Hello, WIndows Xp is giving me a little bugger again. All games seem to be unstable. Sometimes the screen will become transparent and I can see my desk top flickering. When I click I alter the desktop not the game or App I am currently running. This is very irritating. It also does not recognize the VooDoo 4500 Open GL in Half-Life. Which is wierd because D3D is recognized. Also, when in device manager it references my card as a VooDoo 4. WHen I hit properties it says that the system resource it is using is PCI rather than the AGP that it is using. This may be an important clue. I have tryed downloading fixes and full drivers Xp, but there seem to be no original drivers from 3dfx for my card for Xp specifically. All of this wouldn't happen if Xp would accept my damn drivers disk! If you know of any non-3rdparty drivers for my card. Or know of a seperate issue regaurding the problem please reply. Thank You, Matt

Unfortunately there is no official support for 3dfx cards under Windows XP. I tried using 3rd party drivers for my older voodoo card for a while, but I finally gave up and upgraded to a Radeon.

jim - out of curiosity, which radeon do you have? i just ordered the 7500 - i have voodoo 3 now. i am hoping i made a good move. running win xp pro on a p3 500 mhz.

should have ordered an nvidia chipset for gaming rather than the ati...btw, what are your system specs?

I have the original 32MB DDR version; I think they call it the 7200 now. It is still a great card, but unless you are really on a budget I would go with either the 7500 or the top of the line 8500. The 7500 uses the same core as mine but it's clocked faster, and the 8500 uses an all new core and some new features. They are all great cards though; good image quality, hardware DVD decoding, and it's the most stable card I've ever had. Their driver support could use some improvement but I've had no problems myself. If you want the fastest card there is I think nVidia holds that crown for the moment, but personally I think ATI cards are better quality and they have better support more multimedia features like DVD.

http://ansible.homeip.net:8080/tutorials/winxp_3dfx/winxp_3dfx.html Welcome to the Ansible! Check this out-working great on my voodoo

Goto www.voodoofiles.com and get 3rd party drivers. I have the Voodoo5500 and it uses the same drivers and you. And Read the instruction in the file! If you get an error during install, dont worry just reboot when it asks and then install again. It will go in smooth the 2nd time. Its a common problem. And, make sure your V-Synch is turned on. http://www.voodoofiles.com/5621