Hi all the past week I have been stmbling around with my 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 armed PC's.
And something odd happened on all three here are the setups I used with win2K Pro + SP4 & WinXP Pro + SP3:
Dual Pentium!!!/EB 1000
ABiT VP6
4x 256MB PC-133 Micron Crucial
3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI with PC Bios 1.11
Creative SB Audigy2 Platinum
AthlonXP 2700+
EPoX EP-8K3A+
3x 512MB PC3200 CL2 Kingston HyperX @ PC-2700
3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP with PC Bios 1.06
Creative SB Audigy2 Platinum
Dual OpteronDP 248 CG
MSI MS-9130 K8T Master2-FAR
2x 1024MB PC-3200 ECC Reg. CL2.5 Kingston value Ram
3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI Macintosh flashed with PC Bios 1.11_DVI beta
Creative SB Audigy2 Platinum eX
With all three different setups I used the following drivers:
AmigaMerlin 3.1 R1
AmigaMerlin 3.1 R11
and here comes the weirdest part:
When playing StarWars X-Wing Alliance + DarkSaber's Ultimate Craft Pack 1.1 with the Mission Update and StarWars Racer 1.0 I get these symptoms with all three 3dfx setups:
When using FSAA x4 the system do's as if it is loading the application but after some time it hangs so I have to do a warm reboot and after the warm reboot the system is back to normal. with the FSAA x2 mode and no FSAA ode as single chip the applications run without graphical problems.
under WinXP pro + SP3 & SP2 I get massive sound errors in racer, but XWA had not sound problems, under Wins@ these problems didn't occur.
are there others that are experiencing the same symptoms? why doesn't FSAA x4 work woth these games since it's only a hardware option that does work with 98SE with these titles as it also works with Hank Semenec's Fire 6 demo as Q3A as UT GOTYE 1999 under 2K as XP...
anyways it remains an odd experience I never encountered because I never ran these games with 3dfx cards with such setups as operating systems untill the past week, I hope some of you have some ways of solving this at the least for Win2K.