Newer software updates for 3dfx cards under MS Windows 32 bit platforms are available to download in our common files section. These interest 3dfx Banshee, Velocity, Voodoo3, Voodoo4 and Voodoo5 owners running Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP OSes. At this time 3dfx Voodoo2 adapters are supported in DOS and Linux environments only. Please post your  feedbacks to our message board located at this link.


This new graphics library is OpenGL 1.3 compliant and supports 3dfx Voodoo Banshee, Velocity 100/200, Voodoo3, Voodoo4, Voodoo5 boards. MesaFX 5.1 works fine with Amigamerlin drivers series allowing a better execution of OpenGL 1.3 recent games, like Call of Duty. Besides, running older titles, like Quake 3 Arena, MOHAA, Serious Sam The Second Encounter, you can get both higher frame rates and better hardware performance with 32bit of color depth (this one by cards with VSA-100 chip-sets only).


Install procedure is simple and fast, it has these following steps:
-Unzipping the archive named
-Copying file named in Windows/System32 folder (MS Windows XP users)
-Copying file named in Winnt/System32 folder (MS Windows 2000 users)
-Copying file named in Windows/System folder (MS Windows 9X / ME users)
-Copying file named in game folder


Mesa is a 3-D graphics library with an API which is very similar to that of OpenGL. To the extent that Mesa utilizes the OpenGL command syntax or state machine, it is being used with authorization from Silicon Graphics, Inc.(SGI). However, the author does not possess an OpenGL license from SGI, and makes no claim that Mesa is in any way a compatible replacement for OpenGL or associated with SGI. Those who want a licensed implementation of OpenGL should contact a licensed vendor. We heartly thank the whole development team made up of these men: David Bucciarelli, Daryll Strauss, Keith Whitwell, Daniel Borca, Hiroshi Morii. And of course, Kudos to , sine qua non.

Useful links
Mesa3D Web Site
MesaFX 0.51 download at 3dfxzone.it
Official topic about MesaFX 0.5.1
Screenshots of Call of Duty with MESA 0.51 and 3dfx Voodoo5 5500
Screenshots of Wolfestain Enemy Territory with MesaFX 0.51 and Voodoo5 5500
Updated device drivers for 3dfx video cards
Users Support

MesaFx is great.  

This is the only minor thing I couldn't figure out about MesaFx. Why won't it run in a window? When the OpenGl app is set to run in a window Mesa runs it in full screen instead.  Also when an app is set to run in full Screen it does so but the image appears to be zoomed in on and quite off center.

Great work dborca, it makes a real good substitute,

PS: I noticed that the included glide3x.dll says "beta do not distribute": Oops  

ok, that's why quake3 is too dark and the gamma slide has no effect?  

this driver works great in call of duty
it can lauch ut2k3 in opengl mode too (that's not possible with wickedgl or default ICD)
but many textures are black (same bug I had with the old "koolsmoky's  alternate opengl" in counterstrike)

this is great anyway, ultimately it could allow to play ut2k3 on voodoo2  8) (maybe it runs under linux?)

but mesafx 5.1 won't be the last version, somebody told me..