Hi all,
I've just bought a Voodoo 2 off a friend.
Unfortunately he couldn't get the user manual that came with it.
I couldn't get the original Voodoo 2 card user manual on the net, only stumbled to the chipset manual (I think from this site).

Anyone here can point me to a copy of the user manual ?
Also, I don't know anything about this card, especialy what is it good for. Someone having experience with this card please enlighten me.

Thank you.

I received just the bare card off him, no drivers, no manuals.

It seems to me this card was manufactured by 3dfx, it has Voodoo2 3Dfx Ver:2.0 printed in the middle of the board, and a sticker on the back that says: VD203P 98c50 0000042.

I'm looking specifically for the actual card (user) level manual as opposed to the chipset level manual/datasheet.

BTW, what is Voodoo2 1000 ?  Were the Voodoo 2 produced in separate series ?

Somewhere along the FAQ, it says that V2 only supports full screen 3D, is this set in concrete ?

On the other hand, it also mentions that it is not necessary to pass the VGA signal through the V2. Does it mean that I can have a "semi dual head", with one monitor handles the VGA output and the other one deals exclusively with 3D graphics ?

Also, how is its playability with modern games ?
And what's the general opinion on the following:
Compared to an Intel Extreme Graphics (speed and quality wise) ?
Compared to modern ATI and nVidia cards (quality only) ?

I also got the impression that 3Dfx users are personally attached to their products from the 3dfx sites around.
If you are included in this category, would you share your opinion/experience with us ?

Thank you.

Response only to the 3 questions above:
1. You can't play most of the newer games (UT 2003 and GTA3) and others, in general any 2000 and above year game will have problems running, if it will at all.

2.Better than a Intel Extreme in quality (at least for the Glide, and older D3d games. OpenGL is not fully compatible for V2). In speed, Intel Extreme is a much faster, due to the faster geometrical engine.

3.In quality, the V2 would bring a much better visual output (overall) in games such as Unreal Tournament and NFS (3,4,5) and Quake, even if the textures are bigger than 256x256 and can be handled with a greater visual output by the Intel Extreme and most of the other cards. But we are talking about Overall quality. In that case, with all the limitations, V2 can still beat some other cards.
The V2 and the other Voodoo's shows the best 16 bit color you can get today, unable to use 32bit color in graphics, the V2 is not really beaten in quality, since the "Overlay" filter is showing nearly a 24bit color quality in games (which in fact is used by most of the so-called 32bit color games out there...).
Chainlinking 2 V2's you get twice the speed...

as for the V2 1000 question from JujuBug, all the voodoo series cards except the voodoo1,banshee(i think) and rush had these similar numbers, i.e. v2 1000, v3 2000, 3000, or 3500, v4 4500, and v5 5500 are the most common ones. gateway made a v3 1000, and some other exceptions were made, but that's the meaning of that number. theoretically, as the numbers got higher, the cards got better, but voodoo 2 fans know better

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BTW, what is Voodoo2 1000 ?  Were the Voodoo 2 produced in separate series ?

Voodoo 2 1000 was the voodoo2 that 3dfx brought out again after they merged with STB. In fact, it was the STB Voodoo2 card that STB used the manufacture before the merger; it has the same layout, which differs from all other Voodoo 2's...

Patience: Somehow I can't find this Atrend manual in the archive. BTW, how/where do you know it is manufactured by Atrend ?

Lecram25: Is there any functional/spec. difference between these V2 "1000" and the "normal" ones ?