Everything looks like it should.  I suspect you are right though, probably the capacitors are going bad internally somewhere on the card, since they haven't broken off.  Dangit, I'm tempted to try and find another one on E-bay.  I've really had the bug to build a retro gaming box lately, after going over all the new hardware out there for my main rig that I'm going to build.  I just thought it would be cool to have something state-of-the-art, late 90's nostalgia style hehe.

I went to install my Voodoo 5500 AGP on an system I'm putting together for old games, and I have artifacts starting on the boot-up screen, so it's not a driver issue.  Shoot, I have a bunch of cool old games I like to play like System Shock 2,, Thief, and even Asheron's Call which is still going since 1999.  They look so much better on the Voodoo, I wish there was something I could do about the card.

Hey all =)  I've been trying to show some other people on the net how the Voodoo looks compared to a Geforce 4200ti, but all the utilities I've used to take the screenshots so far fail to capture the actual in-game picture.  I understand that this is because screenshots come from the frame buffer before they are blended in hardware, and I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to get them afterwards.  

Basically, the Geforce screenies are accurate; jaggies, weird lighting effects, etc.  The Voodoo, however, is nice and smooth and the lighting is clean in-game.  But when I take a shot in-game it looks exactly like the Geforce- because the superior antialiasing routine of the Voodoo hasn't been applied in the pic.  It might just be my imagination, but when I use my voodoo to play the game, the actual colors seem more vivid and the lighting seems more "true", if that makes any sense.

So anyway, someone has some ideas?

Both the in-game screenshot and "Quick Screen Capture 2.1".  They both look pretty much the same, which is to say rather bad.  Looking at some of the awesome shots people here have posted makes me wonder what they are using!

hi =)  I've been trying to take screenshots in a game to show how great my voodoo 5500 makes it look, but it comes out terrible.  How do you guys take such good screenshots?  Mine look like they only capture one frame of the antialias routine, and that makes everything look jaggy and horrible (almost like an Nvidia card =).  Thanks!