Patch for 3dfx Voodoo4 and 3dfx Voodoo5 cards: it allows running Painkiller game on Windows XP based systems that have these 3dfx adapters.

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We want get a new target: making possible that people plays with Voodoo2 SLI done by mismatched cards on Windows 2000 and Windows XP environments. We remember that mismatched means that your Voodoo2 SLI does not use boards of same manufacturer: for example one arrives from Creative and one from Diamond.

A beta driver release is ready: grab it here and make a good testing on your system. Then report results about install process, compatibility and performance issues, other  in this topic. You must post all main system specs like cpu, motherboard, Voodoo2 manufacturers and Operative System.

By your feedback we want before put on a stable device driver and then attempt rising with perormances and aiming at these of FastVoodoo2 4.0 XP for identical cards.

Refer to this topic for reading and posting.

Tnx.

System

- 3dfx Voodoo5 6000
- Amigamerlin 3.0 SE beta 1
- DirectX 9b
- MS Windows XP
- Service Pack 1a

Video driver/game settings

- Antialiasing: off
- Risoluzione: 1280x1024
- Rendering: 32 bit
- Dettagli grafici: high
- Trilinear filtering: enabled



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First impression

The game is running with nice speed at 1280x1024 so we wait for good performances on V5 5500 cards (at least) at 800x600. This engine is more efficient than previous UT 2003 (also with not 3dfx cards). Programmers got both performance and high video quality on most systems and solved horizontal lines problem that UT 2003 had with multiple VSA-100 cards.

New press release received from XGI. Read it at this link: https://www.3dfxzone.it/dir/news/xgi/11_02_2004/.

Hi guys,

I'm very, very happy that this Community is useful to find friends and to 3dfx "talk".

But...all screenshots or images sizes MUST be <= 80kb, else screenshots/images MUST be linked only.

I, you and all other MUST think of low band users: pages with one or more 140kb (or above...) images are a block for their connection...

Thanks in advance.

Hi guys,

I'm very, very happy that this Community is useful to find friends and to 3dfx "talk".

But...all screenshots or images sizes MUST be <= 80kb, else  screenshots/images MUST be linked only.

I, you and all other MUST think of low band users: pages with one or more 140kb (or above...) images are a block for their connection...

Is now (and for the future) all clear (for all)?

I hope so!

Thanks in advance.

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This patch for 3dfx Voodoo2 cards adds Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit support and allows 1024x768 resolution on Voodoo2 SLI systems.


Download XP [50kb, Windows 2000/XP support, zip file]

Download 9x [47kb, Windows 98/ME support, zip file]

This patch optimizes the game Forsaken for 3dfx Voodoo2 cards.


Download [1kb, Windows 98/ME support, zip file]

This patch for 3dfx Voodoo2 cards adds Fifa 2002 support and allows 1024x768 resolution on Voodoo2 SLI systems.

Setup

Just do a double click on the file and merge data to OS regedit.
You can choose the screen resolution that matches an optimal ratio
between your hardware performance and video output quality.


Download [4kb, Windows 2000/XP support, zip file]

This patch for 3dfx Voodoo2 cards adds Fifa 2001 support and allows 1024x768 resolution on Voodoo2 SLI systems.

Setup

Just do a double click on the file and merge data to OS regedit.
You can choose the screen resolution that matches an optimal ratio
between your hardware performance and video output quality.


Download [4kb, Windows 2000/XP support, zip file]

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3D-Analyze is a tool for transform and lightning hardware emulation. So it is very useful for running TnL games on video cards that have not on board dedicated circuits for TnL calculations (like all Voodoo, Kyro, some Radeon and older). It uses power of central processing unit to do emulation.

Older and current packages, release notes and tutorials are available to download here.


Note: with 3D-Analyze v. 2.31 author has readded Windows 9X support.