kithylin wrote:

Well I've been trying to come up with something that I could contribute to this wonderful community here, and I've been looking […]
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Well I've been trying to come up with something that I could contribute to this wonderful community here, and I've been looking for something myself and after a very long time searching, I have finally come up with something, and thought I'd share it!

Now.. these drivers I've found, actually do claim to be for "3Dfx Velocity 100/200", however I have run the installer on my AthlonXP machine running windows 3.11, and it has an auto-detection mechanism built in to it, and some how my Voodoo3 3000 card was detected successfully under the "3Dfx Velocity 100/200" label, and it allowed me to set the higher video modes.

I've then rebooted and verified that indeed, these drivers do allow up to 1024x768 mode on a Voodoo3 3000 AGP card @ 65k colors.

I've also run "3D Ultra Pinball" game, which detects and can switch to 64k color mode, and it runs perfectly fine and works great.

So there ya go, windows 3.1 drivers for voodoo3. 😀

http://www.outfoxed.net/wfw/3DFX-WFW.DOS.rar

Nice! Those came from Aquanox in 2010.
http://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=15868
http://www.falconfly.de/voodoo3.htm

Still, good find! 😀

I couldn't remember where I had found them in the past as my main file server died a few months back and I lost all my old computer software and documentations. And then I found them in a folder on my AthlonXP machine, and didn't know where they came from so thought I'd share em anyway.

And I wasn't sure if it was obvious to others that they worked on a Voodoo3 3000, so thought I'd document that, too.

No worries, man! 😁

For #9 drivers you can have a look at ftp://78.46.141.148/driver/NumberNine/

elianda wrote:

For #9 drivers you can have a look at ftp://78.46.141.148/driver/NumberNine/

Excellent. I needed the latest drivers for my Revolution3D and Revolution IV. I'm guessing that a generic S3 driver would work with their S3 boards?

I haven't tried this.

There appears to be a file missing from the archive that would allow access to 32 bit color. The "readme" notes refers to a third color depth driver, 3fxhv332.exe. Does anyone have this file from another source?

Is there a similar driver that will work for the Banshee? Because from what I'm reading this won't work for a Banshee, which is odd when under Everest my Banshee identifies as a Voodoo3 SDRAM with only one TMU.

Do you know if with these drivers you can establish a resolution of 1280x1024 with 64k colors in a voodoo3?

The driver files contain a very interesting looking .INI file to define monitor support (3FXMON.INI). It includes VESA 1280x1024 at 75 and 72 Hz. It also includes some odd resolutions like 864x1200 and 2000x1500.

I wonder if you could modify that file to force Windows 3.11 into a widescreen mode such as 720p or 1080p at the correct aspect ratio. I wish I had a 3DFX card to test.

The 3FXMODE.INI file includes a 32-bit color option as well as video memory size options up to 4MB. That should be enough RAM for high-color display at 1280x1024.

The driver files contain a very interesting looking .INI file to define monitor support (3FXMON.INI). It includes VESA 1280x1024 at 75 and 72 Hz. It also includes some odd resolutions like 864x1200 and 2000x1500.
I wonder if you could modify that file to force Windows 3.11 into a widescreen mode such as 720p or 1080p at the correct aspect ratio. I wish I had a 3DFX card to test.

I think that in PCEM you can do it.

The 3FXMODE.INI file includes a 32-bit color option as well as video memory size options up to 4MB. That should be enough RAM for high-color display at 1280x1024.

I tried changing the BPP to 16 but Windows 3.11 stops booting.
Mode_1280x1024x8_2av = 80.0, 75.0, 1280, 1024, 16, 2048, 1280, 57864, QV08_1280x1024_2, QV_Setup_2048_2M
I have also tried with the value 32 but the image is so big that it exceeds the screen.
Mode_1280x1024x8_2av = 80.0, 75.0, 1280, 1024, 32, 2048, 1280, 57864, QV08_1280x1024_2, QV_Setup_2048_2M

Maybe I'm not doing it right.