There probably is a common fault, that causes 2D and 3D parts to glitch: a cut trace, rotten via, missing smd, shorting pins, shunting cap or too low VCC to memory/graphics processors, etc, etc.

If it is the version with alliance chipset: there is a problem with some drivers clocking the 2d chip a tad too high. You can set the clockspeed a little lower by searching for it in the windows registry. 5mhz lower should be enough.

After that check every test/game again. Still problems? Try cleaning the pci connector and make sure none of the legs on any 3dfx chips are shorting or on the memory chips.

If none of this helps I guess it is time to find another card.

I have too say: I have about 60 3dfx cards and had over a 100 and the cards that are mostly dead/damaged/corrupting when I get them are the Rush cards..... they seem to be fragile.
I prefer the voodoo1: faster, more compatible and much harder to kill.

meljor wrote:

I prefer the voodoo1: faster, more compatible and much harder to kill.

True that.... While I have never owned any rush, then all V1's that I have ever owned, have all worked without any issue at all. I have had 4 over the years, and are now on my 5'th. Roughly 30% of all V2's that I have owned, was dead or had serious issues and 50% of all V3's that I have ever owned, have had issues or died. V1's are build well as far as I can tell.

I have seen and fixed this before on a voodoo card. When you get no video it is usually that the solder ball welds attaching the GPU to the pcb have broken. Fix is a complete reball of GPU.

When you see strange lettering and horizontal lines on boot up screen it is usually that the ram solder joints have failed. Fix is to repair solder welds from ram chip legs to pcb pads. Pour no-clean flux on the ram chip legs and heat with a heat gun. Let the flux do the job of repairing the solder welds. It’s easy to do and can be repaired in minutes. If not you can remove ram chips with heat gun and then clean up the pcb pads with solder wick and then apply flux paste to the pcb pads and place the ram chip back on the pcb. Heat with heat gun to resoldering back to pcb.

See this video
https://youtu.be/ZypXa9BDXHw

these voodoo rush were kind of crazy ? did any of you had one of these?

Those glitches and crashes i had were on a SOYO 6BA intel 440bx chipset with a pentium3 550mhz. this is out of period since Rush was from 1997 and Soyo was from 1999.

So today i tried using a different motherboard a QDI P5I430tx socket7 motherboard that also has an intel chipset, the cpu was way out of period since it had a 100mhz pentium chip. In order to match the Voodoo Rush period i should find a pentium 200mmx cpu, but the pentium 100mhz was all i had at hand.

So i tested booting into DOS for some games, the card works perfectly, no glitches at all.

Then booted win98 ( i had it installed from another motherboard and booted and detected a shitload of new stuff because it was from a different motherboard) Installed the voodoo rush drivers and lauched the game TUROK...and it worked perfectly no glitched, runs smooth...feels like 20frames maybe a little bit more but very playable.

then launched 3dmark99... 640x480 resolution , 3dmark99 is out of period, things were slow, the first benchmark that is about racing gave like 4fps and never glitched nor crashed.

So looks like the Voodoo Rush card is fine, and that it is just not very compatible with faster hardware. What kind of benchmark programs were used in 1997 to test these cards?

Cga.8086 wrote:

What kind of benchmark programs were used in 1997 to test these cards?

i only know 3dfx Benchmark "Wizmark" V3.0 but I don't know if the outcome is very relevant. You can find it here:
http://falconfly.3dfx.pl/artwork.htm

does anyone got a voodoo rush?
does it glitch with a pentium3 cpu? are those cards supposed to be used on pentium mmx cpus?

It depends, I have a few cards that works perfectly with PII and PIII cpus, but not with faster CPUs (Athlon XP, for example). They will quickly overheat and freeze.
I'd say that for a Voodoo Rush you should use Pentium MMX or PII (266-300). Anything faster is pure luck, it might work perfectly, but it might not work or even destroy your card.
Try to provide good cooling, a fan placed at the side of the card have a huge impact in temperature.