Hi, as you may not know, i bought my V2 3.0 to play one game in particular, Ubisoft's F1 Racing Simulation. I managed to track the game down at Gametraders (HOORAY! ) and then got a V2 because it looks much better in glide. After some trouble getting it working, (and some help from ps47, thanks bro) and he reccomended the Voodoo2 V3.03.00b DirectX 7 Beta driver and all was well, i could play Quake 1 and that was about it. Well it was all i tested. I was ecstatic when the game detected my voodoo and installed the game. I launched it and... My bios screen showed up. The PC had rebooted! 

Now if im not mistaken, this game was made for the voodoo 1 (1996) and im not sure if its a compatibilty issue. Im using an AMD Athlon XP and my V2 is hooked into a GeForce 2 MX.

Could someone suggest something to fix this (as its the reason i bought the V2 lol )

Make sure you are patched:

ftp://ftp.ubisoft.com/F1Racing/

In order to find out the problem, you should try other different things. Running the same game and the same configuration over and over will give us little or no info:

- F1RS also supports D3D. Try the D3D renderer with both the Voodoo2 and the primary display device.

- Try the Glide renderer with a Glide wrapper.

- Play more games. Other Ubisoft titles with a very similar technology are POD and Rayman 2.

- Also try to install this update to the game folder (ignore the recommended folder): ftp://ftp.ubisoft.com/PodUpgrade/glide.exe

Then post here some feedback about your progress.

Ok. Here are the results from the D3D version of F1RS... Theyre not good 

First off, I tried D3D WITH the voodoo (and the 1.09 patch) and got a "There is no 3D present'. So I shut off windows 98, hooked the monitor into the Geforce 2 and rebooted. I got a "There is no 3D present" AGAIN. So i did an uninstall and reinstall and got the same message.
So I physically took the voodoo out of the machine and got the no 3D present error.

Great, more problems 

Also, Im using a V2 Dx7 Driver and the game was made for Dx5, It's probably not a problem but

Ok ok ok. Good news and bad news

The good news is... I changed to the Latest Ref. Driver (DX 7) and the card ran in DX and in Glide(V-Rally)

Bad news... I was installing NFS3 and i accidentally reset the PC as it was doing nothing just as the setup program loaded. The PC hung on reboot. So i reinstalled 98 and installed the drivers and it hung on reboot. New PCI slot, hung on reboot then Fatal Exception OR at 0167:BFF99b42

I dont THINK (not saying its not) the card's f*cked or i may be using the wrong drivers. OH and heres the list of what i installed

1. nVidia Foreware drivers
2. DirectX 7a
3.Voodoo 2 DX7 Drivers

Up until it hung i was getting it to run in DX and it was detected in DXDiag


HALPS PLZ!! 


EDIT: I reckon its a driver problem... Quoting ps47 on the help he gave me

Quote:

I think i'll try DX 8.1 with these drivers, and if that screws up im going for a DX 6.1 driver, as thats what 98 ship with (according to DXDiag)

EDIT 2: Ok no more lockups or hangs, but now V-Rally gives me a BSOD when dx version is launched and an illegal operation in Glide mode. (With the DX 6.1 driver)

EDIT 3: I think i'll try the DX 7 beta driver first with DX 7.0a before i use the 3rd party driver as im not too keen on using them

Hmm...Im running vista with DX11,and all of my Glide games workz great:
GL Quake
turok
Messiah
I have a Voodoo 2 installed on my Rampage II extreme ^^next too my Geforce 8800 Ultra
So i think this has nothing to do wich DX u use on ur windows^^

elfuego wrote on 04.10.11 at 23:27:21:



Thanks for the tips!!!

I might get around to trying this later on today. I currently dont think its a hardware problem as I have played GLquake with the card. I didnt think about installing any MB drivers, so thanks for letting me know about it.

1 Question, if i use DX 8.1, do i need V2 DX8.1 drivers, or can I get away with using a DX 7 one?

Thank you all for the help,

-Quaker762