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Gaming with 3dfx Voodoo cards => Video Game Screenshots => Topic started by: ps47 on 27 August 2004, 17:18:48

Title: voodoo2 is not dead yet!
Post by: ps47 on 27 August 2004, 17:18:48
thought the voodoo2 is useless today?think again!all you need is a nice new athlon xp 2500 CPU,and you are ready to roll[8D]

hitman2 silent assasin (fully playable,no FPS drops)
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freedom fighters (fully playable,almost no FPS drops)
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hitman contracts (playable,some minor glitches and FPS drops)
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medal of honor allied assault (fully playable,some FPS drops)
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unreal tournament 2003 (almost playable,has some texture problems,FPS drops frequently)
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the test machine:athlon xp 2500,geforcefx5700 64MB+A-trend voodoo2 12MB,256MB DDR RAM,winxp.
all games run with mesafx6.1.0.9 (do I even need to mention mesafx is the best thing ever?:D)
Title: voodoo2 is not dead yet!
Post by: r21vo on 27 August 2004, 18:29:38
great shots!!
Title: voodoo2 is not dead yet!
Post by: Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman on 04 December 2004, 13:06:14
Does it have something to do with the Athlon XP? What if we put Voodoo2 in Pentium IV?
Title: voodoo2 is not dead yet!
Post by: ps47 on 04 December 2004, 14:25:36
no.you just need fairly fast CPU to run these games at decent speed,thats all.anything faster that 1GHz will do fine.amd,intel,its your choice ;)
Title: voodoo2 is not dead yet!
Post by: secretfj on 05 December 2004, 16:10:59
I will suggest AthlonXP/64 series than Intel P4 for voodoo 2
someone had done some test to show this..
also i use P4 1.6GHz and V2 SLI to play CS-CZ, in 1024X768, there is still FPS drops..
Title: voodoo2 is not dead yet!
Post by: ps47 on 05 December 2004, 16:47:58
..after performing various tests,it seems like voodoo2/3 reaches its maximum performance limits with a CPU around 1000-1500MHz.from that point,it doesnt matter how fast the CPU is,the FPS will remain the same.(for example-MOHAA.there is no FPS change with an 1GHz and an 3GHz CPU.same goes for Wolf ET..)
Title: voodoo2 is not dead yet!
Post by: perer on 05 December 2004, 17:14:03
Well, when you overclock it to 100mhz, you are getting alle the benifts,  faster memory, and a increased fillrate. Unfortunately the V2's memory isn't a great overclocker.  BTW how do you get a V2 able to work with Freedom Fighters with 3dAnylyser?
Title: voodoo2 is not dead yet!
Post by: ps47 on 05 December 2004, 18:21:27
..freedom fighters use IOI's glacier engine,that means the hitman2 fix works with no problems.lemme quote it for ya (just loove quoting myself):
QuoteUse Notepad to edit freedom.ini,change the line DrawDll Renderd3d.dll  to  DrawDll Renderopengl.dll and add following line:  
ColorDepth 16  
Save changes and exit Notepad.Download the newest MesaFX,and put the opengl32.dll file and the correct glide3x.dll file to your Freedom Fighters folder.Create a *.txt file (run.txt for example) in the same folder,and put in following:
set MESA_FX_MAXLOD=10
Freedom.Exe
Save changes and exit notepad,rename the *.txt file to run.bat,and launch the game via run.bat
make sure you use mesafx6.1.0.9 or newer,older versions lack a very important fix ;)
Title: voodoo2 is not dead yet!
Post by: Manuelson on 05 December 2004, 23:17:26
vooodoo 2 power..congratulations for the shots, ps47 :-)