It was the digital sound I didn't like on the awe32... but I gave up the gravis for an awe64 gold which I had for a LONG time.  amazing card.

very nice... I had an awe32 and the digital sound from that was so bad... but the awe64 was a nice card.   I still have an old GusMax in the original box with all accessories.... I would love to fire that up again.

yeah, I remember feeling very weird about having a card that did 2d and 3d... ha!  long long time ago... thanks for the other link.  Awe64 gold brings back some memories also.. I remember buying mine at a computer show in Santa Barbara, CA.  Back when going to "the show" (as we called it) was the best way to get good cheap hardware... the internet certainly killed that.  lol.  sigh.  but I loved going to those.. such a playground for hardware enthusiasts.

very cool stuff man.  I love these retro builds... the good old days were so good.   keep the pics coming.

Seriously though, if true this is awesome..  and how do you edit a post on this forum?  sheesh.  Anyways.... if voodoo comes back from the grave I will be happy.

QuoteOriginally posted by revenant

so how many bungholio marks do you get on one of those?

so how many bungholio marks do you get on one of those?

my 3dfx setup

From what I have read it will work but they will function as 8mb cards in SLI mode.

yeah, that would be cool.  Maybe if someone has a G4 cube we could see what those leads do and kind of reverse engineer it.  Maybe start with the manual?

http://home.earthlink.net/~strahm_s/manuals.html

Thanks!  yeah, I am using miniGL for openGL right now... when I tried to install the wickedGL 3.02 package it gave me an error.. something like "no space to unzip" or something.. I have 90G free so not sure what's up with that...  it actually did unzip too when I clicked "ok" but the setup.exe wouldn't run.  the miniGL seems to be working fine but I see most people here prefer the wickedGL.. I might try and DL it again but things are working ok for now.  I got my second v2 and SLI'd them up.  It's so cool how well this old hardware still runs.

doing a quick google doesn't show a lot of info about this adapter.. but it certainly looks like it requires some extra juice and maybe signaling from the motherboard?  J6 looks like a power connector to me..

I have a Gravis ultrasound max with the 1mb upgrade... in original box with all original disks and docs..  such a great card for it's time, especially for the demo scene, but lack of direct sound drivers killed it.  

PS:  the text on the info tab is also messed up.  kind of like described here:

"Neither driver showed all of that information as legibly as your screenshot does. It almost looked like the text was off center."

I can only see some info but it's like the text was too big for the info box... I am wondering if the Nvidia drivers are interfering or something.. I might try and old ATI card is the primary.. also maybe using the stock voodoo2 driver for xp.


edit: AHHH... ok, looks like XP is the issue here... nothing based on the NT kernel will allow glide to run D3D according to this:

"V2 SLI runs best under win9x/ME, XP drivers don't have D3D support, there is only support for glide/opengl."

http://helppage.3dfx.sk/#SLI

I found that from this thread.

http://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=13582

Hi all.. I am setting up a voodoo2 rig (I have two diamond 12G cards) and am running only 1 card atm.  I have tried the fastvoodoo2 4.0 GE drivers and koolsmoky's drivers.. I have to use the fix memmap error patch also because I always get that unless I use the patch after changing drivers..  the weird thing is, under the 3dfx v2-1000 tab in my video control panel I have only a drop down selection for "Glide" and nothing for "Direct3D".  Is this normal??  

the rest of the system is:

MSI K7N2 Delta-L with xp2600+
Riva TNT2 64
SB Audigy

I am running windows xp sp3 and the 61.77 nvidia drivers for the TNT2 and directx is patched to it's fullest I can get on xp32.  I have tried cleaning and reinstalling the Glide drivers a few times and always the option for Direct3D does not show up in the 3dfx control panel.   Glide apps work fine but when I run something like Star Wars DFII it doesn't use the voodoo card for sure...

Any ideas??

I saw this video today randomly before I read this post... he does have a geforce3 ti200 in there also... not easy to tell what was playing the game unless he changed the video cable to the master voodoo card to be sure it wasn't the geforce card.