"nglide" 3dfx games!!

[DiDaDo]

Hello

This a plugin for Win7 (64bit),
with this plugin your operating system thinks it has a 3dfx video card installed..
So you get a 3dfx card installed next to youre Nvidia or Ati card.

If you don't know what or who 3dfx was then shame on you

Click on the link for the games that are playable..
nGlide - 3Dfx Glide wrapper | Zeus Software

Thank you

 

[WalkerA WinTeam]

Looks interesting... but I have no idea what it is. Can you please give a little more information?

Cheers,

Walker
Windows Outreach Team

 

[DiDaDo]

I thougt most people out here are old enough to know the old rival of Nvidia and ATI..

Some games that you can play again:

- Fifa 98: Road To World Cup
- Need For Speed 2 SE
- Pandemonium 2
- Test Drive 5
- Turok: Dinosaur Hunter

etc..

 

[smarteyeball]

I thought most people out here are old enough to know the old rival of Nvidia and ATI..

Which nvidia bought out after they went bankrupt

Cool find.

 

[DiDaDo]

That's the whole thing.. Nvidia 3D"FX5500"

 

[WalkerA WinTeam]

Oh cool Yes I am apparently from a different generation... but I may give this a go anyway!

Walker
Windows Outreach Team

 

[sygnus21]

Hmm... I'll have to look into this. Thanks

BTW I still have my 5500 in it's original box!.



I also have a Diamond Monster 3DII

 

[DiDaDo]

SWEET i have the PCI version (yes pci not pci-e ) of that 3DFX VOODOO 5500..

Still got the box and manual with driver cd.. (win98 huhu)

 

[WalkerA WinTeam]

I also have a Diamond Monster 3DII

Hard to believe there was a time when an 8-inch VGA cable was as long a cable as you needed to go from CRT monitor to the horizontal box underneath!

 

[sygnus21]

That cable is actually used for an SLI setup

A critically acclaimed feature of the Monster 3D II (and all other Voodoo2 boards) was the capability to connect two identical boards in a SLI (Scan-line Interleave) configuration. In SLI, a pair of Voodoo2 boards splits the effort of rendering the 3D scene, allowing performance to be nearly doubled.

Diamond Multimedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[WalkerA WinTeam]

Oh gotcha. Wait, I thought SLI was scaled link interface?

 

[Darician]

Great find! I remember the good old 3dfx days. There are some games I just cannot get to run under my GeForce GT 220 the way they ran on my old 3dfx Voodoo3 3000. Ah memories ... damn, what a quick way to feel old.

 

[nokken]

That cable is actually used for an SLI setup

A critically acclaimed feature of the Monster 3D II (and all other Voodoo2 boards) was the capability to connect two identical boards in a SLI (Scan-line Interleave) configuration. In SLI, a pair of Voodoo2 boards splits the effort of rendering the 3D scene, allowing performance to be nearly doubled.

Diamond Multimedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Close but not quite.

The VGA cable included with Voodoo2 boards was a pass-thru type. Voodoo2 boards were not stand-alone display adapters, just graphics accelerators. You hooked the Voodoo2 up to your already existing display adapter via the short VGA cable.

The original version of SLI actually connected both cards via a very short cable that looked more like an IDE ATA/33 or Floppy drive cable. Flat ribbon style.

 

[DiDaDo]

UPDATE:

nGlide 0.96 changelog:

Glide2:
-added support for Gulf War: Operation Desert Hammer
-added support for Screamer 2 (with DOSBox + Gulikoza patch)
-added support for Screamer Rally (with DOSBox + Gulikoza patch)
-fixed Nascar Legends car decals
-fixed Nuclear Strike menu bugs
-fixed Tomb Raider credits crash
-fixed Unreal & Unreal Tournament textures bugs

Glide3:
-added support for Fifa 2000
-added support for Fifa 2001
-added support for GP 500
-added support for Hardwar: The Future is Greedy
-added support for Hype: The Time Quest
-added support for TEXTUREBUFFER extension (used by Glide64)
-fixed Arabian Nights in-game resolution change crash
-fixed Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis menu glitches

Miscellaneous:
-added ability to choose screen aspect ratio
-50% faster texture palettes handling
-improved internal Glide FPS limiter (smoother animation)
-improved gamma correction scale
-improved splash screen rendering (no resolution switching)

nGlide 0.95 changelog:

Glide2:
-added support for Actua Tennis
-added support for Kingpin: Life of Crime
-added support for San Francisco Rush: The Rock Alcatraz Edition
-fixed Clive Barker's Undying black mirrors and textures bugs

Glide3:
-added support for Divine Divinity
-added support for Return to Castle Wolfenstein
-added support for Supreme Snowboarding
-fixed Rollcage Stage 2 Ventura track crash
-fixed Test Drive 5 black car bug

Miscellaneous:
-added support for multitexturing
-added support for widescreen 16:9 resolutions
-added '3Dfx logo splash screen' option in nGlide configurator
-'Vertical synchronization' option in nGlide configurator is now 'On' by default

This is nice

 

[Warris007]

Hello,

Thank you very much, I was trying to get this game working for over 3 hours and this did the trick! Sorry for bumping a old thread, just thought I'd say thanks!

 

[RoasterMen]

The Voodoo 5 5500 Can run Half Life 2 with no problems, trust me you can search it on youtube that a guy plays HL2 with it.