3dfx voodoo1 cards = graphical mess onscreen.

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

Voodoo2 cards are completely backwards-compatible with Voodoo, FYI.
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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.
 
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?
Click to expand...

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

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