I'm running XP SP2 and a Voodoo 5 5500 AGP.

When I have the default Microsoft drivers installed, everything works fine.  But when I install Amigamerlin or SFFT, everything crashes.  During the intro I will get lines across the screen like this:

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It will either freeze, very rarely XP will kick back in having disabled the video adapter so I can restart, or most often it will BSoD with a 3dfxsv error.

I can still run Windows fine no matter which drivers are installed, and run games like Final Fantasy 7 just fine if it's in software renderer.

I've tried everything I can think of.  I've manually cleared out all the drivers by uninstalling, rebooting into safemode and deleting every dll by hand until Windows could only detect the adapter.  Then I could install a clean set.  I've even tried reinstalling Windows from the ground up.  And every time, these same lines+crashing in all games.

I would just give up and use the Microsoft drivers, but nothing like 3dfx Tools or Vcontrol works with them.  So what's the deal?

I have an older desktop with a Voodoo 5, I've been using the SFFT drivers.  What I'm wondering is whether there are any 3dfx drivers or software that will let me adjust things like the brightness and colors?  I would like to keep using SFFT if possible but I could switch if it was the only way.

I tried searching around but couldn't find any helpful information, either here or across Google.

The game will not work with the Amigamerlin 3.0 drivers on my Voodoo5 5500 video card, in Windows XP.  The below screenshots are the result:


If anybody has any ideas I'd love to hear them.  I think it worked fine with the Microsoft drivers that automatically are installed for Voodoo cards, so I suppose between this and Rise of Nations I'm giving up for the time being on second-party drivers.  They're way too much trouble than what they're worth for the control over their configuration.