Article Got a Voodoo Card? New drivers allow you to play games in widescreen! :D

[AnitaPeterson]

If you have a retro machine with a Voodoo card, you can now download drivers that will enable widescreen resolutions up to 1920x800.
Great news for nostalgia gamers!

See here: https://hothardware.com/news/new-3dfx-v5-driver-widescreen-support

 

[Ajay]

Hmm, that would be a gas! Tribes and UT from 1999 for me! Of course, I ditched that hardware a long time ago.

 

[TheELF]

Why would you want to go to all of that trouble to make a dedicated retro system and then play the games as if you where using dosbox/gog/steam?
Even if you use a widescreen LCD monitor, personally I would play the old games in pillarbox otherwise what's the point, I can play anything old I want on my windows 11 system with widescreen patches and all the comforts of a modern system.

Also most games will have issues with widescreen because the UI wasn't designed for it even if the main game would play well enough.

 

[CP5670]

dgVoodoo has allowed this for a long time. You can play almost all Glide games on a modern PC with it..