QuoteOriginally posted by ps47

(...)only had problems with diablo2 rebooting my pc from time to time (the event viewer wrote this:
"The Voodoo2 Board Remapper service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the file specified."),the problem seemed to disappear when I loaded the original 3dfx memory mapper.(...)

Hello ps47, I'm have exactly this same error:
"The Voodoo2 Board Remapper service failed to start due to the following error: The system cannot find the file specified."

--> how to fix it? How to "load the original 3dfx memory mapper"? What is this?

Thanks!

Hello all,

I installed  FastVoodoo2 4.0 XP GE driver for my 2xVoodoo2 12Mb and I'm getting this famous "Mapmem driver initialization failure" when I try running NBA Live 99 or Unreal Tournament

Check the SS:


Tried the fix but it didn't help...

What now?

My system:
ABIT BX133-RAID motherboard
Pentium III 1Ghz CPU
512Mb SDRAM Kingston CAS 2-2-2 memory
ATI Radeon 8500 AGP 64Mb (also tried with a SIS 6324 8Mb AGP, no luck)
2 x Voodoo2 (Creative Labs) 12Mb SLI
SoundBlaster Live! 5.1
3Com 10/100 ethernet card
Windows XP SP2

Thanks in advance!

QuoteOriginally posted by ps47


you can use the new glides in any driver,btw.

Thanks for the clarification!

So all I need to do is to overwrite the files that came with this new driver over the ones that are already on the system?

Thanks,

QuoteOriginally posted by Gaucho

(...)
Now I was reading this post:
http://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1839

What are the advantages of using this driver? What are the improvements I can get with?
Also, what is that "FxMemMap VxD Version: Not Present" option that I see on the sysinfo link of the Voodoo2?

Thanks!

Up! can someone clarify?

QuoteOriginally posted by Spectrobozo

Gaucho, voce diz artefato na tela de boot e windows!? sera que o problema nao esta na sua placa 2d? a V2 so fica em uso em 3d..

Greetings Spectrobozo! Nice to see you here :-)

Let's keep it in english :-P

Yes, I was having some artifacts during the boot screen and also on windows, even on games. I'm not sure the reason, though... all I know is that I've shut the computer down (for a couple of days actually), inverted the cards (PCI slots 3/4) and lowered the CPU (and AGP as a side effect) overclock from 963Mhz (113Mhz FSB) to 800Mhz (100Mhz FSB) - (Celeron Coppermine 566Mhz, that runs at 66Mhz by default). AGP card was lowered from 75Mhz to 66Mhz in this process, but my R8500 always run at this clock (75Mhz).

So I really have no clue about the artifacts. All I know is that now everything is fine again, I let 3dMark 2k1 runnig all night long with all settings to high to stress the card (the R8500) and nothing happened...

About the SLI detection, I just uninstalled FastVoodoo 4.0 and used Anthony's Basic Voodoo2 Driver for Win2K and WinXP... bingo! ALTOUGH, in this case also, I'm not sure if the driver was the problem or the inversion of the cards on the PCI slots also helped...

Regards,

QuoteOriginally posted by skinnie

want to sse some serious bench with v2?

stb black magic @97mhz


creative v2 SLI


win98se sp2.1a+p4@sig

Hey, how did you run 3Dmark 2k1 on the voodoos? On my machine, I'm not allowed to select them (they are in SLI), only the primary display (R8500)...

Thanks,

Hello ps47,

thanks for the tip. I've removed FastVoodoo and tried Anthony's Basic Voodoo2 Driver for Win2K and WinXP. SLI was recognized and everything is running fine now, altough the main reason I think SLI was not being recognized was that I've swapped the V2 cards on the PCI slots... yes, I know this has no sense at all, but when I received them in the package, they were connected like this per the SLI cable (I've deattached the SLI cable and "inverted" them on the system)... who knows anyway :-)

Now I was reading this post:
http://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1839

What are the advantages of using this driver? What are the improvements I can get with?
Also, what is that "FxMemMap VxD Version: Not Present" option that I see on the sysinfo link of the Voodoo2?

Thanks!

You can unstick this topic now :-)

Greetings folks!

I've acquired a pair of V2 12Mb and put them together on my Soyo 6BA +III (chipset Intel BX, Celeron II 566@963Mhz, 384Mb RAM + 1NIC + 1SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 + ISA scanner card).

Everything worked fine from the start-up. Run Unreal in 1024x768 in Glide w/o problems. Windows run rock solid. But the V2 driver did not detect the SLI link (FastXP 4.0)... so I tried to invert the SLI cable, inverted the cards on slots 3 and 4, inverted the VGA loop cable (instead of inserting on the first V2 card, I plugged it on the 2nd) but nothing helped...

Also, after 2 weeks of use, some artifacts started to appear on the screen. First on Windows, but I rebooted and it was also there on the boot screen/BIOS screen... only a few points, but things got worse after some hours. So I've lowered the clock of the processor to 800Mhz (FSB 100 x and it stopped worsen. But they still there.

So right now I don't know why these artifacts are appearing: are they caused by the V2's??? Or by the main video card? Or by the motherboard? (I've run this configuration for ~8 years)

Second, why SLI isn't recogized? Any ideas?

Thanks

Yes!!!








Perfect! Cards arrived, working 100%

This topic can be closed now.

Regards,

Thanks Nightbird! I'm bidding on a pais of voodoo2 on ebay, but looks like it'll tought to win this one

Greetings all,  

my first message here. :-)

Well, it's been quite some time that I'm looking for two 3dfx Voodoo2 12Mb to setup a SLI on my old (and only) Celeron II 566@963Mhz + 512Mb SDRAM + Radeon 8500 LE.  

I wanna play Q2, UT99, NFSII, etc on glide w/o getting rid of my current R8500

I'm not sure if this is the right place, but is there someone willing to sell me one or two Voodoo2 12Mb?

Best regards from Brasil,