My Voodoo is 5 working in OSX |
May, 18, 2003 10:44 AM |
marcush |
I reinstalled my Voodoo 5 card recently to play Deus Ex in OS9 and forgot to switch the monitor connector to the Radeon card when I booted into OSX about 20 minutes ago. I noticed that Quartz Extreme acceleration was disabled and then realized that the Voodoo 5 must be driving the video. I knew from past experience that it would drive a second monitor but had never thought to try using it for main video. It is obviously not accelerated but it is not too slow either. Just a curios observation. I have it in a Power Tower Pro 225 w/Sonnet G4 800, 1GB RAM, Sonnet Tempo ATA 100, Ratoc Firewire/USB2.0 combo, M-Audio Revolution 7.1, Zynx 345 10/100 ethernet, ATI Radeon Mac Edition 32MB, 3dfx Voodoo 5. |
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RE: My Voodoo is 5 working in OSX |
May, 20, 2003 10:28 AM |
earlyd416 |
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I think we talked about this when the forum first opened, but it would sure be nice if we can convince some programming types to convert those Linux drivers to Darwin and MacOS X. Sigh. --Dwight |
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RE: My Voodoo is 5 working in OSX |
May, 19, 2003 8:40 PM |
marcush |
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Indeed. |
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RE: My Voodoo is 5 working in OSX |
May, 19, 2003 2:06 PM |
mjoecups358 |
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Yeah, boo hoo. It's strange that the Linux guys have 3d opengl support for this card, but we don't. It sure would be sweet to have 3d support for this old monster card. I bet it would smoke the wimpy radeon 7000. Marty |
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RE: My Voodoo is 5 working in OSX |
May, 19, 2003 10:44 AM |
marcush |
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Unfortunately, the Voodoo 5 is definitely not faster than the Radeon w/o Quartz Extreme. It has no 2D accelleration so there is some visible screen redraw when scrolling. It is not dog slow though. I'm using version 1.1.3 of the 3dfx drivers in OS9. There is a link from xlr8yourmac.com in the mac3dfx pages. Mac3dfx is linked from the site's side bar. It's still a great card. I wish there was some way to get accelerated video out of it in OSX because it would still be my main graphics card. |
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RE: My Voodoo is 5 working in OSX |
May, 19, 2003 8:00 AM |
earlyd416 |
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What version of the drivers are you using in OS9? Is the latest version on the web? URL? TIA. --Dwight |
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RE: My Voodoo is 5 working in OSX |
May, 18, 2003 9:45 PM |
powderhaus |
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is the voodoo faster than the rady with no quartz ex? |
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RE: My Voodoo is 5 working in OSX |
May, 18, 2003 10:45 AM |
marcush |
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I forgot to mention I'm running 10.2.6 |
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