Download 32 Bit And 64 Bit Windows XP 2000 3dfx Voodoo3 Drivers

This is ninth SFFT driver release based on the new Unified Architecture supporting by one package all Voodoo3 family, including Voodoo3 2000, Voodoo3 3000 and Voodoo3 3500 cards, as well as all 3dfx VSA-100 products and so Voodoo4 4500, Voodoo5 5500 and Voodoo5 6000 cards. It is designed and developed to work with both Windows 2000/XP (32 bit) and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (64 bit) Microsoft Operative Systems.

Download 32 bit and 64 bit Windows XP 2000 3dfx Voodoo3 drivers

3Dfx Voodoo 3 drivers will help to eliminate failures and correct errors in your device's operation. Download 3Dfx Voodoo 3 drivers for different OS Windows versions (32 and 64 bit). After you have downloaded the archive with 3Dfx Voodoo 3 driver, unpack the file in any folder and run it.

Once you have downloaded your new driver, you'll need to install it. In Windows, use a built-in utility called Device Manager, which allows you to see all of the devices recognized by your system, and the drivers associated with them.

3dfx has been out of business for a few years now. NVIDIA acquired some of 3dfx's technology but does not give technical support any of the 3dfx Voodoo cards. As such, there have been no new official drivers or technical support. However, a number of loyal fans have created drivers for the Voodoo cards, which can be downloaded from 3Dfx section of Falconfly's archive.

Yes. Say your card only supports DirectX 7 compatible drivers, and you want to install DirectX 9. In this case, every time DirectX wants to communicate with the 3dfx card, via the drivers, it will step down and use DirectX 7 interfaces. This has been the case up through DirectX 9 as far as I am aware, but future versions of DirectX may phase out the older interfaces, e.g. DirectX 7, in which case installing the newer version of DirectX with DirectX 7 would not be a good idea.

Make sure that you have the latest original 3dfx drivers, and check for specific fixes in the Game Guide. If these two suggestions do not help then go into the video options and sound options menu in the game and turn all the options to the lowest settings. Next, gradually turn up each of the options in the two menus until your performance starts getting poor again, or until you see graphical errors. Keep the setting off or one setting below the mark that causes problems, and continue with the rest of the options until you find a suitable combination for gaming. If none of this helps, then try some 3rd party drivers for your card and operating system.

The Voodoo cards do not support OpenGL; their equivalent API is known as '3dfx Glide', but OpenGL can be accessed effectively using the Glide Miniport Driver (MiniGL 1.48/1.49) ,OpenGL 1.1 1.0.0.0761 ICD, WickedGL (up to OpenGL 1.2), or MesaFX (up to OpenGL 1.4). These are standalone GL drivers which act as an abstraction layer between the OpenGL application software and Glide 2.x/3.x drivers, respectively. The basic differences:

Device Manager: One way to find what card or drivers you are using is to right click on My Computer (or in the Control Panel go to System) and click Properties. Then go to the Device Manager tab (if using Windows 9x) or click the Hardware tab and then Device Manager (if using Windows 2000/XP) and look under Display Adapters/Devices (Voodoo Rush/Banshee/3/4/5) or Sound, Video, and Game Controllers for Voodoo Graphics and the Voodoo2. See if it lists a video card there, i.e. VoodooX YZ00, X being the type of card, be it Banshee/2/3/4/5, and YZ00 being the version of that card type, for example Voodoo3 1000/2000/3000/3500. Right click the card if it is there and click properties and you can see what drivers are installed in the Drivers tab, and if there are any problems with the card, like IRQ conflicts or driver installation problems then it should tell you.

One should always try to use the latest original 3dfx drivers before trying any of the other drivers, unless these are the drivers already installed on the system (see How To Find What Card or Drivers You are Using on how to find out what driver version or card you're using). If there is not a fix for your problem listed on this page then the next course of action is to download and install the recommended 3rd party drivers for your card and operating system (in some cases region as well, for the Voodoo3 3500 TV). If this does not work then try one of the two alternate drivers (where applicable). The recommended drivers are labeled as such because of feedback from people who have tried them, but it is possible that another driver set would work better for your specific system configuration and personal needs. If you are absolutely certain that there is not a quick fix for your problem, head over to some good 3dfx forum (www.3dfxzone.it or www.falconfly.de should do) and ask for some help.

