Will an old Voodoo 2 work alongside a Geforce3?? Read In Please.

[Rooster286]

I'm looking to hook my old Obsidian X24 (24mb voodoo2PCI) up in my computer for some older Glide games that run like garbage on my GF3, I was wondering if the card would work alongside my GF3 though?? Hopefully someone has some practical experience with this.

 

[Rickr]

Should work no problem. Give it a try, let us know how it works.

 

[limsandy]

Yes, it should, but then you can probably switch the game from glide to direct3d or opengl.
There has to be alternatives...... and Geforce3 works much better than Voodoo2
Good luck.

 

[Cygni]

Should work fine with the only real problem being in new games that automaticly pick the Voodoo to play, say, a OpenGL game when you clearly want to run it with the GeForce3.... you might be better off running a Glide wrapper (a prog that lets non-glide videocards run glide games)

 

[jeffrey]

Rooster286, the Obsidian X24 is a SLI on a single card. Windows 2k did not work with SLI video cards and since you are using an XP/ME dual boot, you might not be able to play games in XP because its based off of Win 2k. Hope this helped.

 

[Tominator]

Voodoo2/W2K Drivers

 

[InsaneTBONE]

Its funny that this topic should come up I have the same Obsidian but a Geforce 2 GTS and I can get the game to select the Obsidian but I cant get an image to the screen the game will use the card and I can here the game gui's underneath being used as I move the mouse but the screen is just plain white. I had the same idea use the card for older games

I was using Windows 98SE and the last drivers from the 3dfx site because the official obsidian drivers would not work.

 

[gogeeta13]

I really dont know why you would bother. The last time a glide game was faster on a voodoo was when the voodoo5 was pitted against a gf2 gts. My geforce3 is the fastest UT card out, faster than the 8500 as well. Period.

 

[Rooster286]

Thanks for the responses, There are some games out there that have very strange artifacts and glitched when run in OpenGL. I've thought of a wrapper, but I've heard some negative things about it. I might just put together another PC and throw my extra Voodoo3 3000 in there...but I was hoping I could cheap out and just put the Obsidian in I shouldn't need anything more than a p3 500 or so for the extra PC, I was just hoping someone had tried it. I've used the Obsidian on ME before and it worked fine, and I don't mind booting up into ME to run the older games. If anyoen has any other input, please let me know thanks!

 

[trikster2]

What glide games do you still play rooster286????

Just ordere a Geforce Ti 200 and I'm getting ready to retire my voodoo2.

I'm sure as soon as I do I'll get the urge to play an old game and make a big loud DOH sound.

 

[Rooster286]

Blood is one

Blood 2 seems to have alot of glitches on my GF3 also

Daggerfall is another that runs funky on my GF3, those are a few that I can think of...if I find anymore, I'll post them