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Voodoo5 won't function under proper drivers

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APE992

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I've got a AGP Voodoo 5 5500 that refuses to function under any drivers aside from Microsofts generic sets.

*Windows 98 - it boots up and says it can't set any video modes aside from 16 color 640x480 due to hardware problems.
*Ubuntu - the edges of windows would "wiggle". It was like a side winder going up and around the edges of window. This is without any 3dfx support, just vanilla Ubuntu.
*Windows XP - works fine, wouldn't know that you were using the default video driver at all. Install the 3dfx driver or a 3rd party model and it would boot to a black screen. Rolling back the driver fixes it but of course its rolled back to the XP generic.

XP also reports that it's only got 1 VSA-100 chip and 32mb of ram. I'm not sure if its supposed to say 2 chips or not because my pci v5 isn't in any of my XP boxes right now. The bios at boot says it has a full 64mb and I have flashed it with the last bios available.

It was in an old Socket A Soyo and it did the same things as listed above as well as an Asus P2B with a 350mhz p2. Currently it's in an Asus P2L97-DS. I've tried just about everything and hope someones got some random idea that I haven't thought of.
 
Why bother? You've got a six or seven year old card there, terrifically outdated for anything other than DOS and W95, maybe, just possibly the original Win98, but 3Dfx went bankrupt before all the bugs were removed from their 32 Bit drivers.

For $25-30, no more, you can get a surplussed three or four year old something, like a Radeon 8500 or GF3 Ti-500, and not worry about drivers!


:thumbsdown:
 
Herecy! Us true 3dfx followers will never abondon our cards. Nothing beats a v5 in agp 1/2x to my knowledge. Besides, nothing beats a v5's glide for N64 emulation.
 
Originally posted by: APE992
Herecy! Us true 3dfx followers will never abondon our cards. Nothing beats a v5 in agp 1/2x to my knowledge. Besides, nothing beats a v5's glide for N64 emulation.
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Except cards with working video card drivers 😛
 
I kinda' wish I hadn't sold my Voodoo 5. But Intel's chipsets wouldn't allow it on the new motherboards. Now, I'd like to play Longbow 2 and some other great Glide-based games, and I really don't have good, compatible PC. 🙁

At least I kept a couple of Voodoo 3 cards.
 
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