Hi all

I just dusted off my old Creative Labs Voodoo2 card and I am trying to install it in my Win98 rig.

I am unable to get Win98 to detect it as a Voodoo2, as I am sure it did when I first had it. It just sees it as a "PCI Multimedia Device"

The Radeon I have is an AGP card, and I have the V2 card connected to it via the passthru cable.

I don't have the original installation disk, but since the card isn't being detected, it's not a big deal.

Any ideas as to why Win98 isn't seeing the card as a Voodoo2?

Thanks,

I  have downloaded some V2 reference drivers. I then extracted them. I then reinstalled the multimedia device drivers using the dir where I extracted the new drivers.

It seems to work fine, except that when I get the desktop the system freezes with the hourglass cursor, or sometimes, the system just keeps the hourglass cursor and when I try to ctrl alt delete, it hangs.

Any ideas?

I downloaded the latest reference drivers from this page:
http://www.falconfly.de/voodoo2.htm

As for my pci bios options, the only thing I have found is the primary vid card option, which is set to AGP. I will check for others.

Thanks

just install the 3dfx cards manually via Hardwar device manager

I did succeed with my X800XT PE AGP and Voodoo5 5500 PCI Combo also

check:


here the X800XT PE AGP as Primary:


and here the Voodoo5 5500 PCI as primary sellected:


that was done on this system, Dual OpteronDP 244 CG


So what you do is not that hard at all, just download the latest driver aka FastVoodoo2 ver 4.6:
http://www.3dfxzone.it/dir/3dfx/voodoo2/downloads/fv2_4.6_9x/index.htm

and install the driver manually via Device Manager Then your problem should be solved.

May The Force Be With You...Always,

Ben Kenobi.

that is also an obvious ideea of do'n it   anyway maybe I explained it too shortly...woops

Anyways, roughly the same idea

These are alot of questions, I'll try to answer them step by step

If I wanted to try this again, would I have to turn off 'Fast Write' ?

Fast Writes is an AGP-specific performance Option, therefor  it will affect only your AGP Card (Radeon). It is known to cause severe problems on some Systems (e.g. many AthlonXP owners have to turn it off to ensure stability).
Technically, this will not affect your 3dfx PCI Card at all, so enable it if you can, disable if your Radeon/System becomes unstable .

I don't know how to disable 3d. I do know that the Voodoo 1 works with 2d cards, not 3d, unless there is some way to disable 3d?

Actually the Voodoo can work just as fine with 3D Cards as well, but it will always (with the exception of Glide which the Radeon doesn't support) remain the secondary 3D Adapter. Thus, it would never be used unless specifically enabled from within the Game Options (if such an option is available, that is)

There are a couple of older Utilities to address this Problem (at least for Direct3D) floating around, but they haven't been updated in a long time and likely are not tested on modern Systems (should still work though).

Also, would I be getting the speed of a ATI 8500 or a ATI 9800 Pro? because I know the voodoo 1 is a video acelerator, but since you can't acelerate something faster it should run at 229Mhz or 380Mhz right? Also my current system has a 16x PCI slot.

The 3dfx Card will not speed up your Radeon nor the way around. Both will still run unchanged at their specifications.
The term "accelerator" was born at times where there were only 2D Cards in use. As soon as the 3dfx Card takes over, it will 'accelerate' 3D, while the Primary Adapter is basically not used at all anymore.
You have to select which 3D Adapter to use and consequently will get the normal performance and features of that specific Adapter alone.