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,

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.

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

@ 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 

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

@clarkbt36 - Indeed it would do the trick!

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...

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;n...

Nuff said! 8)