First post, by FeedingDragon
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When I was first building what I call my Voodoo system, I was designing it to multiboot into DOS/Windows 3.1 & Windows 98. It currently has 2 Voodoo 2 cards in SLI and a Voodoo 1 card, along with a Riva TNT2 graphics card. Have yet to find a need for Windows 3.1 drivers for Voodoo graphics (1 or 2,) but the main graphics card (currently TNT2,) needs the drivers to get full color support. I thought I was all set, except that I had the M64, or cheap, version of the TNT2 and have been planning to replace it eventually.
I recently acquired a game I had been looking for that runs on Windows 98. It requires "Hardware T&L" so will not work with my current setup. The TNT2 is one generation early. So, I'm currently looking for an AGP graphics card that supports Hardware T&L and has Windows 3.1 drivers that support full color (preferably both 16bit & 24bit modes.) So far, I've found the earliest cards that support HW T&L, though I'm fairly sure the list is not complete. The cards I've found are:
GeForce 256
Radeon DDR
Does anyone know if there are Windows 3.1 drivers that will work with these cards with full color support? Or of any AGP card with HW T&L that has Windows 3.1 drivers? The only other option I can come up with is to give up on dual booting, and build a separate DOS/Windows 3.1 system splitting my Voodoo 1 & Voodoo 2 SLI up. Would require sourcing quite a bit of extra equipment, and not sure I could ever afford it 🙁
p.s. I call it my Voodoo system because originally, it had a Voodoo 3 AGP as primary display. But after the card was physically damaged during a move, I decided to get a non-Voodoo card so I wouldn't be limited to 16bit graphics.
Feeding Dragon
