Installing Voodoo 2 - Help

[raphaelmsx]

Hi! I just bought a Voodoo 2 for my PC, it came with the FastVoodoo2 4.0 XP Gold Edition driver. I´ve installed this and the included demos worked fine, but dxdiag (running directx 9.0) reported no 3d device, half-life doesn´t work in OpenGL mode and on direct3d mode it only displays the first frame, then stop. Also tried Rainbow Six but with no luck, only worked with software display.

I know these are not native glide games, I am downloading unreal right now, but in the driver readme it´s says that works also with OpenGL and Direct3D.

What I am missing here? Please help.

My PC is: ASUS TUV4X, P-III 800MHz, 256MB ram and 9440 PCI video board.

Thanks!

[Nightbird]

Ehm, FastVoodoo2 4.0 XP Gold Edition driver will only work with OpenGl and Glide.

[raphaelmsx]

Hmm, ok, but why Half Life doesn´t work on OpenGL?

Can I add other driver for directx and use in conjunction with this, or is there an
all-in-one (glide, opengl, d3d) driver?

[Max_R]

Try this http://www.3dfxzone.it/monitor/am/go.asp?url=105

[raphaelmsx]

Thanks, I´m at work now, I´ll try when I come home.

I installed Unreal Tournament and worked very fine in glide mode, all details on high and very fast fps! But for my tastes, the display is a bit soft, I think the anti-alias is very heavy. Can I tweek this (and other) settings for the voodoo 2?

Thanks again!

[raphaelmsx]

I´ve just installed the voodoomage2 you mentioned, but now Unreal doesn´t run in glide, it returns with this error: "_GlideInitEnvironment: glide2x.dll expected Voodoo, none detected".

Also, half-life doesn´t work on OpenGL (same error mentioned), and with D3D it runs below 1 fps and with "snow" on the screen.

Help!

[Mikulaish]

For opengl you need to use MesaFX or WickedGL->better for a V2 (can be found on this site). They both have an opengl32.dll that needs to be placed in the game folder. I would not recommand Voodoomage if you are not too experienced. For me Fastvoodoo 3.5 was the best solution. Do not worry about antialiasing, because there is no antialiasing with V2's.

[ps47]

check here for recommended drivers.once you install fastvoodoo2 correctly & patch it up with the correct glides,99% of games will run ok.

hint: dont use voodoomage unless you want to experiment (or reinstall windows).

[raphaelmsx]

Hi!

First, thanks for every answer, but I'm still with some problems.

I've installed WickedGL, but when I run Half-Life it displays this message:
Glide Fatal Error grTexDownloadMipMap: mipmap cannot span 2 Mbyte boundary

So, I installed the MesaFX, the game runs nice, but when I hit the ESC key, the game acts like it has been pressed the ESC key, but it freezes on the game display, so if I hit ESC again, it returns to the game action... The options menu doesn't show up, I can't quit the game, alt+enter and alt+tab does not work at all...

What's wrong and how do I fix these two things? I want to have both OpenGL drives running ok.

[ps47]

you are using a glide2x to glide3x wrapper.extract this package to your windows/system32 folder and use wickedgl,the game will run fine.mesafx is not very half life friendly,if memory serves..

[raphaelmsx]

Thanks!!! I just did what you said and half life is working fine now in minigl mode!  
I´ll try other opengl games later.
Thanks again