Voodoo Banshee PCI

didamangi · October 22nd, 2004

Guys I'm thinking of buying a Voodoo Banshee 16 MB PCI card just for playing the odd 3DFX/N64 emulator games.

Will it cause problems with my Radeon 9800 Pro, which driver I should use in XP and 98?

Thanks in advance

**Kane** · October 22nd, 2004

I'd suggest that it may cause probs as the drivers for XP on such cards are sketchy at best. You'd be better off getting a proper Voodoo 2 (or 2) or a Voodoo 5, whose drivers don't seem to cause problems

didamangi · October 22nd, 2004

And what drivers are you using now for your voodoo2 Kane?

Esturk · October 22nd, 2004

I had a Voodoo3 PCI for like 2 years and it worked perfectly with ePSXe and 1964 under Windows XP and 98. I used the Amiga Merlin drivers for XP and the last official 3dfx drivers under 98. Go to http://www.3dfxzone.it for the latest XP drivers.

Meh.. Voodoo 2.

Like Kane said, I'd go for a Voodoo5 if possible. Although the PCI versions are a bit harder to come by.

**Kane** · October 22nd, 2004

>And what drivers are you using now for your voodoo2 Kane?

Not at the mo. For some reason they aren't working whichever ones I use, but I think that's down to the board, as it was working fine in my old machine.

Ali · October 23rd, 2004

aah! Voodoo Banchee, was my first 3Dcard.

**Knuckles** · October 24th, 2004

it was my first "real" 3d card , and I still have it here, my little Diamond Monster Fusion PCI

adibbr · October 24th, 2004

Creative 3D Blaster Banshee PCI 16mb, it was my first 3d card! I bought that to play FFVII (pc version). I had a pentium 200 mmx, 16mb ram with that board. When I bought my new pc (this one), it came with a geforce2 mx400 64mb, it was really good (well, for who had a banshee

). After, i bought a geforce 3 ti200 128mb, and now i have a radeon 9500 256 bits with 128mb.

I still have it here, but there aren't any direct3d drivers for winxp... but glide and opengl still works!

didamangi · October 24th, 2004

addibr have you tried playing ps and n64 emulators with that card?

Esturk · October 24th, 2004

Just curious why you want a Voodoo to play N64 and PS emu's when your 9800 Pro can do a way better job?

didamangi · October 24th, 2004

Cause someone sells a banshee with a cheapo price tag

and I wanted a PCI card just in case (bad flashing, etc) and like I said playing the odd 3DFX games which is still hanging around in my room

Voodoo 2/3/5 PCI cards are hard to come by around here, only the agp version is available (lots of em)

adibbr · October 24th, 2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by didamangi

addibr have you tried playing ps and n64 emulators with that card?

yes, they work very well with windows 98. with winxp i have never tried, but i think that if you use a glide plugin they will work. maybe opengl too.

Kazuya Mishima · October 26th, 2004

They work pretty well in win98. The fastest drivers are the xpentor ones. I just have not tried it since winxp (i have exactly the same card you want to buy) because i'm too lazy to install it

Noxious Ninja · October 26th, 2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by Esturk

Just curious why you want a Voodoo to play N64 and PS emu's when your 9800 Pro can do a way better job?

Maybe not PSX, but I think Glide64 is still the best N64 video plugin.

**Knuckles** · October 26th, 2004

actually, if you use the glide plugin for PSX, it runs pretty great.

October 22nd, 2004	#1 (permalink)
didamangi Interplay sucks! Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Indonesia Posts: 1,212	Voodoo Banshee PCI Guys I'm thinking of buying a Voodoo Banshee 16 MB PCI card just for playing the odd 3DFX/N64 emulator games. Will it cause problems with my Radeon 9800 Pro, which driver I should use in XP and 98? Thanks in advance __________________ Updated! PC rig : Athlon XP 2500+ Barton, Shuttle AN35[N] Ultra, 1.5GB DDRAM, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB, Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, Compromate Video TV Tuner, LG GDR8162B DVD-Rom, Liteon CDRW 52/24/52, Win XP Home SP2, Maxtor 6Y120L0 120GB. Consoles : Dreamcast (finally!!), PS2, Saturn, SNES Butuh bantuan menginstall ePSXe atau Project 64? Klik aja disini.

October 22nd, 2004	#2 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	I'd suggest that it may cause probs as the drivers for XP on such cards are sketchy at best. You'd be better off getting a proper Voodoo 2 (or 2) or a Voodoo 5, whose drivers don't seem to cause problems __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

October 22nd, 2004	#3 (permalink)
didamangi Interplay sucks! Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Indonesia Posts: 1,212	And what drivers are you using now for your voodoo2 Kane? __________________ Updated! PC rig : Athlon XP 2500+ Barton, Shuttle AN35[N] Ultra, 1.5GB DDRAM, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB, Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, Compromate Video TV Tuner, LG GDR8162B DVD-Rom, Liteon CDRW 52/24/52, Win XP Home SP2, Maxtor 6Y120L0 120GB. Consoles : Dreamcast (finally!!), PS2, Saturn, SNES Butuh bantuan menginstall ePSXe atau Project 64? Klik aja disini.

