Which make of 12Mb Voodoo 2?

I have decided that a 12 MbVoodoo2 is best choice for me (PII 233, 64 Mb) -I want to play CMR, F1RS, GPL, TOCA, TOCA2 and any future games that my system can still handle! I admit I am already out of my depth, but are all makes of card the same - they all use the same chip, but reading posts some have better driver support than others. Can someone recommend a card manufacturer please. The money is burning a hole in my pocket, so if you can also give me a supplier and price in the UK, i will order today! Please dont suggest an alternative type of card unless it will work with all the above and cost around 90 and give the same or better performance (its taken me ages to decide on the V2 :-). TIA, and apologies for slight off-topicness! Rick

Anything but the STB Blackmagic. I got three of them and no driver updates for months. Pathetic really when 3dfx own STB!

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> I have decided that a 12 MbVoodoo2 is best choice for me (PII 233, 64 > Mb) -I want to play CMR, F1RS, GPL, TOCA, TOCA2 and any future games > that my system can still handle! I admit I am already out of my depth, > but are all makes of card the same - they all use the same chip, but > reading posts some have better driver support than others. Can someone > recommend a card manufacturer please. The money is burning a hole in my > pocket, so if you can also give me a supplier and price in the UK, i > will order today! Please dont suggest an alternative type of card unless > it will work with all the above and cost around 90 and give the same or > better performance (its taken me ages to decide on the V2 :-). > TIA, and apologies for slight off-topicness! > Rick

A recent acquisition... I have owned a number of STB cards and liked every single one of them. That said, I got every single one of them direct from STB for press preview ;) M

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>Anything but the STB Blackmagic. I got three of them and no driver updates >for months. Pathetic really when 3dfx own STB! >> I have decided that a 12 MbVoodoo2 is best choice for me (PII 233, 64 >> Mb) -I want to play CMR, F1RS, GPL, TOCA, TOCA2 and any future games >> that my system can still handle! I admit I am already out of my depth, >> but are all makes of card the same - they all use the same chip, but >> reading posts some have better driver support than others. Can someone >> recommend a card manufacturer please. The money is burning a hole in my >> pocket, so if you can also give me a supplier and price in the UK, i >> will order today! Please dont suggest an alternative type of card unless >> it will work with all the above and cost around 90 and give the same or >> better performance (its taken me ages to decide on the V2 :-). >> TIA, and apologies for slight off-topicness! >> Rick

Aside from the Canopus Pure 3D 2, all Voodoo2's are basically the same card as they conform to the "reference" design from 3dfx. The only difference between the cards is the drivers. I can tell you from experience that the driver support from Canopus is very poor, they rarely release new drivers. Diamond and Creative have good drivers and have released updated drivers whenever 3dfx released a new reference driver. The Metabyte Wicked3D probably offers the best drivers of all Voodoo2 cards and are very good with updates. One thing I like about the Wicked3D is that you can SLI it with any Voodoo2 card on the market, and you can also run a single card at resolutions up to 1024x672. Their SLI support also offers higher resolution than any other cards, running up to 1024x1024. I foolishly purchased a Pure3D2 based on their Voodoo1 product and have really regretted it due to their lack of driver updates. On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 09:01:02 +0100, Rick Gower

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>I have decided that a 12 MbVoodoo2 is best choice for me (PII 233, 64 >Mb) -I want to play CMR, F1RS, GPL, TOCA, TOCA2 and any future games >that my system can still handle! I admit I am already out of my depth, >but are all makes of card the same - they all use the same chip, but >reading posts some have better driver support than others. Can someone >recommend a card manufacturer please. The money is burning a hole in my >pocket, so if you can also give me a supplier and price in the UK, i >will order today! Please dont suggest an alternative type of card unless >it will work with all the above and cost around 90 and give the same or >better performance (its taken me ages to decide on the V2 :-). >TIA, and apologies for slight off-topicness! >Rick

3dfx has bought STB--and are now selling V2 12 meg cards as the V2 1000--for around $99 US here in Texas at Best Buy.

Be nice if they produced new drivers for the already exisiting STB 12MB Voodoo2 Blackmagic. So far their support has been pathetic. > 3dfx has bought STB--and are now selling V2 12 meg cards as the V2 > 1000--for around $99 US here in Texas at Best Buy.

> Anything but the STB Blackmagic. I got three of them and no driver updates > for months. Pathetic really when 3dfx own STB! My guess is that STB/3dfx has put the vast majority of their resources in the Voodoo3 project. I personally own a Diamond Monster 2 and am pretty happy with it, but I hope to upgrade to a Voodoo3 3000 in the very near future. Dave Ewing

I dl'd the drivers for my Black Magic when I got it. Haven't had a need for newer drivers yet.....YET. Other than that it works great.

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>Be nice if they produced new drivers for the already exisiting STB 12MB >Voodoo2 Blackmagic. So far their support has been pathetic. >> 3dfx has bought STB--and are now selling V2 12 meg cards as the V2 >> 1000--for around $99 US here in Texas at Best Buy.

It's not compatability you need newer drivers for, although the orginal one only supported Direct X 5 extensions, but PERFORMANCE. THe 3dfx reference drivers are far better then the STB originals. Diamond etc have produce even better drivers based on the reference drivers. Thhi si what you expect. STB haven;t done this and it's simply not good enough.

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> I dl'd the drivers for my Black Magic when I got it. Haven't had a > need for newer drivers yet.....YET. Other than that it works great. > >Be nice if they produced new drivers for the already exisiting STB 12MB > >Voodoo2 Blackmagic. So far their support has been pathetic. > >> 3dfx has bought STB--and are now selling V2 12 meg cards as the V2 > >> 1000--for around $99 US here in Texas at Best Buy.

There is a new "beta"set of detonator drivers*** around. Downloaded em but haven't tried them yet. Mights make a differenct with SCGT.

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> >It's not compatability you need newer drivers for, although the orginal one > >only supported Direct X 5 extensions, but PERFORMANCE. THe 3dfx reference > >drivers are far better then the STB originals. > Mark I want to thank you for pointing me to the 3dFX page for the > reference drivers. You were absolutely correct!!!. THey made a world > of difference in GPL. Not much change in SCGT though. GPL maintained > 36 frames with 15 cars and all the graphics turned on during a race > (only dropped a bit at the start). NEVER did that before. Might try > 19 next time. > Thanks again > Fool Xtent