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Need advice on Voodoo cards

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Wolfchild

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I'm finally putting a 'classics' machine together to play some 1996-1999 era games that I can no longer play on my 2000 and XP boxes. Now eventually I'm probably going to pick up both a Voodoo 1 and two Voodoo 2s, I see them once in a while in the AT For Sale forums for $5-15. I don't even mind switching between them if say an old game's Glide port doesn't like the Voodoo 2 cards.

What I'm wondering though, with say a V5 5500...how well do those run OLD games like the 3dfx versions of Blood and Shadow Warrior, Tomb Raider? In general would a Voodoo 5 be compatible with most of those or would I just be better off sticking with Voodoo 1s and Voodoo 2s for this old stuff?
 
If I remember right, the voodoo 5 could still play all 3dfx/glide versions of those games without a problem.
If i'm wrong.. some one will correct me
 
A good card for both DOS and W9x-era OpenGL/Direct3D is a Voodoo3 2000 - 3500.

My v3 2000 worked great for DOS (Blood1, Duke3D, etc.) and games like Blood2 that won't run on either gf2/3 or DirectX 8 (not sure which is the problem).

Unfortunately, I didn't get around to trying the Blood1-3dfx on it before upgrading.

I have the parts set aside for making a retro box myself, but have been too busy.

I wonder if one of those old "choose your 3D card" programs would let you use both a voodoo1 and a v3? The v1 for really old stuff and the v3 for the games you expected to use the v2-SLI for?

Post what you find out, I'm interested in doing this too.
 
Yeah that would be cool, something to switch between cards especially for glide games. I suppose I'll just have to see what all works. And run across some cheap cards. The only reason I'm thinking of all of this at all is I owned all those early 3dfx cards and I remember each with each new one there were one or two games that wouldn't work anymore, at least until they were patched. Like Unreal wouldn't work anymore in Glide once I replaced my V2 SLI with a V3...although there has probably long since been an updated Unreal glide port.

You know I'm actually playing Blood 2 just fine on my 9700 Pro? I am just not able to go over 1024x768 res, it crashes if you set it higher.
 
Man, I LOVED playing Duke Nukem 3D. I remember playing against my friends through a modem connection. Hella fun.
 
You know I'm actually playing Blood 2 just fine on my 9700 Pro? I am just not able to go over 1024x768 res, it crashes if you set it higher.
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Hmm, I assume you have dx8 or 9, so I wonder if it's an nvidia driver issue? I was trying it on a fresh install of Win98SE + Directx8 and a geforce2 gts.

Blood 2 wasn't as good as Blood 1 ("it burns!") but it did have its moments. The B2 expansion had fun parts too, though ammo was waay too scarce in a couple of the "episodes."
 
Yeah can't remember when I last played but but definitely had DX9 or DX8 at the time.

Man anyone looking for a change of pace should go back and play some of the Build games 🙂
Blood, Shadow Warrior, Redneck Rampage, Duke, all hilarious and pretty fun gameplay. They seem
a little tougher than some of the new shooters too. But maybe that's just me getting used to them
again. I've been playing some on the wife's computer as it still has Win98SE but she's getting tired
of me hogging it hence this 'classics' machine.
 
You know though I don't know what other people's success rates are but I've had about zero getting games like
Duke and Blood to work with sound on either my XP or 2000 boxes. And I've tried VDMSound too. I've gotten
Tomb Raider 1 running okay using VDMSound and Glidos on the 2000 computer.
 
Also you can stick a real Soundblaster Pro, 16, or AWE64 into a retro box, or possibly an Aureal card since thier DOS SB emulation was much cleaner than on my SB Live card.
 
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