Nice!!!:)

Hello fellow 3dFx fans:),

Well, another year has passed and our Voodoo hardware is ageing, but still going strong of course!!!!

I'm just curious if anyone has "lost" their voodoo cards due to hardware failures and which sort.

This might help everyone preserve their cards better if there was something that could of been avoided.

For example, all my voodoo cards are all going strong...and I only blew up a Voodoo1 years ago because of my stupidity trying to overclock it

SNAP!!!



I think they are targeting us Aussies...

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Hello Chips

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At: http://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/

Dear lovely one,

please write me from my personal email at   (joy_omar2002@yahoo.com)

Permit me to inform you about my desire to seek for assistant from you and i got the believe that you are going to help me out successfully. but firstly about myself.
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but before  the death of my father in a private hospital here  in Abidjan , he called me secretly to his bed side and told me that he kept a sumof $10.5 million (Ten Million Five hundred thousand united states dollars) in a bank in Abidjan Cote D'ivoire. meanwhile that he used my name as the next of kin in deposit of the fund.He also explained to me that it was because of this money he was poisoned by his business partner accompnined with his junour brother and that i should seek for foreign partner in a country of my choice where i would transfer this money and use it for investment purpose, such as;real estate investment or stock market investment.
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Hi everyone,

It appears that there could be a Voodoo 6000 scam on ebay at the moment...

2 weeks ago an auction was held from 3 voodoo cards from a seller in Brazil at http://offer.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=8817968967

This auction seemed to have failed as the winner is no longer a registered user, and it appears the auction was relisted again at http://offer.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=8822261540

The problem is that I know the winner who has just paid US$355, but had another bidder contact him with the following information:

Quotei don't normally contact people like this, but i just found this a little bit too fishy to ignore. the reason i asked if you paid, is because both myself and a friend that bid lower than i did, received 2nd chance offers, both stating: The Winning bidder didnt have paid, so its your chance. my friend only bid up to 100$...and if you know anything about the voodoo5 6000, you know that it goes for way more than 100$, not to mention that both of the 2nd chance offers i speak of, are currently active, which means that he i saying he has 3 cards (1 for you, and 2 for the possibility of sale for me and my friend)...very unlikely. this is also the 3rd auction this guy has put up before, claiming that the previous sellers have not paid, except that the pictures for each card are different, and match previous ones up for sale by other sellers in the past that actually sold the cards for well over 2000$. if you already paid him, i would definitely ask for some proof as to it being shipped out, or the tracking # immediately. if you do contact him and ask about it, please don't mention myself or my friend, for good reasons. i find it very odd that anyone has more than 1 of these cards, as they are not common. i'm not trying to alarm you, but receiving a 2nd chance offer on this particular item, for only in the amount of 300$, seems rather odd to me, as these go for more than that easily. my friend mentioned that he may contact you as well. if he does, his id is **************. he may have other information that may interest you. i would be more than willing to pay 300$ to get the v5 6000 alone, but this just sounds a little bit too odd to me, and given the circumstances, too risky as well. i have also contacted other sellers to see if they have received 2nd chance offers as well, but no word back yet. there may be a possibility that he has more than 1, but that is very unlikely. feel free to contact me again, if you have any questions.

This person has a high feedback and is quite far down the list of winning bidders so I'm not considering the idea that he is trying to get a second chance offer.

I'm not sure it's a genuine sale.  Be warned.  Be careful, and if anyone has any information to add here that would be appreciated.

ahavasi:  15-20fps max but I haven't had a chance to run it with a faster CPU....what I'm impressed with is the visual quality.

PS47:  Yep - No more rainbow textures on doors etc

SFFT - Nice job![8]

Yes!  Finally SWAT4 going with the Voodoo 5500!  I used the SFFT alpha 36 distribution now it all works great!!

First shot is from the original SWAT4 and the second shot is from the Stetchkov Syndicate expansion just released[:p]

I only ran it on my PII-400 @ 800x600, but a faster CPU would fix this!

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Believe it or not, SWAT4 is based on the original Unreal Tournament engine.

So with this in mind, it may be possible to "unlock" the native glide renderer in the engine....if it is still there.

Being the busy person that I am, I had a quick go the other night, but hit several roadblocks.

