Damn, I just switched back to 3Dfx today.......

[BlvdKing]

....from a Geforce MX (Prophet 2). I got tired of the buggy NVidia drivers and the overall system instability with the MX/Athlon combo, so I got a Voodoo 4 5500. Now NVidia owns 3Dfx 🙁

I have a question for V5 guru's out there: How do I get the card to come up as a Voodoo 5 5500 instead of a Voodoo Series under Win2K? I downloaded the newest non-beta drivers from 3Dfx. Thanks all!

 

[Tominator]

Mine has always said 'Voodoo Series.' I never use BETA drivers btw.

 

[kylebisme]

ya voodoo series is what it shold say. btw i just made a similar upgrade, i had the propet 256 and now have a v5. i read the fine print of the artical and relised that the actual acusition will take more than a year and with the long line of voodoo cards im sure drivers will keep coming for a while. btw, great card eh?

 

[BlvdKing]

So far I am very impressed. It is a very feature rich card. It also looks a hell of alot better than my MX in Quake 3. I am looking forward to playing UT in glide again. It played awful on the MX (texture breaks and such). I now this next statement will piss some people off, but IMHO, NVidia doesn't put out as good quality hardware as 3Dfx. BTW, the MX is going into SS7 P200MMX with Linux Mandrake 7.2 installed.

 

[BlvdKing]

BTW, I thought that there was a performance loss if the drivers stated 'Voodoo Series'. I guess I read into it wrong since I didn't own one when this was discovered. Thanks all.

 

[BFG10K]

In all honesty I think I'll buy a V5 5500 and stay with 3dfx as long as is possible. My V3 runs all of my games superbly and the V5 5500 will last quite a while longer, even assuming there are no future driver updates. Plus Carmack himself hinted that a V5 5500 should have enough fillrate to handle Doom 3.