help with VOODOO 5 5500 and xp

[omegavolpe]

hey guys, i have a bit of a problem with my voodoo 5 5500. everytime i run anything that uses Direct 3d or glide the gamma settings of my card drop seriously low whenever i return to the desktop. for example just say i run a 3d screensaver (any screensaver by 3Planesoft.com will cause it), the graphics are so dark i don't see much on the screen. then when i exit the screensaver, the desktop is still really dark. i have to go to the 3dfx tools gamma correction to fix it. in fact i have to set the gamma to 2.20 to increase the brightness of the screen. i only have this problem with windows xp. the card runs great in any other version of windows.

this is my schematics for my machine

P4 2.4 Ghz
Soyo P4-s Dragon Ultra MB
512 MB DDR Ram
Amigamerlin Display driver Version 3.0
3DFX Voodoo 5 5500 AGP with bios updated to v1.18
Windows XP Pro Edition
DirectX 9.0b


I've reinstalled the driver at least a dozen times and reinstalled directX twice since then. if anyone could help me out it would really be appreciated.

thank you,

Omegavolpe

p.s. on a side note it doesn't seem that my motherboard supports agp 3.3v that the voodoo5 uses (even though on the spec sheet it says it does support 1.5v and 3.3v but i can only access 1.5v through bios), could this explain the adverse relationship between xp and the video card?

[Glide]

Your motherboard supports Voodoo5 card. Problem looks as bad software configuration. Then you could begin to again install all external device drivers, starting from chip-set driver until audio driver and  passing through video driver.

Please update Windows XP with latest Service Pack before running this task.

Let me know.