Looking for Voodoo 3dfx 1 or 2 software

[solarpv]

I picked up a Gateway Destination with 2 video cards in it. I hooked up the video card jumper. It now finds a pci multimedia video hardware but does not find the driver. I am guessing it is the voodoo card.

 

[HoJoPo]

Might be a voodoo card, might be a hardware MPEG-2 decoder for DVD playback. You can look up the PCI IDs to find out, or open the case and check out the card.

 

[GiGaBiTe]

I'm almost 100% certain it's a Voodoo1/2. MPEG decoder cards usually had no output, they connected to the main video card through the VESA feature connector internally with a ribbon cable.

Falconfly had a good driver archive for all 3dfx cards.

FalconFly 3dfx Archive

I'd recommend some of the 3rd party drivers, which have better performance and bug fixes over the stock 3dfx drivers.

 

[Timo W.]

I'm almost 100% certain it's a Voodoo1/2. MPEG decoder cards usually had no output, they connected to the main video card through the VESA feature connector internally with a ribbon cable.

That is not correct. I own a 16-bit ISA MPEG 1 decoder card (2themax MPEG Wonder) that has two VGA connectors and connects just like a Voodoo. Also, all later MPEG2/DVD decoder cards for PCI from RealMagic, Creative Labs etc. are connected externally as well (though they use custom cables).

I'm agreeing however that the card pictured is most likely a Voodoo card.

 

[GiGaBiTe]

That is not correct. I own a 16-bit ISA MPEG 1 decoder card (2themax MPEG Wonder) that has two VGA connectors and connects just like a Voodoo. Also, all later MPEG2/DVD decoder cards for PCI from RealMagic, Creative Labs etc. are connected externally as well (though they use custom cables).

All of the MPEG decoder cards I have ever seen and currently own use the internal VESA header. The one I have for my PowerPC Macintosh uses an internal header as well.

 

[mt777]

you can run mojo.exe and it will tell you the truth

 

[solarpv]

I just found this in my old computer spare parts from when I used to do service calls for Gateway. I actually worked for IBM but we did service calls for other computer companies.