Drivers for Windows 7 (or Vista even)

Started by ronrtaylor, 05 January 2010, 23:22:52

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ronrtaylor

I'm running a voodoo 5 on winXP and love it. However, I'm wanting to move up to Windows 7 but it tells me it cannot identify the card, and just runs as a generic (Aero and no telling what else is disabled). In searching for drivers, I have not found even any hint of them for my card that will work under Windows 7. I did however find a mention that possibly the Vista drivers may work, but I've not found them either.
Does anyone know if there are drivers out there for the Voodoo 5 that will work under Win7 ?? I really hate to have to dump my card when every thing else is working ok. Any advice will be appreciated.
 

ms-dos

#1
try this, it might help  https://www.3dfxzone.it/news/reader.php?objid=9202

the driver that will run in win7 vista in sfft 1.5
I would not run a 3dfx card in vista or win7, but that's gust me
 

ronrtaylor

Thanks for the link/advice. I'll try it.
 

jix-reggio

#3
Hi,

    I have make a test with the same PC (KR7A/T-bred@2000/V5500 agp) under win XP (Sfft 1.5 drivers) and Win7 (Sfft 1.5 drivers), and the win7 version is faster and more reliable, even in games (3dmark2001se bench / tomb raider / hitman). So I decided running on Win7 with Powerstrip o/c & FSAA settings.



A screen.
Thank you very much for your nice job, Sfft drivers are very fine.
It works also (in vista compatibilty mode) with V3000 Pci and V4500 agp4x
 

boolean

does it also work on windows 7 x64?
3dfx PC:

Core 2 Q9550 @ 3.5GHz
Radeon HD4850 OC'ed
VoodooMAC 5500 PCI66
Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro
4GB DDR2 @ 1068MHz
73GB SCSI320 15K OS DISK
8TB SATA300 DATA DISKS
Windows 7 Ultimate x64

ms-dos

it should but i don't run 7 or vista on any of my PC's
 

boolean

I don't think it does. Has someone actually tried running his Voodoo 5 5500 AGP/PCI on Windows 7 x64 yet?
3dfx PC:

Core 2 Q9550 @ 3.5GHz
Radeon HD4850 OC'ed
VoodooMAC 5500 PCI66
Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro
4GB DDR2 @ 1068MHz
73GB SCSI320 15K OS DISK
8TB SATA300 DATA DISKS
Windows 7 Ultimate x64

boolean

3dfx PC:

Core 2 Q9550 @ 3.5GHz
Radeon HD4850 OC'ed
VoodooMAC 5500 PCI66
Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro
4GB DDR2 @ 1068MHz
73GB SCSI320 15K OS DISK
8TB SATA300 DATA DISKS
Windows 7 Ultimate x64

ps47

the d3d portion of the driver should work,but glide/opengl is a no go,unless someone recompiles them for 64bit (if memory serves).

Kyrandia

QuoteOriginally posted by jix-reggio

Hi,

    I have make a test with the same PC (KR7A/T-bred@2000/V5500 agp) under win XP (Sfft 1.5 drivers) and Win7 (Sfft 1.5 drivers), and the win7 version is faster and more reliable, even in games (3dmark2001se bench / tomb raider / hitman). So I decided running on Win7 with Powerstrip o/c & FSAA settings.



A screen.
Thank you very much for your nice job, Sfft drivers are very fine.
It works also (in vista compatibilty mode) with V3000 Pci and V4500 agp4x

Hi, i'm using win 7 too, i'd like to ask you which software are you using to enable or disable FSAA

thank you so much
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