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Title: Best driver for WinXP/AMD 1800+/Voodoo3
Post by MAFIA on 28.03.03 at 15:57:29

Hi,
I still have this old voodoo card ::)
I was supposed to buy a new,but I've got no money momentarily ;D so I must be satisfied with my good,old voodoo 3 ;)
Can you help tell me what the best drivers for the voodoo3 are,please? ::)

I've got

WindowsXP
AMD Athlon 1800+
Voodoo3 3000

Please help me!!I want to play some games :'(

Title: Re: Best driver for WinXP/AMD 1800+/Voodoo3
Post by MAFIA on 07.04.03 at 01:33:17

Well...Voodoo WAS the best graphicscard...but now it's only a piece of s**t!nvidia dominates the graphics market and the good,old voodoo ends up in garbage pail!

Title: Re: Best driver for WinXP/AMD 1800+/Voodoo3
Post by paulpsomiadis on 07.04.03 at 12:43:55

Yo MAFIA! :P

Whatsa' point of askin' fer' drivers if yer' just gonna' diss' the Voodoo chipset anyhow! >:(

I use DUAL Voodoo 2's with most of my old games and emulators and they're STILL faster than anything D3D or OpenGL can match!!! ;D

Nuff said methinks! 8)

Also, well spoken patience! ;)

Title: Re: Best driver for WinXP/AMD 1800+/Voodoo3
Post by FalconFly on 08.04.03 at 20:08:18

Hehe...

At least here at my home, 3dfx still dominates in numbers (running UT2003 like a blast :) )...

...followed by my only current ATI Card (which in turn blows anything NVidia currently has) :

the Radeon 9700 pro ;D

Anyway, for as long as there's a chance to have those 3dfx Cards run modern Games, that's reason enough to try everything possible.

I still believe, that many problems are resident in the presently available Drivers. Only when basic Hardware limitations fail (e.g. only 16MB Video RAM), there's not much we can do...

Although there is alot of workarounds theoretically possible (e.g. like the latest GxpOGL did add Beta compressed DXT1/S3TC Texture support under OpenGL even for Voodoo3 ;) )