I cant take any in-game screenshots with my voodoo card...Is there any programs that will help this situation...Im trying to take screenshots of verbal abuse as well as cheaters in game to send to their CO's...but all I get is a muffled screen...


Also a friend is giving me a voodoo 5, but has a fan out...can it be replaced? and with what ?and where do I get such an animal?...lol

If hypersnap somehow dont work try FRAPS. My personal favourite.

If there's no overclocking and the case isn't an oven inside you can take the other fan off, it's not required. 3dfx themselves said that the VSA-100 chips were on the border of requiring active cooling.

It also reduces noise. Those fans make one hell of a noise.

I myself modded my V5 5500 to have Zalman ZM-NB32J heatsinks.

@Hammer,

Congratulations on your acquiring a 5500, will make a nice upgrade fom your voodoo 3 

Have to disagreee with NitroX infinity, my experience (have 2 agp's and 1 pci)  and reading about 5500's is that they run hot, they did a terrible job of applying a low quality thermal adhesive at manufacturing. On all 3 (6 gpu's) of my cards there was just a glob of compound in the middle, maybe giving 50 - 60% total surface area contact between the heatsinks and gpu's, also the adhesive was discoloured (dark brown) showing signs of over heating 

If you wanted to mod from the factory set-up to a similar set-up such as NitroX infinity's (high quality heatsink and a properly applied thermal adhesive) you'd be fine, but you should check the adhesive when you  get the card and ensure that there's a high percentage of surface area contact, and as I previously stated, check for adhesive discolouration. If you observe these conditions I would not recomend playing games without having both fans functional.

@NitroX infinity,

Not trying provoke an arguement about this but the applied epoxy on my card's were with out a doubt  burnt and charred, not just some minor discolouration.

Using the original 3dfx set-up and Tweakmonster ramsinks, this card would lock up (from heat) at around 180 mhz, there was no evidence of any visual image corruption indicating reaching the limits of the Hyundai ram.

After modding the card as I have previously stated, I can now overclock to 196mhz, thus proving that better/superior gpu cooling allowed for this 16 mhz improvement 

I have read dozens of article's on overclocking VSA-100's, all stating that these chips run hot. If as you stated earlier, these chips were running cool, you would have to assume that 3dfx would have taken advantage of this gpu headroom and released the VSA-100 based cards at higher clock and mem. speeds thus improving fillrate. Remember, 3dfx desperately needed to retake the performance crown from Nvidia at this time, with the hopes of regaining lost sales and prestige. History (3dfx's demise) has proven that they were somehow incapable of this.

Although even to this day I am still an avid 3dfx fan, I realized long ago that 3dfx is solely to blame for their fate, missing key product release deadlines and milking the Voodoo architecture for all it was worth was the beginning of the end 

@VDX,

With out at least having the heatsinks still on (some basic form of protection from generated heat), let alone not having functional fans, I'd be willing to bet the farm that a VSA-100 based card would'nt last more than a minute or two before one of the gpu's exploded after starting up a game.

I personally was never really that upset about Nvidia acquiring 3dfx, it's the nature of the beast in the business world. What really pissed me off was that Nvidia decided not to offer any driver support what so ever to myself (I had a 4 month old $380 card) and other 3dfx card owners (back in late 2000 this would have been a substantial number of owners), it was literally like a slap in the face to the 3dfx fans/card owners around the world.

Because Nvidia's Management decided to take this position on 3dfx driver support, I personally have decided to take the stance that I will never spend a penny on an Nvidia based product "ever". Back in Febuary of this year I decided it was time to replace my beloved 5500 with a newer system and video card to be prepared for the impending release's of Doom 3, Halflife 2 and the new wave of games that I'm sure will be unplayable on my 5500. I decided to put my money were my mouth was and purchased a Radeon 9800 pro, so far I have been extremely pleased with it's performance and fantastic image quality 

F@ck Nvidia !


@NitroX infinity,

Sorry, I forgot to mention in my previous post that I think your mod is an excellent idea for reducing fan noise and still offering very acceptable cooling for the card, I just believe these stock cards run on the hot side, so please do not take any offence to my opinions or statements. Us remaining 3dfx folk need to stick together "were a dieing breed", Kind of like the last of the Mohicans Eh.

Quote:

Don't forget the action nVidia had afterwards;
give us your 3dfx card and you'll get a $10 discount on any new nVidia card

Hm, make sure you enable the "Capture -> Enable Special Capture (DirectX/Glide)" Option hidden in the advanced capturing Options Menu of HypersnapDX.

Otherwise it likely won't work, and the Results will be unusable.

(don't know why, but this Option isn't enabled by default)