Can anyone help me???  I am looking for drivers for my Voodoo3 2000 PCI 16meg Vid card that are better than the one I got now.  I am currently using the Voodoo3 1.07.00b  It manages to work well with directx8 and that but is there one that'll work with dx8.1???  I have a game that actually will run  with my current driver but not quite right.  It is a racing game and the car is all one colour andthe windows don't show.  It says it needs a dx 8.1 compliant driver.

That one is dx8.1 compliant?  I will try it and report back.  Thanks.  

What is SFFT anyways?  

Ok...I looked at the SFFT...I don't think I can use it.  I am running Win98se.  I don't know if it will run on Win98se, but if you know of a slightly earlier version let me know.

1.07.00b is as good as you can get if you are running win9x,and yes,it is dx8.1 compliant (so your problem may be elsewhere,a lacking feature such as large texture support for example),this can be seen when running a game that requires a dx8.1 compliant driver for proper function-such as age of mythology,the game displays bad graphics artifacts when using the last 1.07.00WHQL dx7 driver but runs fine when using 1.07.00b (check the driver version to see the difference-its 4.12.xxx for 1.07.00WHQL=dx7,and 4.13.xxx for 1.07.00b=dx8.1).

if you want to use the SFFT driver (the latest voodoo3/4/5 DX8/9 driver for win2000/xp),you will have to change your OS as mentioned already,but it should be noted that this step wont give you a big game compatibility boost anyway-I dont really remember a game that works with SFFT under win2000/xp and doesnt work with 1.07.00b under win9x at the same time (when using a voodoo3).

if you need to get a particular game running,either post your problem here with all the details,or you can check the game guide in my sig,the fix may already be there.I can even test the game for you if necessary,I have two voodoo3 test machines sitting in the corner,one with xp and one with 98se..

..gave it a little spin,same behaviour both under 98se and under xp.my guess would be the texture size limit of the voodoo3 (max 256*256 textures,and some textures are apparently larger,and therefore not displayed).not much you can do..

this is one last thing I would really love to see in some thirdparty driver-D3D texture rescaling (resizing)=support for larger textures.and its definitely doable,since it works so lovely under opengl (mesafx)..

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Would #d Analyzer from www.tommti-systems.de on the #dfx Tolls page in the archive be a good program to pick up?  Would it help with anything?

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Yes, I suggested the implementation and tested it, actually worked quite well, except for distorting some Menus (if they were setup as a large Texture) and somewhat reduced quality (no Texture filtering, just plain Pixel reduction)

But ever since Thomas broke off all communication for no apparent reason, never heard anything about it anymore.

I'm not sure if he still answers to EMail, but AmigaMerlin had an identical Set of Alpha Releases for testing. Maybe he retained a copy of the sessions we did back then.

..I'll send him a pm via the 3dfxzone message board,lets hope he likes to back up his old files a lot.

Hi.  It's been a while since I posted something here.  I still am lookign for newer or better WIn98se drivers for my Voodoo3 2000 16meg vid card.  However I also saw something on here recently that piqued my interest.  I read something about flashing the bios of my card.  What is this?  How do I do it?  Can it be done on my card at all?  I ask this becaus I recently saw something about altering the bios with a better/newer one to in effect make the card to be a Voodoo 3 3000. If it is possible, what is better about the 3000 version than my current 2000 model?  Are there better drivers for the 3000?