VooDoo 3 question

I'm about to upgrade from an ATI XPERT 98 PCI / VooDoo 2 combo to a VooDoo 3 AGP board. Is it worth buying the 3000 versus the 2000 and why ? Also, should I be aware of driver problems encountered by some has I've seen a few posts about them but did not pay much attention to. Should I download drivers from somewhere ? Thanks in advance. Robert =:-D

Robert good choice, I upgraded from the same setup 3 weeks ago. You can use the newest drivers 2.56 dated 5/12 from 3 dfx. Also limit texture to 2 mb and it will run fine. Tony

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> I'm about to upgrade from an ATI XPERT 98 PCI / VooDoo 2 combo to a VooDoo 3 > AGP board. > Is it worth buying the 3000 versus the 2000 and why ? > Also, should I be aware of driver problems encountered by some has I've seen > a few posts about them but did not pay much attention to. Should I download > drivers from somewhere ? > Thanks in advance. > Robert > =:-D

Why limit texture to 2 MB? Is there any significant difference in performance? What's the limit by default ? Tuffe Robert good choice, I upgraded from the same setup 3 weeks ago.

I got the 2000, because I don't need that TV-thingies. If you want the 3000-speed, just overclock to 166MHz, works fine. Cannot tell you about upgrading from a voodoo2, but upgrading from Voodoo 1 is worthwhile definitely. I use the CD-drivers (texture limited to 2MB for GPL). The banshee-fix gives me problems in GPL (Pic-size) and the 3DFX-update (quake) forces stutter in MGPRS2 Jens --------------------------------------------- Remove "NOSPAM" before using my email-address

Having got a "2" I looked at the "3" 3000. But there is a 3500 - 40000 just around the corner. Take a look at the Diamond TNT Viper 770 Ultra AGP. I did and guess what ?. Its great.............. -- Tony Starbuck www: http://starbuk.demon.co.uk

If you want a great card get the Matrox G400 Max. It's the best card out there. Period. IFLY4DELTA *********************************************************** "Hope is a good thing - probably the best of things, and good things never die. " Andy Dufresne The Shawshank Redemption *********************************************************** > >I'm about to upgrade from an ATI XPERT 98 PCI / VooDoo 2 combo to a VooDoo 3 > >AGP board. > >Is it worth buying the 3000 versus the 2000 and why ? > >Also, should I be aware of driver problems encountered by some has I've seen > >a few posts about them but did not pay much attention to. Should I download

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> >drivers from somewhere ? > >Thanks in advance. > >Robert > >=:-D > Having got a "2" I looked at the "3" 3000. But there is a 3500 - 40000 > just around the corner. Take a look at the Diamond TNT Viper 770 Ultra > AGP. I did and guess what ?. > Its great.............. > -- > Tony Starbuck > www: http://starbuk.demon.co.uk

If you want to race GPL, the best choice is any V3 (the 2000 will do fine). Don't be fooled by the specs suggesting another card may be better or have more features.. GPL only has decent support for GLIDE and Rendition cards, The V3 is the fastest GLIDE card. This is the case with nearly every other sim/game out there and the V3-2000 is great value for money. But of course, if you want to have the "best-in-theory-but-isn't-supported-and-therefore-I-have-loads-of-problems-and-ask other-people-to-help-me-out"-card then you should avoid the V3 ;o)

Um....yes, a Voodoo3 (if you have the CPU for it) probably is the best card for GPL. However, there ARE (no fooling) cards with better specs, and more and better features. Um, what?! V3 is not the fastest card for every other sim/game out there. :? For those with GLIDE only 3D hardware acceleration, yes. Those with D3D or OpenGL support in addition or only, hell no. "best-in-theory-but-isn't-supported-and-therefore-I-have-loads-of-problems-a nd-ask Mms...there are problems with the V3 that have to have worked around...nothing is prefect. :?