Boy, someone seems to be on a 1-man quest to keep Marvin alive, heh 😁

('accidentally' looked at original poster/'Author' ... no prize for guessing the most frequent 🤣 )

Anyhoo... <thinks-he's-beeing-helpful>

1): probably this:
http://www.3dfxzone.it/dir/3dfx/voodoo5/faq/v … bleshooting/#02

2): http://www.3dfxzone.it/dir/3dfx/voodoo5/faq/v … bleshooting/#01

Thanks a lot - most helpful! 😀

That is old news 😀

If you install SFFT driver version between 1.0 and 1.5 dxdiag (and all other programs) will detect full 64mb RAM. That way you will also get hardware acceleration on Adobe Flash so you can watch youtube full screen (you get only software mode on 32mb) 😀

Along with SFFT driver get vcontrol and VSA100 OC from koolsmoky; best tools to get V5 up and running.

You can find sfft driver here:
http://www.3dfxzone.it/dir/news/3dfx/sfft_1.5_voodoo3_4_5/

Have fun!

Thanks a lot! - I'll check all that out! 😀

Hmm, live and learn etc... 😊

Didn't know that, but granted, I just googled that page earlier, so... heh

Anyways, there are probably no such driver for win98 then?
The SFFT descriptions indicate win2k/XP/vista only...

(or maybe it works just fine there, w98, even with Amigamerlin 2.90 or original driver even ?)

<Ashamed of not having had the time to properly install and test his own 5500 Voodoo yet>

You know - I didnt really know that myself, until I tried SFFT driver myself. I was always using the trusty old 3dhq beta driver 1.09 which gives absolutely the best possible picture quality... But alas, its much, much slower then SFFT. I still use 3dhq driver for Win98 though... Dont know if amigamerlin is showing 64mb or 32.

And go ahead and try the kings card! Voodoo 5 (especially 6000) is absolutely the best video card ever made. Or it might be just the only one I'm emotionally attached to 😜

elfuego wrote:

I was always using the trusty old 3dhq beta driver 1.09 which gives absolutely the best possible picture quality...

This is something that interests me - why does this happen: I put a graphics card (say a PCI S3 trio64v+) in to an old mobo (say a socket 3 or 7), and the image quality looks "ok". I swap out this mobo, for another one (say a good quality slot 1), and the quality of the image looks better than "ok". (In other words, there seems to be a discernable difference.) This is for plain DOS. No drivers involved. Has this got something to do with PCI performance?

It's interesting you mention that the 3dhq driver gives the best picture quality. I'm definitely going to check that out, because I've always been unimpressed with my voodoo 5 cards. Compared to the voodoo 3 cards, I think the image quality is rather poor. Generally speaking, it doesn't look sharp. Kind of fuzzy/blurry looking. Sometimes pixels "wobble" a bit on screen.

^^ when you do try it out, use the "best quality" setting. If you are playing something newer and on higher resolutions, then use best quality setting again, but do set the FSAA on "fastest" 😀