I didn't use both win9x and voodoo cards since 2002 I guess, and now when I try to come back, it's such a pain in the ass. My silly question is: does voodoo driver installation is just running setup and rebooting? Or do you then have to install the glide driver and other stuff? I've just installed latest reference driver for my V5 5500 and ok, there is this 3dfx tray tool, d3d works (at least in 3dm 2k), but when I run 3d setup from NFS3, there is no glide device. What do I crappity smack up? Was it really so hard to install a stupid driver back in the days? I really don't recall
My machine is v5 5500, amd athlon 750 and this crappy windows 98se.
You are all welcome to help

Yep that patch helped I guess
Not to start a new thread, can you tell me what score should I expect in 3dmark 2000 default benchmark with Athlon 1GHz? I get about 3950 points using 3dfx Voodoo4/5 V1.04.00 drivers. I googled around and it seems, that this is like 20 % below expectations. Are there any bios/driver settings that I should look over?

ps47 wrote on 19.06.09 at 08:15:44:

Ok, good point So I've installed latest stable MesaFX and here's what I got:
Quake 3 Arena, demo four (1024x768x32 gl driver: default (I guess I can't switch to 'voodoo' driver), everything maxed out): 43.5 fps
Unreal Gold, timedemo (1024x678x16 Glide, everything maxed out): 95.2 fps
And 3dmark 2001 SE default benchmark: 1607 points
What can you tell me about these numbers?
Oh is there no support for OpenGL in Unreal?

I did some tests with self recorded demo in UT GOTY:

Looks like something is limiting my Voodoo. Any sugestions are very welcome

Edit: Maybe you can suggest some further tests?

Sorry, my bad. My cpu is Athlon 1 GHz (Slot A, 10x100 MHz) + 256 MB RAM. According to your TIP, I did to more tests:
1024x768x16 Glide:
Min fps set to 10: 33/59/89 fps
Min fps set to 100: 36/62/88
Ok, let's say it helped a bit, but what it really does?
And regarding my CPU, I thought it will be enought for the voodoo, it was one of the fastes cpu at the time (with $ 1299 price tag ).

elfuego wrote on 21.06.09 at 13:28:45:

Nope, this is Pluto/Orion core So may we assume, that my voodoo is ok and rest of the machine is just to weak? Top platform for voodoos is KT333, right?

Maf wrote on 21.06.09 at 13:34:24:


Thats right Top platform for AGP voodoo is KT333. For PCI versions... Well.. sky is the limit

So I refreshed my machine and here are my latest scores:

Do these results look now alright? Like for an average voodoo 5 5500? Should I upgrade drivers or anything else? Any suggestions are very welcome.