Voodoo and Geforce in the same system?

[Ronin 0]

Is there anyone successfully using a Voodoo 2 card and a Geforce card in the same box under W2K? I was thinking if I could get my hands on a Voodoo 2 card I could play Diablo II and some other games under W2K. Or is there way for a Voodoo 3 and a Geforce to coexist in the same system, because I have one of them laying arounf collecting dust.

 

Any thoughts?

 

 

 

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My Windows 2000 System:

 

Dual Intel 850's

Tyan Thunder 2400 MB

512 Megs Ram

Adaptec 39160 Ultra 160

1 - 18 Gig Cheetah - U160

2 - 18 Gig Cheetah U2W

SB Live Platinum

Plextor 12/4/32 - Burner

Plextor 40x UW CD-Rom

10x Sony DVD Drive

Hercules Geforce 2 64meg

Viewsonic PF815 22" Monitor

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My Win ME System:

 

PIII 733

Asus P3C4X MB

256 Megs PC133 Mem

Adaptec U2W Scsi Card

1 - 9 Gig Cheetah 10K

48x IDE CD-Rom

CL Geforce DDR

ESS 1371 Sound Card

[Preacher 0]

I know exactly what you mean

 

OK, since your AGP slot is already used by your GeForce you´ll need a PCI voodoo board. (what am I typing here?! Of course you know _that_!)

Yes, it is possible, I´ve got a GeForce and a Voodoo 2 running together in perfect harmony in my system. For the Voodoo 2 however, don´t use 3DFX´s W2k drivers but use the modified NT drivers which are version 3.03 and should be found on www.reactorcritical.com . So, why´s that? Simple, the 3DFX drivers will make your Voodoo 2 board another primary video device with which I´ve not been able to get pictures on my screen. The modified NT drivers however are working flawlessly, tradeoff is they don´t support D3D... ... hmm, what if one imports the D3D registry settings from W9x? Interesting question, gotta check it out for myself. Don´t know how it would work with a Voodoo 3, sorry.

 

If you can´t find the specified drivers, send an e-mail to:

Preacher.@gmx.net (Yeah, that´s a dot after "Preacher" )

or ICQ me:

17705556

 

If you choose to ICQ me, on requesting authorization please give me a quick hint so I know who you are. Too many spammers at the moment

 

[This message has been edited by Preacher (edited 05 July 2000).]

[Ronin 0]

Well it worked. Adding that old V2 card makes life much better when playing Diablo II. I would suggest to anyone, if you have an old V2 laying around slap it your box it will come in handy.

 

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[FrogMaster 0]

HI!

I have also a pair of Voodoo2s laying around and think about giving them a last chance to run UT in SLI glide, which should be great.

Which drivers are you using? The nt4 set modified by 3dfx themselves or the so-called "hacked" one. Both are available at reactorcritical'site.

THX

[Ronin 0]

Preacher e-mailed me some drivers to use and they are working fine. I did however update to the latest 3DFX drivers without any problems. It's so nice to see Diablo II the way it should be.

 

 

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[Dragon-Lord 0]

Since D2 only runs in D2D mode, and a slightly enhanced D3D mode, what is the big difference? I have a geforce DDR and some v2 sli boards sitting on a shelf. Why would I want to run D2 in glide over my geforce? Enlighten me please? :}

[Ronin 0]

You may not want to run your V2, but for me I had no choice since I was having a problem running my Geforce 2 64meg card. Since D2 supports glide and I had one of the cards sitting around not doing anything I gave it a try. The graphics are much better since I could not get D2 to work at all with my GF2 and W2K.

 

 

That's a good enough reason for me.

 

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[Dragon-Lord 0]

Thanks! I had heard the gf2 drivers were still unbaked. glad to see you found a solution. :}

[Preacher 0]

Ronin

 

the 3DFX V2 drivers worked for you??? How did you handle the board being installed as secondary video device? I tried tampering with the multi monitor settings which were then available but that was not successful. No video if using glide with these drivers.

[Ronin 0]

I used the drivers you sent me to install the board, then after things where working I figuired i would try to upgrade to the new drivers. Once I did and rebooted my system there where no problems at all. It's installed under Sound,Video and Game Controllers. I installed a second board last night so now I have SLI. Not that is will help with D2 but I had one so I installed it.

 

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