October 22nd, 2004	#4 (permalink)
Esturk Registered User Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Posts: 6,957	I had a Voodoo3 PCI for like 2 years and it worked perfectly with ePSXe and 1964 under Windows XP and 98. I used the Amiga Merlin drivers for XP and the last official 3dfx drivers under 98. Go to http://www.3dfxzone.it for the latest XP drivers. Meh.. Voodoo 2. Like Kane said, I'd go for a Voodoo5 if possible. Although the PCI versions are a bit harder to come by. __________________ Necrosaro: Windows XP Pro x64 Edition SP2 \| Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 6MB L2 Cache \| Asus P5Q Deluxe, Intel P45 Chipset, Socket 775 \| 4GB Kingston PC5300 DDR2 \| Nvidia GeForce 8800GT, 1024MB \| Creative SB X-Fi Fatality Edition \| Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD, 150Gb, SATA, Western Digital WD5000AAKS, 500GB, SATA \| LG 16x DVD-RWx2 SATA.

October 22nd, 2004	#5 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	>And what drivers are you using now for your voodoo2 Kane? Not at the mo. For some reason they aren't working whichever ones I use, but I think that's down to the board, as it was working fine in my old machine. __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

October 23rd, 2004	#6 (permalink)
Ali CoLD InSiDE Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Somewhere Posts: 2,613	aah! Voodoo Banchee, was my first 3Dcard. __________________ AMD Athlon XP 2100 @ 1.75 Ghz Gigabyte GA-7VA.XP VIA K400 1.25GB PC3200 System Ram ChainTech GeForCe4 TI 4200 128MB Creative SB Live! 5.1 2x WD Caviar 120GBs and -Rom1 Maxtor 40GB LiteON 16x DVD-Rw WindowsXP Professional-SP2 & Mandrake Linux

October 24th, 2004	#8 (permalink)
adibbr Registered User Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Brasil Posts: 10	Creative 3D Blaster Banshee PCI 16mb, it was my first 3d card! I bought that to play FFVII (pc version). I had a pentium 200 mmx, 16mb ram with that board. When I bought my new pc (this one), it came with a geforce2 mx400 64mb, it was really good (well, for who had a banshee ). After, i bought a geforce 3 ti200 128mb, and now i have a radeon 9500 256 bits with 128mb. I still have it here, but there aren't any direct3d drivers for winxp... but glide and opengl still works! __________________ My system: P4 1.8ghz@2.0ghz 256kb ; 256mb pc800 rambus (400@440mhz) ; asus p4t-e ; radeon 9500 128mb 4pipes 256bits (384/310) ; sound blaster 128pci ; lan 3com 3c905b txnm.

October 24th, 2004	#9 (permalink)
didamangi Interplay sucks! Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Indonesia Posts: 1,212	addibr have you tried playing ps and n64 emulators with that card? __________________ Updated! PC rig : Athlon XP 2500+ Barton, Shuttle AN35[N] Ultra, 1.5GB DDRAM, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB, Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, Compromate Video TV Tuner, LG GDR8162B DVD-Rom, Liteon CDRW 52/24/52, Win XP Home SP2, Maxtor 6Y120L0 120GB. Consoles : Dreamcast (finally!!), PS2, Saturn, SNES Butuh bantuan menginstall ePSXe atau Project 64? Klik aja disini.

October 24th, 2004	#10 (permalink)
Esturk Registered User Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Posts: 6,957	Just curious why you want a Voodoo to play N64 and PS emu's when your 9800 Pro can do a way better job? __________________ Necrosaro: Windows XP Pro x64 Edition SP2 \| Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 6MB L2 Cache \| Asus P5Q Deluxe, Intel P45 Chipset, Socket 775 \| 4GB Kingston PC5300 DDR2 \| Nvidia GeForce 8800GT, 1024MB \| Creative SB X-Fi Fatality Edition \| Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD, 150Gb, SATA, Western Digital WD5000AAKS, 500GB, SATA \| LG 16x DVD-RWx2 SATA.

October 24th, 2004	#11 (permalink)
didamangi Interplay sucks! Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Indonesia Posts: 1,212	Cause someone sells a banshee with a cheapo price tag and I wanted a PCI card just in case (bad flashing, etc) and like I said playing the odd 3DFX games which is still hanging around in my room Voodoo 2/3/5 PCI cards are hard to come by around here, only the agp version is available (lots of em) __________________ Updated! PC rig : Athlon XP 2500+ Barton, Shuttle AN35[N] Ultra, 1.5GB DDRAM, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB, Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, Compromate Video TV Tuner, LG GDR8162B DVD-Rom, Liteon CDRW 52/24/52, Win XP Home SP2, Maxtor 6Y120L0 120GB. Consoles : Dreamcast (finally!!), PS2, Saturn, SNES Butuh bantuan menginstall ePSXe atau Project 64? Klik aja disini.

October 26th, 2004	#13 (permalink)
Kazuya Mishima The seeker of perfection Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Suing somebody Posts: 3,061	They work pretty well in win98. The fastest drivers are the xpentor ones. I just have not tried it since winxp (i have exactly the same card you want to buy) because i'm too lazy to install it __________________ Visit my blog in Spanish: http://andreyirra.blogspot.com

October 26th, 2004	#15 (permalink)
Knuckles Beta Tester Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Floating Island Posts: 99	actually, if you use the glide plugin for PSX, it runs pretty great. __________________

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