I'm assuming you don't have the proper video drivers installed as you may lack a OpenGL ICD (i.e. Windows' own WARP GL->D3D wrapper for their stock drivers doesn't implement everything)

See this thread too http://pcem-emulator.co.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3499 Satisfying DX9 games often requires at least DX7-baseline level hardware (if the game's generous enough to have safe pixelshader-less paths) and the gamut of that falls outside the realistic hobby-attainable scope regardi...

PCem doesn't emulate Logitech mice.

I almost think it's PIO transfer mode on the host machine, which Windows can sometimes inadvertently.turn on when it has trouble reading a cd (which can happen with some protected CDs) and can be very tricky to reverse. I personally use CloneCD/VirtualCloneDrive when dealing with my protected games.

3d games in 99 were targeting Voodoos as they were a major part of the market and they were very compatible with problematic Super7 motherboards (a major budget enthusiast part). The only thing you're really missing out on are the very few games that have 24/32-bit textures, very few games that have...

I'd also like to point this out My aim is to be able to run 3dMark 2001 (or even 2003) smoothly. The generation of hardware PCem emulates have never run either of those smoothly in the real world (even with HWT&L capable hardware like a Geforce4), so you're setting your expectations (from even the m...

Voodoo2/3 drivers new enough (>Nov1999) require a minimum of DirectX 7 installed to work.

Art's my main hobby and even I'm not sure of what the icon could look like (given the broad coverage of 6 computer generations)....

It'd probably have to be a very scaleable SVG for wx theme consistency, which is way out of my familiar comfort zone anyway (32x / 48x @ 256c at best)

Banshee and Voodoo3 can't SLI.


SLI would come back for the Voodoo5 later on in the form of having more VSA-100s doing the work on a single card.

If you don't want to take a chance on the internet as a driver source (I don't blame you, there's a LOT of sketchy driver websites that just want to put their 'easy' Windows-based 'updater' to obfuscate actual driver downloads which show up at the top of the searches for about 19 years now), you can...

Make sure a minimum of DirectX 7 is installed prior to using Voodoo2 drivers from November 1999 and later.

IPC is what really counts. More cores however do benefit the Voodoo emulation (especially now that you can use 4 per card, like 8 for a Voodoo2 SLI) IPC's been improving only at a glacial pace in the past decade though (compared to 1996-2006 which were like at least 4 distinct computer eras). Gettin...

One of the big benefits behind the recent Voodoo Banshee emulation is that some games that *almost* work can have fixes made in a more comfortable testing environment (where no hardware is at risk from the scientific process), and as a result, i've almost got Phantasy Star Online (PC) playable (whic...

This happens when something confuses Win95's IDE controller device drivers (like changing motherboards), try removing them and restarting a couple of times to redetect them. If that doesn't work and you're really desperate, you might want to try a real-mode driver (of the mscdex + oakcdrom/nec_ide.s...

The AMD K6-2 has 3Dnow! extensions and 3dfx Voodoo2 and Voodoo3 drivers after 1999 can take advantage of them for performance gains (which can lead to heavier emulation). The achilles' heel is the VIA MVP3 chipset on the actual boards (historically, they'd skew agp compatibility towards 3dfx cards a...

I typoed, I meant ACPI. The FIC VA-503+ should do it at least.

If you've started PCem with the --config parameter, and the guest uses a newer APIC supported motherboard and Windows 98+ is configured for that, then it should completely exit.

Win98SE doesn't come with any AudioPCI 128/ES1371/ES1373 drivers (win98se drivers are generally current to Dec 1997+DirectX 6.1). They started adding those in Windows 2000 and Me. Also remember, if something's asking for the Win98 cd, you'll want to correct the path to read D:\WIN98 rather than the ...

An interesting way to reproduce the Centipede access violation consistently is to use software 320x240 and head straight for the water...

When V17 came out with the official tuned build, I made myself a spreadsheet table of all the CPUs I can benchmark for 100% execution with a Voodoo Banshee using the second (visible) half of MDK2's benchmark and standing in place on Q3DM17. This was enough for my general use cases. (My fastest 100%'...

It's in Win9X (HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Mouse\ MouseSpeed). Windows 2000 and Me had options to adjust/disable acceleration (and XP would later jam this into a "Enhance pointer precision" checkbox)

V4 changes several things: - FXT texture compression (which never really caught on despite 3dfx's best attempts at creating a new open standard, IIRC only Alice and FAKK2 bothered with FXT) - 32-bit rendering (without any screen filtering) - Larger texture size limit - Temporal full scene anti-alias...

On a drive that big, make sure the hard drive is set to LBA in the BIOS.

Turning off cache doesn't make performance miracles. Here's a P2 233

I wonder if this emulates Amiga's terrible Quake2 performance with one of those (where there's a vertex lighting hack that doesn't really help matters IIRC). I can't imagine the bus being too great for 3d acceleration (akin to using a laptop's docking station)

I don't have Daggerfall around (yeah I know freewared long ago, I just don't have a habit of installing Bethesda software for many reasons) but I wonder if loading Smartdrv also does anything about it... Windows wasn't mentioned anywhere here and neither were FAT32 partitions.

Just know there's many older games that don't understand multitexturing/second TMUs and effectively use the V2 as if it were a 4MB Voodoo1 card. The number is also consistent with driver's control panel itself. There's a checkbox to restrict the texture memory to 2MB (for the 4MB tmem models) to reg...

The option's there for curiosity (a 2mb framebuffer Voodoo2 would've been for arcade machines) A Voodoo2 always have two TMUs, and that chosen texture memory will be multiplied by 2 always on the Voodoo2 option. Same goes for the Obsidian SB50 above it. Consumer V2s always had a 4MB framebuffer, and...

Even at that speed, there will be performance differences from the multitexturing capabilities and fill rate alone. Also the greater amount of texture memory on the Banshee and Voodoo3 will make for far less thrashing (especially against a "24MB" V2SLI) A good place to show the Voodoo3 off is Quake3...