […]
Show full quote

Use my ATi drivers and my OpenGL package, but better to download the Full package bundle for Rage.
You need only driver to use OpenGL, OpenGL package is if any of your OpenGL game does not run well.
You get DDraw/3DCIF/Direct3D/OpenGL/DVD hardware acceleration@ATi, not only Direct3D/OpenGL.

Glide2CIF (3DFX and Glide wrapper with ATi3DCIF) Glide/CIF wrapper
XGL200/dgVoodoo (3DFX and Glide wrapper@DX) Re: ATi RagePro drivers and software

Drivers (540/2611 has some newer driver files)
https://hingetee.ee/library/ATiRage2611x3Dx2.7z
Bundle (has OpenGL-s and many other things)
https://hingetee.ee/library/ATi3DRageProSoftwarebundle.7z

My latest 5.40x2611x3D.7z ATi driver download link here:
download/file.php?id=229058

And if you want to try some new Games with your ATiRage3
Here some games that should have good Rage Pro support!
ATi RagePro supported games

Thank you for your reply!

So, I downloaded the bundle and unpacked it. I ran the driver installation in the folder "5.40x2611x3D" and it all installs. The driver is certainly operating in Windows and D3D.

absolutely nothing from OpenGL though. Quake II fails and says hardware acceleration not found, and if I run the demo in your package called "D3D-OGL Bencmark" then that works fine for D3D and bombs out immediately on trying it in OpenGL mode.

Do I need to install OpenGL separately somehow?

I really appreciate your advice. This isn't really my area of expertise.

Switch to high color 16bit at your desktop colors and you are good to go at OpenGL if you have Rage Pro.
Dont use 16 colors, 256 colors, true color 24bit, true color 32bit, use high color 16bit and then it works. 😀

Added some OpenGL settings here, in the bundle it had one OpenGL extra option as i member.
Benc or Bencmark use only for Bencmark (they can get your mouse or keyboard work strange).
Other options are more safe to use at Gaming (Fast is Multitexture/Max has bilinaer disabled).

These download has them, but not the bundle.
Drivers (540/2611 has some newer driver files)
https://hingetee.ee/library/ATiRage2611x3Dx2.7z

This is extracted from ATiRage2611x3Dx2.7z has OpenGL
My latest 5.40x2611x3D.7z ATi driver download link here:
download/file.php?id=229058

If you used this bencmark, uncheck one OpenGL option for fullscreen bencmark and you are good to go if high color 16bit did the trick.
Re: ATi RagePro OpenGL files

marxveix wrote on 2025-12-31, 05:33:

Use High Color 16bit at you desktop color and you are good to go with Rage Pro and OpenGL

Just quickly tried that as I head out to work.

And wow! You're right! My desktop was set to 32 bit and changing it to 16 bit suddenly allows OpenGL to work. I never knew you had to do that! I suppose it makes sense when you're rendering in a window but I have my Quake2 set to full screen and a lower resolution so I assumed it would set its own colour depth as it needed.

Frame rates are playable up to about 800x600. I'll have a play with the settings in your driver package after work to see if I can entice a bit more out of it.

Thanks so much 😀

Alaways use high colors 16bit colors for your desktop, it works well for all Rage Pro supported API-is,
at Desktop and DirectD3D you can experiment more colors, but sure not good for OpenGL and 3DCIF.

Use added OpenGL.zip and its settings or download only driver, there is OpenGL folder with those files,
i am using Fast and Max settings mostly and they work for me. PentiumII 400Mhz is good for Rage Pro.

At some point i update ATi3DRageProSoftwarebundle.7z package and add more useful items to it.

Mouldotron wrote on 2025-12-31, 08:39:

I'll have a play with the settings in your driver package after work to see if I can entice a bit more out of it.

Thanks so much 😀

Install this ATi RagePro driver if you want to use some 3Dfx Glide game with it.

ARx2611x3Dfx.7z:
Re: ATi RagePro drivers and software
download/file.php?id=233872

Install this driver with Rage Pro Tweaker 565 and Rage23Dev.exe dithering effect reduced checkbox enabled.

Glide2CIF - 3Dfx stuff that works
Croc 1.0
Die by the Sword
GLQuake MiniGL 3Dfx OpenGL32.dll
Ignition
Manx TT Super bike
Monaco Grand Prix: Racing Simulation 2 (1)
Monster Truck Madness 2
Motorhead
Pod Gold
X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse (GLQuake)
Pandemonium 2
Probable Worlds screensaver