It works.  The only fiddly part is that sometimes one card refuses to pass the video through to the next, so I have to swap cables to see the display.  I don't know if an SST variable may allow control over one card or the other while launching, or if I will use a KVM switch to get around this.  Still, I have been able to run both Voodoo1 only games like Whiplash and Xcar, as well as Voodoo2 games on the same machine, so this is a success so far.

...and I give up.  I put in the Voodoo2 cards and Carmageddon runs without the stuttering audio.  It would probably be easier if I could resolve the Voodoo1 problem, but this will do.

Hi,

I am struggling to get Carmageddon working on my Voodoo2 card.  It has been a very long time since I did this, and I seem to be missing something.  I've tried several versions of the Glide drivers and followed the upgrade instructions for Carmageddon and Voodoo2, but it just won't work.  Mostly the program window runs Voodo2C.exe and says "finished" without doing anything.  Trying to run in DOS or Windows98 DOS mode just hangs with a black screen.

If anyone has this working, I would appreciate any tips, such as what version of the drivers that you are using, and steps that I may have forgotten.

Thanks

I'm giving this a try.  So far I have the Voodoo1 and two Voodoo2 cards installed, and successfully tested a game on the Voodoo1.  Later I'll see about running something on the Voodoo2.

The reason I am doing this is that I have a handful of Voodoo1 only games that I haven't played or want to revisit, but since I'm having trouble with one game on the Voodoo1, I thought I might see how it does on the Voodoo2.  In any case, the extra resolution of the Voodoo2 is appreciated, but I don't want to get in the situation of swapping cards when I change games, or needing too many systems.

It should be that if I take the glide ovl files out to the Windows folder and put them in each game folder, they will run with the card that I am intending, right?

Thanks

After some more testing, I've found that the distortion does not occur in all games, but in DOS glide games such as Carmageddon and Blood.  

Both of these games have good audio in software rendered mode.

Some of the games with built-in Glide support such as Whiplash and Archimedean Dynasty have no problem, in spite of being hardware accelerated.  

I don't know if the problem may be due to a specific version of the Glide ovl, my motherboard chipset/bios settings, or something else.  So far I have tried four different sound cards (ISA and PCI) that all have the same distortion, like very rapid stuttering that speeds up and slows down, probably corresponding to CPU load or bus activity.

Thanks

Hi,

I mean a 3Dfx Voodoo1 hardware accelerated Glide game rather than a software rendered game.  The audio is fine with software accelerated games.  I have not tried any D3D games, as I am only worried about getting Glide games working.

Thanks

Hi,

I am trying to use a 3Dfx Voodoo1 card in a 750mhz Pentium system running DOS 6.22 or Windows98, and have tried both an ISA Sound Blaster Pro 2 and PCI Hoontech SoundTrack Digital XG sound card.  Whenever a Voodoo game is running, the sound cuts in and out several times a second and is garbled and distorted.

I have tried both enabling a PCI "delayed transaction" option in the BIOS, and also adding SST_FASTPCIRD=0 in autoexec.bat with no effect.

Can anyone suggest what I may be doing wrong?

Thanks

I am quite pleased.  I was worried that the motherboard failure might have damaged the card, since there was display corruption while the old board was in its last hours.  I have had to dispose of several video cards in the past due to failed video ram, so I was afraid the 6000 was damaged.

Fortunately, after getting a good board (with no swollen capacitors) and running tests for several hours, there have been no video errors at all.  I also have another board on order which should be compatible with the 6000, and is brand new in box, so I hope I will be able to keep this card running for a long time.

I did have a backup of my system configuration, so the 6000 is fortunately still configured as I left it.  Now I just need to play some games.

Cheers!

Okay, I got another board, this time, a SOYO KT333 Dragon Ultra Platinum Edition.  After testing with the 5500 with no problems, I switched to the 6000 and everything is working quite well.  I'm running an Athlon XP 2600+ in this system.

Since someone asked, here are photos of my 6000

http://home.roadrunner.com/~neurocrash/photos.html

I added heat sinks to the ram chips, and the power connectors to the board.

Cheers!

Nevermind... This Epox board is definitely defective - probably due to bad/bulging capacitors.  I replaced it with a ASUS board that seems to be running properly with the 5500 at least.

Thanks!

BIOS Update did not help...  I've gone back to the V5 5500 for testing.  I got a 5500 driver to install, and everything looks okay in 2D but as soon as I launch a 3D application (about 10-20 seconds) the system hangs.  Maybe I've got to change some AGP setting in the BIOS, or perhaps this board is defective?

I've run a CPU burn-in test, memory test, and hard disk test - each of those pass with no problems.

Thanks!

Grrr... No matter what I try, I can't get the 6000 drivers to install correctly.  I get a message that my display adapter is not configured properly.  I'm using Windows98 and have tried a wide selection of drivers which all have the same result.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

The problems were due to two issues:

This board doesn't like some of my CPUs and either fails to POST or shuts down very quickly (unless the CPU fan is at 5000rpm).  Temperature does not seem to be the cause.

One of my V5 5500s is dead.

As I often have AGP problems, I resorted to testing the system with a PCI V5 5500, and once I got it running, switched to the AGP variety.

The fastest CPU I have been able to run is a 2100+, and I'm hoping to find something faster if anyone has any suggestions.

I got the 6000 to POST, so now I'm restoring the OS image to test and hopefully nothing was damaged.

Thanks!

Greetings,

I got an Epox 8KA3, but it will not POST with either of my V5 5500 installed (so I'm not inclined to try the 6000).  It does seem to work fine with another card.  Any suggestions?

Thanks!

My Voodoo5 6000 worked until the last time this system would boot, but the motherboard and ram are bad as further testing has demonstrated.  I have no way to test the 6K right now.

I do not have a Voodoo Volts, and power my card directly from two of the leads on the PSU.  I had originally attached a molex connector to the power terminals on the card, but the connector turned brown from heat, and I decided that was probably not a sign of a good (low resistance) connection.

The motherboard was a Leadtek Winfast 7350KDA (I think) but since it definitely tested bad, I got rid of it.  I had two of these boards and both have failed; the last one died due to bulging capacitors and a squealing toroid.

The lastest motherboard died as I tried to boot the system up for the first time in a few weeks.  Recently, it had gotten so it would take a few tries to get the system to boot.  Then, once at the desktop, there was some corruption in the desktop wallpapers (bad ram I think).  Then the system partition got corrupted by the the bad ram, then Windows "repaired" itself such that it wouldn't boot at all.  More testing allowed me to verify that the motherboard was bad (changed PSU and RAM), and also that the RAM was bad (extensive testing with Memtest on another motherboard).

I just need to wait until I can get one of these replacement motherboads that has a compatible AGP slot, since all of the ones I have remaining are apparently too new :/

Stupid arbitrary changes in technology really annoy me.

Cheers!