Ivoire,
As your still using Win98, try with the last x3dfx drivers, the 1.07's. I currently use those drivers and they are great for all the dx8+ titles.  

Thanks for your replies guys.....
Arch, is your Radeon ATI brand or something else? Also is it 128 or 256 bit?

System specs are:

AMD XP2800+ @ 2.4ghz
1 gb ddr 400
Asus A7X8-X

Lol, the voodoo5 doesn't support fastwrite, so you wouldn't gain any performance.
A while ago I read a FAQ about fastwrite on the nvidia line of cards, and it actually lowered the performance, rather than achieved a gain.....

After a long battle with fighting the urge, the voodoo5 pci is getting a little bit slow at running the newer titles, so I'm looking to upgrade sometime soon.  
Now the question is what? I've basically narrowed it down to a Sapphire Radeon, but I'm not prepared to shell out big $$$ to get a 9800XT. Here is AUS, they go for approx $700AUS, and considering I paid $150 for a spanking new Gamecube, I really don't want to spend that sorta cash on a vid card!  
So the choice is basically a 9600 of some sort, or a lower end 9800. Is it true all the 9800 are 256bit/8pipelines or only the 9800xt?
Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.

@ Flash,
Lol, believe it my friend, it looks good, but runs really bad (about 5fps).
After attempting to play it to see what it was like, I found it was exactly the same map as CT1, so what a huge let down by Sega!! Not worth playing in my opinion....

What are the required hardware specs for the game after the updated engine? eg cpu speed, video memory etc...

Just a quick note for you guys, if your running win9x and using the 3dfx tools, the official 3dfx overclocker.exe changes both VSA's as well, not only one.  

Downloaded Dead Man's Hand demo last night(FPS), and was pleased to see it works flawlessly on my Voodoo5 pci.  Settings are as follows: Win98SE, - X3dfx 1.07 drivers, dx9b. 800x600 2x FSAA normal details, smooth gameplay.
It's based on the new UT engine, so it should work for everybody... Will post screenies soon..

Great work Koolsmoky, thanks once again for your hard work!
Just a quick question though, does anyone know if the official 3dfx overclocking tool just does one VSA or both?

@ Obi-Wan Kenobi
man, that is absolutly amazing!!
Kudos on your collection!!!!!!!

At 1600x1200 the voodoo5  only uses one VSA chip, thus the poor performance, so only 2x would be possible...

Thanks a million Dborca and Koolsmoky for all your hard work in Mesa 6!!! You guys absolutely, postively rock!!!

Lookng forward to trying Doom3 on the V5 pci 2nite..

Didn't the 1.18 bios originally come from the Voodoo5 6000?

None of the HW TnL patches work for win9x, however we have GA and also 3DA.
Vooduser,
Just use 3DA for spiderman, I got it working a while ago with it..

amp_man,
Lol. thx