i tried Steam aka CS and Natural selection.  These are the games i want to play on steam.

in fact i've go so far as to install win98 with the win98 fastvoodoo voodoo2 drivers and opengl games *still* do not work, it keeps tuning me ,'will revert back to software mode'

well i tried what you suggested and opengl games still don't work, what i did was replace the existing opengl32.dll with another one from the latest mesafx set.

http://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1055

yea that still doesn't work.

i dunno man, no opengl or direct3d games work, only glide games work (and steam/halflife doesn't like glide), answers to this question come slow due to the obvious nature of these forums.  anyway i'm writing off my voodoo2 problem.  i mean i can't believe i'm the only person with this 'NO OPENGL' problem with supposed opengl drivers.

i have exactly the same problem with my V2 but unfortunately this forum doesn't generate that much traffic so the chances of your problem being fixed are VERY slim.  anyway, if u want to check it out look for the topic called -> "fv2 4.0 xp and the case of the missing opengl"

I've tried mesafx but no luck.  Here's a screenie so everyone knows whats going on:



So basically, it's windows xp, it's got a voodoo2 12mb, i forget the name, something with 'magic' in it. the fastvoodoo4.0 drivers for winxp don't enable OPENGL support as u can see, so far ONLY glide is working and that really restricts the # of games my PC can play.

any help here?

if u can get opengl working on your system using the fastvoodoo drivers PLEASE LET ME KNOW how you did it!!  

I'm trying desperately to get them to work in this post : http://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1055

....so basically to sum it up, glide apps work, but opengl apps don't and afaik the fastvoodoo drivers (and the original driver) are supposed to enable opengl support.  

Is there something wrong with my setup or something that i must perhaps install in addition to these drivers to get opengl games to work with the card?

Dual P2/400
ATI Rage 3D Pro 4MB
Voodoo2 12MB
Windows XP SP1

I've tried using the WickedGL drivers and the miniGL drivers and they dont work but the reason they don't work I think is because the Voodoo2 driver hasn't enabled opengl support in the first place.

Any help here pls?

i followed the directions for installing the fastvoodoo2 app and started by installing dx9, i rebooted, installed the fv2 ge xp app and rebooted.  when i go into the display properties i can see a 3dfx v2 1000 tab, i click on it and inside that tab there's a drop down menu to select glide and presumably opengl, but the drop down menu only shows glide and NOT opengl.  is there a problem there?  in addition to that i know that this fastvoodoo2 software doesn't use direct3d but why did it require the installation of directx9?

thanks