Updated 3DFX Driver Released – yes, 3DFX

The nostalgists at 3DFX Zone have cobbled together a new video driver that supports Voodoo3 and newer cards on Win2K and XP 32 & 64-bit OSes. Sorry, no Vista support. If you’re still messing around with Voodoo cards, check this driver out. I still have fond memories of gaming on my 1st SLI rig with dual Voodoo2 12mb cards.

After 1.4 release, it's time of new SFFT 1.5 driver. This software is based on Unified Architecture supporting by one package all Voodoo3 family, including Voodoo3 2000, Voodoo3 3000 and Voodoo3 3500 cards, as well as all 3dfx VSA-100 products and so Voodoo4 4500, Voodoo5 5500 and Voodoo5 6000 cards, is on line.

This post reminds me of the VooDoo 2 SLI running Doom 3.

3Dfx, how I miss thee!

yup memories,

world of a difference, they made, now its all about same old stuff, just faster

same here "3Dfx, how I miss thee!"

sam

3DFX was always thinking outside of the box. There were so many firsts and incredible innovations by this company. Those were some very exciting times in the 3D and gaming world.

I third the motion: "3DFX, how I miss thee!"

GL Quake...drools!!! (of course with flashblend and polyblend turned off)

hmmm..actually have an old voodoo 3 3000 card somewhere around here....might need to build a glide machine.

I think this article begs the question; Why?

Originally Posted by Loop2kil

GL Quake...drools!!!

The reason I bought the Diamond Monster 3D Voodoo card and still have it. That whole period in gaming (1997, 1998) was great.

Originally Posted by Dekoth

I think this article begs the question; Why?

For gamers still running them on older boxes. I wish someone would make some new drivers for the Aureal sound cards. My Monster Sound MX300 kicked ass for 3D audio.

Originally Posted by Dekoth

I think this article begs the question; Why?

a lot of hard core gamers still like to play older games....and some games just work better with the equipment that it was designed to work with in the first place.

There was a guy in the FS/FT forum looking for an old AT style case because he was putting together and old 200mhz computer exclusively to play DOS games...not my cup of tea but whatever floats his boat

Originally Posted by dark_reign

The reason I bought the Diamond Monster 3D Voodoo card and still have it. That whole period in gaming (1997, 1998) was great.

yep, i still remember getting my cherry broke playing games online for the first time...Quake 1 and playing on Mplayer. I really only liked the episode 1 maps...slipgate was my favorite.

Originally Posted by Dekoth

I think this article begs the question; Why?

Why not?

Great!

I've still got a Voodoo 3 3000 card. I've got it running in my W2K garage box with an Athlon 1.4 GHZ, 1 gig of old RAM and an 80 gig HD. Runs my old games great and provides excellent desk top image quality. Surf the web, plays my mp3's, Quake when I'm tired of wrenching. What's not to like? The V3 3K was one of the best cards I ever purchased.

Go Voodoo!

God I miss my Diamond Monster II Voodoo 2 8meg.

Originally Posted by ICOM

The V3 3K was one of the best cards I ever purchased.

QFTMFT

I still keep my old P2 @ 300mhz w/ 512mb RAM, and SLIed 12MB V2's for playing Quake 2. It's the perfect setup for playing those older games.

Originally Posted by Wenglish

QFTMFT

Quake 3 and 1600 x 1200 first time ever !!!!

Wow... I will have to say this does bring back memories from the good old days. Quake2 still plays better on a V2 SLI rig than anything else...just at a lower res.

Nice.

Nice. Bummer they are not around anymore

Sweet.. too bad the new driver doesn't support Win9X.... my retro rig has a Voodoo 5-5500 in it with Windows 98 SE.

No need to have W2K or XP drivers for the Voodoo cards.. no DOS support. And the games that need W2K or XP to run work fine on newer hardware.

Originally Posted by Freezebyte

God I miss my Diamond Monster II Voodoo 2 8meg.

As soon as I came home from the Pomona computer show, they released the 12meg version later that week. which meant of course I was immediately DOWN 8meg when I wet to SLI them