I have a Voodoo 3500 TV video card! I'm running it in an old IBM PC 300PL which is basically a Pentium III 733. I have run this card in it before but had to replace the hard drive. This is a dual boot system. It is XP PRO and WIN98SE.

I installed the Voodoo drivers on the 98 install from the disk that I still have with the card. I don't know what version these drivers are. I plan to update to the latest officially supported drivers for my 98 install unless one of you suggest something vastly better and can support it with some documentation.

I went with the default Microsoft Voodoo drivers for the XP install but am considering going for installing a good third party driver so again, I'm asking for suggestions there too.

Lastly and mainly, I'm wondering if I have to uninstall the old drivers before upgrading them on the 98 install or do I just install the latest drivers right over the original ones from the CD? Let me know people. Thanks!

1) Your title is unclear, it says nothing about your post, that's why you have 25 views and no replies (btw, that's normal, don't freak out over it).

2) Win98; AmigaSport drivers should be the best option here.

3) ALWAYS delete old drivers before installing newer ones.

4) Microsoft's drivers are only basic 2D drivers. 3D acceleration will be done in software mode.

5) Is the 3dfx toolbox installed properly? Can you start it manually? If so, you might have to add it to the startup folder in Start > Programs. (Maybe not even neccessary; there might be an option in 3dfx Tools)

OK, I noticed in WIN98SE that I do have a 3DFX Toolbox in my control panel and no there is not one in my system tray. The one in my control panel opens up and I have three listings there with boxes next to each of them that have checks in them. They are:

3dfx Info
3dfx TV
3dfx Tweaks

If I click on any of them the check goes away and that is all. They give me no access to anything cool or options or anything like it should. I feel like I didn't install something I guess.

Hermskii wrote on 22.12.09 at 05:34:48:



It might just be that the drivers dont have any demos to watch etc. Sometimes the oem drivers are just barebones and only do what they HAVE to do. And strictly just that. Do your games run? Test your games and let us know how it goes.

I'm a moron. The settings I was looking for were in the advanced section of the display settings for my 98 install. On my XP install I have a icon in the system tray that gets me to all of these options. I guess it is working fine.

3dfxit.com? Hhmm. Ive never heard of it  Ill check it out. Yea. This is a good site. I was out of the computer scene for about 7 or 8 years. Then When I got back into it one of the sites that I still remembered was falconfly. 

Flying penguin came to mind also for quake. haha. theflyingpenguin.com

As far as the 3500 goes. I believe the voodoo 4500 and 5500 are the only cards that will do AA. But, I installed just a voodoo 3000 in a computer I built for my dad. It was funny how the 3000 was faster than what I was used too, since the last setup I had in the late 90s which was a v2 sli. I was able to pick up a v5500 agp on Ebay for about $25 with shipping due to the heat sinks missing.   

My bad. I misspelled it. Here is the actual link:

http://www.3dfxzone.it/index.php