voodoo 5500 sucks in xp!

[LongCoolMother]

dude, my voodoo 5500 PCI only gets about 2000 3dmarks..ugh...i borrowed my friend's voodoo 3 AGP, and even that got higher, almost 3000!! My athlon 1.4 GHz shouldnt be limiting it, i got 256MB DDR266 too! This vid card is makin me mad, it distorts my sound too! the voodoo 3 i borrowed is so much better...but i want to use a voodoo 5... *sob sob*

 

[sandorski]

Hmm, it's odd that the Voodoo3 is getting better 3dmarks than the Voodoo5, but that might be a difference in the WinXP drivers. Likely though, you have FSAA on for the Voodoo5.

For WinXP, I found that the x3dfx drivers and the GlideXP drivers give the best compatibility.

 

[BFG10K]

Don't worry about 3DMark because it means absolutely nothing in the real world. Try some games instead.

However the Voodoo5 does not have fully-featured drivers under Windows XP so your only choices are to get another card or to go back to another OS.

 

[jiffylube1024]

What do you expect from a card with no more support or official XP support? That's the unfortunate problem of having a card from a defunct video card manufacturer. That said my V3 AGP also was decent in XP, but I upgraded it to a Radeon DDR. You should look into a GeForce GTS-V or a newer card for equivalent or higher performance than ur V5 (except no glide

 

[spanky]

voodoo 5500 sucks in xp!


you don't say? i'll trade u my gf2 mx for it... :Q

 

[FuManStan]

Well on 3dmark2001 i only get a little above 3000 on a Geforce 2 GTS and my Pentium 3 at 980mhz. A voodoo 3 getting 3000 seems a little weird to me...

 

[jiffylube1024]

<< Well on 3dmark2001 i only get a little above 3000 on a Geforce 2 GTS and my Pentium 3 at 980mhz. A voodoo 3 getting 3000 seems a little weird to me >>



Doesn't seem that weird for 2 reasons: 1.) He's using a 1.4 GHz system. 2.) Voodoo 3 CAN'T do 32-bit, meaning it's running 3dmark2k1 in only 16-bit colour (making the 3000 score much more plausible).

The beauty of the V5 5500 is that it still does the beautiful 16-bit rendering (even more so) so you can get away with using 16-bit color in lots of games (with glide) and get nice speeds and pretty much 32-bit colour detail.

 

[BD231]

You need to look for some better drivers man, game performance should be great.

 

[giocopiano]

The 2000 marks on 3D Mark 2001 sounds familiar. The 3000 on a V3 sounds like a 3DMark 2000 score instead.
There is nothing inherent in the V5 which condemns you to sound problems. Somehow I knew you had a Creative soundcard when I read that. You do know that XP is not the best partner for a 3dfx card don't you....