First of all I replaced the section in swat4.ini which has:

[Engine.Engine]
UsePerforce=0
RenderDevice=D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice
AudioDevice=ALAudio.ALAudioSubsystem
;AudioDevice=XboxAudio.XboxAudioSubsystem
NetworkDevice=IpDrv.TcpNetDriver
DemoRecordingDevice=Engine.DemoRecDriver
Console=Engine.Console
Language=eng
GameEngine=SwatGame.SwatGameEngine
EditorEngine=Editor.EditorEngine
GUIController=SwatGui.SwatGuiController
DefaultGame=SwatGame.SwatGameInfo
DefaultServerGame=SwatGame.SwatGameInfo
ViewportManager=WinDrv.WindowsClient
Render=Render.Render
Input=Engine.Input
Canvas=Engine.Canvas
LevelInfoClass=class'Engine.LevelInfo'
RepoClassName=SwatGame.SwatRepo

with this one taken from my unreal tournament config:

[Engine.Engine]
GameRenderDevice=GlideDrv.GlideRenderDevice
AudioDevice=Galaxy.GalaxyAudioSubsystem
NetworkDevice=IpDrv.TcpNetDriver
DemoRecordingDevice=Engine.DemoRecDriver
Console=UTMenu.UTConsole
Language=int
GameEngine=Engine.GameEngine
EditorEngine=Editor.EditorEngine
WindowedRenderDevice=SoftDrv.SoftwareRenderDevice
RenderDevice=GlideDrv.GlideRenderDevice
DefaultGame=Botpack.DeathMatchPlus
DefaultServerGame=Botpack.DeathMatchPlus
ViewportManager=WinDrv.WindowsClient
Render=Render.Render
Input=Engine.Input
Canvas=Engine.Canvas
CdPath=D:
RunCount=145


heh heh....note the glide renderer change...and then copied this over from the unrealtournament.ini file...

[GlideDrv.GlideRenderDevice]
Translucency=True
VolumetricLighting=True
ShinySurfaces=True
Coronas=True
HighDetailActors=True
DetailBias=-1.500000
RefreshRate=60Hz
DetailTextures=True
FastUglyRefresh=False
ScreenSmoothing=True
Resolution=Default
DescFlags=1

Then, I hit an error because it was missing the glide driver, so I copied the GlideDrv.dll and the GlideDrv.int over but then the core.dll complained

So what I'm saying is if someone else can check it out and see if I'm missing something, you could get your name up in lights!!

I'll provide any Unreal Tournament files you need.

Chips

Hi Guys,

Have a look at the screenies I posted at http://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2150 but they are from the multiplayer version.

Actually I also noticed the single player gamma slider did not work and the game was dark, but the multiplayer version gamma works OK.

Yeah, tried that too.  It works in mprtest but still only software or D3D in game.

Might just be a WinXP thing because I remember glide works in Win98.

Thanks for the speedy responses.

OK, lets stick with the simple case - the Voodoo2's in SLI.

I'm using glide2x.dll version 2.56.0.3496 (the one bundled with Fastvoodoo XP 4.0 Gold).

Extract from readme.doc says:

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The following video cards require at least these driver versions:

3dfx Voodoo 2   glide2x.dll 2.53 or higher
3dfx Banshee   glide2x.dll 2.53 or higher
3dfx Voodoo   glide2x.dll 2.46 or higher

Do you have any suggestions of a better glide2x.dll to try?  I've tried the Nvidia glide2x.dll files from http://www.shifter.sk/helppage/default_fix.htm but when I run "mprtest" the voodoo modes shown above are no even there!

Hi Everyone,

I used to play Falcon 4.0 years ago under Win98 with Voodoo2 SLI no problems until my CD got scratched and that was it until I noticed it was abandonware recently, so I D/L it[:p]  

Now I installed it on 2 of my machines running Windows XP, one with 2 x Voodoo2's in SLI, and the other with a Voodoo5 5500 SLI

But when I run the standalone tool "mprtest" it shows 3 drivers (software, Direct3D, and Glide), but in game it only offers Software and Direct3D.  

BTW I have tried placing the glide2x.dll files in the c:\windows\system, c:\windows, and the F4 folder (because some older software doesn't see them in c:\windows\system32) but it still doesn't offer glide in game.

Help!

Also, have you tried using an OpenGL driver like Mesa 6.1?

Check your MAC card's BIOS version - this topic seems to indicate that there are a few different versions around!

I personally use the one that rol0 sent me which is version 1.18 (I think thats the same one Trigger is using too).

p.s.  My MAC PCI card works fine with openGL using the WinXP AmigaMerlin v3.1 R11 driver.

QuoteOriginally posted by NitroX infinity

I think the problem here is the CPU which only runs at 1GHz. Someone should compare the two with a more powerfull CPU (2400+/2.6GHz)

The Voodoo 5 isn't maxed out here because the CPU can't supply enough data to it.

Umm, so how do you explain my fill rate with the K6-III+ 550Mhz??

16bit??

I used 32Bit - looks much nicer:D  You should try it on your system seeing as it is much faster than mine[8D]