Since there is no longer any warranty on 3dfx cards (if you didn't know this you do now) and if you feel like getting that extra bit of performance out of it then you can try overclocking. There are many overclocking tools on the Internet that can be downloaded (try the official 3dfx overclock.exe which adds an overclocking tab to the 3dfx Tools in Windows 9x/ME, or you can try Powerstrip or something similar. Note that 3dfx overclock or any other regular overclocking tool will NOT work with the Voodoo5 properly, as it will only overclock the first VSA-100 GPU. Download VSA100 Overclocker if you want to overclock a Voodoo5). You can also edit the card video BIOS using the tdfx bios editor though details on how to do this are not presented here. Once you run the tool you will notice the default clock speed for your card. Start by increasing the clock by 1 MHz at a time and testing it before continuing. This is a slow process but will achieve the most successful overclock. If any graphical errors (e.g. artifacts) appear on your screen or your computer freezes, then you have probably overclocked by too much and should lower the clock rate by 1 or 2 MHz. If you OC by too much and Windows crashes just as it reaches the desktop or before, try booting into Safe Mode and restoring the default clock. All the 3dfx Core and Memory clocks are locked as sync'd; they cannot be de-sychronised. You cannot overclock memory and core seperately.

This fix will work for any Half-Life1 mod that runs on Steam (Day of Defeat, Team Fortress Classic etc), just copy the WickedGL opengl32.dll file to the correct steam game folder (day of defeat folder for Day of Defeat, team fortress classicfolder for Team Fortress Classic etc) and you are all set. If you are still playing Counter-Strike 1.5 (the old noSteam version, on LAN or with bots), just select 3dfx minigl driver (voodoo2/3) or default opengl (voodoo3/4/5) in the video options and the game should work fine. You can use WickedGL as well (for all cards), use the wickedgl switching utility this time, launch it, select Half-Life on the left side, open your Half-Life folder on the right side and click install (the regular version). Use 3dfx minigl as your driver in the video options. Note that WickedGL may be slower on older 3dfx cards.

If a game ever gives you a blue screen of death (or just a crash that requires an immediate restart), you probably have to reinstall your drivers. If the game does not work as described in this section, reinstalling the recommended drivers is a good idea. Also, remember to keep background applications disabled. Use 16-bit color rather than 32-bit color if you do not get a good frame rate with maximum screen resolution or highest texture detail. Only if you are using 16 bit color, no Anti-Aliasing with V-Sync disabled, should you turn down a game's screen resolution or texture quality level. This is just the way 3dfx cards should be used for the best graphics/frame rate tradeoff. An interesting note: 3dfx cards are superior to newer NVIDIA cards in that they have a lower mouse latency (mouse lag) per frames per second, but only if you keep the 3dfx tools setting "Maximum pending buffers" at the lowest setting. In other words the time it takes for your mouse movement to show up on screen is independent of the frame rate much more than it would be on an NVIDIA card.

Here you can find special fixes for many new games that do not run properly or not at all. We have not mentioned older games that work just fine, but newer games that do work are mentioned/should be mentioned so everyone knows they can buy them. All fixes mentioned assume you have the latest official game patch and are not using any no-CD patches or other inherently unstable modifications. If not otherwise mentioned, the guide assumes you are using the suggested drivers. If you need fix for a game that is not listed in the Guide yet, head over to some good 3dfx forum (www.3dfxzone.it or www.falconfly.de should do) and ask for some help.

If your computer's mother board is based on the VIA chipset, you may need to download and install the VIA 4-in-1 drivers. This has resolved a lot of reported cases of computer crashes, locks and freezes, sound card trouble, as well as significantly improved many computer's performance.

Before you download the VIA 4-in-1 drivers, however, Spitfire says that there's a BIOS setting that, if needs to be changed, might resolve your problem without going any further. Make sure that the BIOS "DRAM Clock" value is set to "HCLK" and not to "HCLK + PCICLK". Essentially what this does is to lower you RAM's clock speed to 100mhz. Just remember to set it back to what it should be once you're done installing or updating OFP.

The ASPI drivers are the property of ADAPTEC. For the latest ASPI drivers from Adaptec, see this page. If that link no longer works, go to ADAPTEC's site and search the site's support and downloads section for "aspi".

Without broad application support at the time, critics pointed out that the T&L technology had little real-world value. Initially, it was only somewhat beneficial in certain situations in a few OpenGL-based 3D first-person shooters, most notably Quake III Arena. Benchmarks using low-budget CPUs like the Celeron 300A would give favourable results for the GeForce 256, but benchmarks done with some CPUs such as the Pentium II 300 would give better results with some older graphics cards like the 3dfx Voodoo 2. 3dfx and other competing graphics-card companies pointed out that a fast CPU could more than make up for the lack of a T&L unit. Software support for hardware T&L was not commonplace until several years after the release of the first GeForce. Early drivers were buggy and slow, while 3dfx cards enjoyed efficient, high-speed, mature Glide API and/or MiniGL support for the majority of games. Only after the GeForce 256 was replaced by the GeForce 2, and ATI's T&L-equipped Radeon was also on the market, did hardware T&L become a widely utilized feature in games. 350c69d7ab