I have a Voodoo 3 3000D video card and have installed Amiga Sport 3.0 as the 3dfx drivers and MesaFX 0.6.1.9 (the lastest version as of 8/21/04) and am trying to start up Doom 3 and I get a MesaFX error file in my Doom3 directory which states this:

wglChoosePixelFormat failed
     nSize           = 40
     nVersion        = 1
     dwFlags         = 39
     iPixelType      = 0
     cColorBits      = 32
     cRedBits        = 0
     cRedShift       = 0
     cGreenBits      = 0
     cGreenShift     = 0
     cBlueBits       = 0
     cBlueShift      = 0
     cAlphaBits      = 8
     cAlphaShift     = 0
     cAccumBits      = 0
     cAccumRedBits   = 0
     cAccumGreenBits = 0
     cAccumBlueBits  = 0
     cAccumAlphaBits = 0
     cDepthBits      = 24
     cStencilBits    = 8
     cAuxBuffers     = 0
     iLayerType      = 0
     bReserved       = 0
     dwLayerMask     = 0
     dwVisibleMask   = 0
     dwDamageMask    = 0

I looked up the dwflags on the web and it seems to indicate that I have PFD_DOUBLEBUFER (0X01), PFD_DRAW_TO_BITMAP (0X08), PFD_SUPPORT_GDI(0X10) AND PFD_SUPPORT_OPENGL (0X20), for a total of 39 hexadecimal. I am running 32-bit color. Does anybody have any idea what's going wrong?
::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)TIA.

clarkbt36
                 PFD_DOUBLEBUFFER            =0x00000001,
     PFD_STEREO                  =0x00000002,
                 PFD_DRAW_TO_WINDOW          =0x00000004,
                 PFD_DRAW_TO_BITMAP          =0x00000008,
                 PFD_SUPPORT_GDI             =0x00000010,
                 PFD_SUPPORT_OPENGL          =0x00000020,
                 PFD_GENERIC_FORMAT          =0x00000040,
                 PFD_NEED_PALETTE            =0x00000080,
                 PFD_NEED_SYSTEM_PALETTE     =0x00000100,
                 PFD_SWAP_EXCHANGE           =0x00000200,
                 PFD_SWAP_COPY               =0x00000400,
                 PFD_SWAP_LAYER_BUFFERS      =0x00000800,
                 PFD_GENERIC_ACCELERATED    =0x00001000,
                 PFD_SUPPORT_DIRECTDRAW      =0x00002000,

@clarkbt36,

Your efforts are most likely futile, voodoo 3's have no 32 bit rendering capabilities. This feature was introduced in the latter VSA based cards.

Your next obstacle would be the limitation of only having 16 mb of ram on most models (not near enough the minimum 64 mb required to run the game)

Sorry but I believe this to be next to impossible  :'(

Do you think a Vodoo 5500 AGP card would do the trick? The specs say it has 2 VSA chips and contains 64 MB of VRAM.

@clarkbt36,

Once again I just could not recomend it, even this "once mighty" card just does'nt have the required features and fillrate to create an enjoyable gaming experience on such a demanding new game  :'(

wrote on 23.08.04 at 03:37:27:

@clarkbt36, Once again I just could not recomend it, even this "once mighty" card just does'nt have the required features and fillrate to create an enjoyable gaming experience on such a demanding new game  :'(

Not to feel bad, a bunch of once mighty cards made long after the V-5500 don't either ;-)

Voodoo5 has the fillrate (for low res anyway), but lacks the features and the power for DOOM3

clarkbt, set ColorBits to 16 inyour DoomConfig.cfg and report reaults! I have a V3  :P but don't have the game ;)

@ gdonovan,

Amen brother, my 5500 has been probably one of my greatest/most used computer components, it's been in 3 upgraded systems now and has given me hundred's if not thousand's of hours of gaming pleasure  ;D

It's really to bad that 3dfx went down the tubes, they made great cards  ;)

Sorry Guys, I know this is a 3dfx forum, but I'm getting useful answers here. Can anybody say wheter an ATI Radeon 9800 with 128MB VRAM would do the trick?

TIA

@clarkbt36 - Indeed it would do the trick! ;D

I own a Radeon 9700Pro 128MB which is similar and DOOM 3 runs quite nicely in HIGH detail 800x600 res. 8)

Oh and the V5500 will RUN the game, but only JUST... :P

See THIS thread for how to run DOOM 3 on a V5500 (but only if you want to see it RUN, not for playing it! Best stick with the Radeon for serious DOOM 3 gaming...) ::)

Link ;): -

http://www.falconfly-central.de/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=news;action=display;num=1093096264

Nuff said! 8)