SimCity 3000 hangs with Voodoo2

[DSN]

Hello all!

I found an issue in SC3000.

When Voodoo2 is selected in Preferences, it hangs when I click to start a city, in the city options window (or a starter city) (fps drops to 0, as shown in the status window).

Otherwise, with S3VirgeDX selected in preferences it works fine, how this?

What do you think?

[leilei]

I remember I've had that happen on real hardware ages ago. Simcity 3000 being too nice to allow the Voodoo2 card to be used as a slow 2D blitter has its price. This was advised against back in the day.

Probably the other major PC game of the time to allow this Voodoo2 2d blitting is Final Fantasy VII which can slowly use a software renderer on the card for no reason other than DirectDraw allowing it.