Voodoo 3 and Win 2k ??

[foamy]

My super GForce card smoked yesterday (Literally red-hot and smoking !!) so I am forced to go back to my old PCI Voodoo 3 card until PNY replaces my Ge Force (Which I hope they will if I can ever reach them).

Now I get awfull display (Slow and poor quality) and bad sound, I tried a search on this forum but could not find a suitable answer.

The Voodoo used to work fine on Win 98, but I am now on Win 2K, anyone know if I have to do anything special because of this ??

[Schrullenhaft]

My jumble of beta notes seems to indicate that the 1.03.00's worked fine for Win2K, but I can definitely be mistaken about this. My testing involved a Voodoo3 3000 AGP card, though I wouldn't imagine that the results for the PCI version should be too different from it.

In fact one advantage of running the Voodoo 3 under Win2K was that you could actually run at or over 1024x768 without the 'white out' under Win2K (where some textures would be white/blank squares instead of the intended texture). You couldn't do this in Win9x.

There are a variety of 3rd party drivers (many of which I haven't tested lately). You can get them from Voodoo Files. The original 1.03.00's are at: '3dfx' in left hand menu > '3dfx Drivers (original)' > 3rd page has the 1.03.00 WHQL drivers. Newer, 3rd party drivers (which rarely involve new code) are at: '3dfx' in left hand column > '3dfx Drivers (3rd Party) > first page has some 1.09 Beta 10's. Some of the best 3rd Party drivers came from 'x3dfx', but their website is now password protected and I'm not sure what they've done lately.

As for your sound, I'm not quite sure what is going on there. It's possible that with your video card being PCI now, it's 'hogging the bus' and causing problems with the audio data on the PCI bus. I don't know if any of the newer video drivers will help here or not.

[ March 02, 2003, 06:01 PM: Message edited by: Schrullenhaft ]