Can you run HL2 and Source games on a Voodoo5?

[ScottyMcNoob]

Do any of the Source Engine games work with a Voodoo5 5500 card? Has anyone tried them?

I have a Voodoo5 5500 AGP and want to know if it's worth installing Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike Source, etc on my PC.

[Raff3DC]

Yop, Half-Life 2, Episode 1 and CS Source work with a Voodoo4/5 and newer SFFT drivers. As far as I've read, a Voodoo3 is able to do so, too.

Greetings from Germany,
Raff

[ScottyMcNoob]

Fairly new to all these XP drivers. There seem be so many, I'm lost in choice.

Would Amigamerlin 3.1 drivers work?
(I haven't actually got the voodoo5 in a PC yet, I'm giving it better cooling before I do)

Also, what kind of settings? I'm assuming quite low?

[benna]

with low details and 800x600 my v5 performs about 60fps in cs source internal bench
i suggest you to use SFFT drivers

[skinnie]

benna how much fps do you have playing against bots..and with what details?

[benna]

I never tryed and i have no more CSS installed
But probably very low fps because voodoo cards needs lots of CPU to run well

[Raff3DC]

I'll show you the worst case: http://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=3283636&postcount=53

The result was from a very hard CPU timedemo with many bots. Most levels run better, especially when lowering the bot number.

Greetings from Germany,
Raff

[feinripp]

I little test I made.

http://www.voodooalert.de/wbb2/thread.php?threadid=13046

Half Life 2 is running very well, but Counter-Strike Source has some performance problems.
The problems are not because of Bots because the CPU I used for the test is very speedy.
You can see some graphic-bugs.
When you use a SFFt-alpha up to version #41 those bugs will be away and the textures will be filtered.
cu
feinripp