Yes!  That "driver install"  works well if Windows Installer 2.0 has been installed, but gives that blue screen otherwise.  At least I think that's the reason.

So, you can either download it from Microsoft seperately or install something that has it in it.

However, you can also do the install without it.

Run the driver install file.  See if you can "space" out of the blue screen.  If you can, then go into device manager and right click your Standard PCI Graphics Adapter under the Display Adapter section.  Choose Properties, then under the driver tab click update driver.  Point it to the folder that the Evolution setup extracted its files to (I think it C:\Evolution or C:\Raziel Evolution or something like that).  Reboot when asked.  Then install the latest Voodoo Control (I think it's 1.82 beta) and you're all set.

Make sure you get the latest Evolution driver from his website (1.0.16 I think).  You don't get the 3dfx Tools, but everything works better.

I still noticed some weird color problems in places so I removed those (and Driver Cleaner really helps with this), and installed the last WHQL's (1.04).  If I want to play some newer games I'll go back to the Evolution or the Amigamerlin 2.9's.  At least we have several quality choices here.  And switching drivers isn't the hastle it used to be before DriverCleaner.

You could have used 3rd party Tools like DirectX Buster, there are several Programs that can uninstall DirectX

Oops, sorry I didn't know that.

Seems MicroSoft gave its DirectX9 some more grappling hooks to claw into the installed system

Naughty Microsoft...

I also found that you can use 3dfxTools instead of VoodooControl if you prefer (I do) on the Evolution drivers.  Just install the new (modern) version, not the old fashioned one, from the download section on this site after you've installed the Evolution driver.  All the Evolution additional settings that were in the 3dfxTools included with the older Evolution driver versions will show up.  I don't know what they do but they are there.

If you want the help file you can extract the Amigamerlin 2.9 drivers.  Create a folder called Help in the 3dfx Interactive folder and copy the english version from the Help folder in Amigamerlin's drivers.  Then rename it to what it is in the error message when you try to open it from 3dfx Tools right click menu (I forget and don't have the Voodoo installed on this system), and copy the file (gotta be a .chm extention) to the Windows\Help folder.

Using the Amigamerlin's "Best" settings FAQ for the 2.9 on his website (it's a forum post, not the 3.0 ones the site links to) is a good way to optimize the card for newer games.  I usually use a combination of the Speedy, Quality, and Balanced recommendations for my own preferences.

As installed it's okay for older games but not really optimized by the defaults even for them.

I don't see a problem with DirectX 9.0c with my stuff.  And most of my games are older.  Try installing Dotnet 1.1 and the Windows Update service pack for it.  Then you can install the DirectX 9.0c update for managed DirectX.  This makes it work better as it has more direct hardware access.  Speeds it up.