3dfx voodoo1 cards = graphical mess onscreen.

Bought two 3dfx voodoo1 cards, one Diamond Monster 3D, the other Maxi
Gamer 3D. Can't get either to work. When either running a 3dfx test
utility or a 3dfx game, the screen goes really weird - all messy
graphics, weird colors, like a digital SPLAT onscreen! I usually have
to turn the PC off at this point.

The thing is, I think I've got the correct drivers loaded. The device
is listed correctly inside Windows 98 Device Manager. Also, if I go
to Control Panel and look at the display properties, the 3dfx tab is
there with information about both the hardware and drivers. Also,
with the Diamond card there was a utility called mojo which told you
info about the card, and when I ran this utility it reported back the
card's info - all seemed well.

Another thing - I have successfully tested three voodoo2 cards OK, so
it seems so strange I can't make any progress at all with these
voodoo1 cards.

Any ideas please?

Thanks, regards, Robert.

On or about Fri, 2 May 2008 15:30:18 -0700 (PDT) did rpgs rock dvds
<rpgsrockdvds@hotmail.co.uk> dribble thusly:

>Bought two 3dfx voodoo1 cards, one Diamond Monster 3D, the other Maxi
>Gamer 3D. Can't get either to work. When either running a 3dfx test
[snip]
>
>Any ideas please?

Perhaps because they're older than dirt they no longer work?

Voodoo2 cards are completely backwards-compatible with Voodoo, FYI.
--
- Mike

Ignore the Python in me to send e-mail.

On 3 May, 10:38, Mike Ruskai <BUTthann...@DONTearthlinkLIKE.netSPAM>
wrote:
> On or about Fri, 2 May 2008 15:30:18 -0700 (PDT) did rpgs rock dvds
> <rpgsrockd...@hotmail.co.uk> dribble thusly:
>
>
>
> >Bought two 3dfx voodoo1 cards, one Diamond Monster 3D, the other Maxi
> >Gamer 3D. *Can't get either to work. *When either running a 3dfx test
> [snip]
>
> >Any ideas please?
>
> Perhaps because they're older than dirt they no longer work?
>
> Voodoo2 cards are completely backwards-compatible with Voodoo, FYI.
> --
> *- Mike
>
> Ignore the Python in me to send e-mail.

Actually, I didn't realise they were completely backwards-compatible.
Perhaps I'm wasting my time with the voodoo1 cards then. So if I run
*any* game at all which works ok on voodoo1, it'll be just fine on
voodoo2 -- do I have to tweak any .ini/batch/whatever files and such,
or does it all just work "automatically"?

Thanks, regards, Robert.

On or about Sat, 3 May 2008 10:51:41 -0700 (PDT) did rpgs rock dvds
<rpgsrockdvds@hotmail.co.uk> dribble thusly:

>On 3 May, 10:38, Mike Ruskai <BUTthann...@DONTearthlinkLIKE.netSPAM>
>wrote:
>> On or about Fri, 2 May 2008 15:30:18 -0700 (PDT) did rpgs rock dvds
>> <rpgsrockd...@hotmail.co.uk> dribble thusly:
>>
>>
>> >Bought two 3dfx voodoo1 cards, one Diamond Monster 3D, the other Maxi
>> >Gamer 3D. *Can't get either to work. *When either running a 3dfx test
>> [snip]
>>
>> >Any ideas please?
>>
>> Perhaps because they're older than dirt they no longer work?
>>
>> Voodoo2 cards are completely backwards-compatible with Voodoo, FYI.
>
>Actually, I didn't realise they were completely backwards-compatible.
>Perhaps I'm wasting my time with the voodoo1 cards then. So if I run
>*any* game at all which works ok on voodoo1, it'll be just fine on
>voodoo2 -- do I have to tweak any .ini/batch/whatever files and such,
>or does it all just work "automatically"?

I believe it will work automatically. The only tweak I remember having to
make was adding an option to disable SLI after I added a second Voodoo2. I
think it was setting an environment variable.
--
- Mike

Ignore the Python in me to send e-mail.

On 3 May, 10:38, Mike Ruskai <BUTthann...@DONTearthlinkLIKE.netSPAM>
wrote:
> On or about Fri, 2 May 2008 15:30:18 -0700 (PDT) did rpgs rock dvds
> <rpgsrockd...@hotmail.co.uk> dribble thusly:
>
>
>
> >Bought two 3dfx voodoo1 cards, one Diamond Monster 3D, the other Maxi
> >Gamer 3D. *Can't get either to work. *When either running a 3dfx test
> [snip]
>
> >Any ideas please?
>
> Perhaps because they're older than dirt they no longer work?
>
> Voodoo2 cards are completely backwards-compatible with Voodoo, FYI.
> --
> *- Mike
>
> Ignore the Python in me to send e-mail.

I've just had a thought. The voodoo1 driver files I am using are for
direct x version 5. If I am running windows 98se, and this installs
direct x version 6 by default, (and then I installed my graphics
driver package which then installed direct x version 9), then the
voodoo1 card is going to have problems with this direct x version. i
think that's the problem.