NOTICIAS - 3Dfx

05/09/2008
Se deciden comprar 2 bandejas de 108 chips cada una. Así queda la situacion:

So far we have:

First tray of 108 chips:
RaverX - 25
Rolo01 - 50
M14Radu - 20
Komponent - 13

Second tray of 108 chips:
Osckhar - 50
Ps47 - 20
Sigtau - 20 (?)
Kaitou - 10 (?)

Aqui dejamos la condiciones del MOD para todos aquellos que no tienen conocimientos en electrónica o no disponen de los materiales apropioados:

Well... if by any chance someone wants to have me perform the mod on his card(s), here are my condition I work on:
-You pay for shipping both ways.
-You agree for patience. I have little spare time from my dayly job and modding video cards takes alot of time to be done in proper way.
-You send me 5 RAM chips for a Voodoo4 card and 10 memory modules for a Voodoo5 5500 card (and your card to be modded too, ofcourse).
-You agree to pay 10 Euro for the rework of one Voodoo4 card and 25 Euro for modding one Voodoo5 5500. If by my fault, modding is not successfull, you pay nothing for my work, I send the parts back to you, but I do not pay for damages.
-As I am a private individual, not a company, I cannot give you receipts for payment made.
-You can ask me to send back the old chips on the card and the left-over spares, or you can send a Voodoo4 AGP card too to have it modded too using the old chips to 64Mb (by soldering 4 of the old chips in the empty spaces on the PCB), for a rework price of 5 Euro for a Voodoo4 AGP, but, ofcourse, I would me more than happy if you let me keep the old and/or spares chips to have them used in other new 3DFX projects of mine.
-I am not responsable for DOA situations.
By the way, I am located in Romania (that is in the European Union).
If anybody still wants to have me modd his card(s) after reading the above conditions, feel free to contact me.
From Komponent (Rumania)

02/09/2008
¡Empieza un nuevo proyecto! Modificar una V5-5500 AGP 64@128Mb. Las memorias usadas tanto en la V4 como en la V5 son tsop de 8Mb cada chip. Cada chip VSA-100 viene equipado con 4 chips tsop 8Mb 6ns. Gracias a la ayuda de Komponent a través de la empresa donde trabaja ha podido contactar con una empresa que esta dispuesta a vender Chips de memoria TSOP 16Mb 6ns.

Hi friends,
Sorry for being away for a long time. Some of you might remember me from a past success of mine, the Voodoo4 AGP with 64Mb of RAM...
http://www.falconfly.de/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1145604124
Is there in this community the spirit for modding the 3DFX cards to their max still alive?
Because finaly we have the opportunity to accomplish the dream of going to double the orriginal amount of memory on our VSA100 voodoos. That is 64Mb for the Voodoo4, 128Mb for the Voodoo5 5500 and, for the brave, 256Mb with the Voodoo5 6000!
I have the opportunity of buying now the right memory chips (16Mb each) that we need for this project. I am in contact with the reseller company that can provide the memory modules, but it will take a joint effort to get it done, because they will not sell in small quantities.
To keep it short, the minimum batch they agreed to sell is a tray of 108 chips, at a price of 2.40 Euro (3.50 USD) without VAT for a piece. If we can get enough of us to cover this number of RAM modules, then we are good to go. I will take at least 8 chips to mod my own Voodoo5 5500, but there is no way for me alone to pay for all of them.
By the way, the SDRAM is of top quality, it is rated for industrial temp use; I will link bellow the datasheet:
http://www.esmt.com.tw/DB/manager/upload/M12L128324A%2040%2085C.pdf
If anyone here is interested in modding their Voodoo4/5 cards to the double of the default RAM memory, please reply with the number of chips you want to buy.
I have fate that 3DFX is not dead yet and we can togetter pull this off.
From Komponent (Rumania)

15/09/2008 VOODOO1 DRIVER FOR x64
Voodoo 1 GlideXP x64.

Increible y aunque no lo parezca, Colourless lanza una nueva librería (Glide2x) completamente compatible en entornos 64Bits con soporte a Voodoo1 y Voodoo2 y como bien apunta el autor, que alguien llame algún centro psiquiatrico y que admitan al Sr. Ryan Nunn (Colourless) por hacer locuras...

Colourless- Well after 2 days of work, i'm somewhat proud to announce the that I've been sucessful in my task and I present to you Voodoo 1 Drivers for x64. Or as I call them to match my other Glide source endevours, Voodoo 1 GlideXP x64.

Driver Versions Included
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FXVoodoo.sys - 5.2.0.1121 (64 bit)
fxoem2x.dll - 2.53.0.24764 (32 bit)
Glide2x.dll - 2.46.0.23963 (32 bit)
Glide3x.dll - 3.2.0.40607 (32 bit)

The drivers are also listed on GlideXP page from Colourless:
http://www.users.on.net/~triforce/glidexp/

10/07/2007
Nuevo set di driver para Voodoo2 y Voodoo4/5 bajo WindowsXP

Noticia de gran interés. El gran Kool lanza un nuevo driver para Voodoo2 y Voodoo4/5 en entornos XP. La gran peculiaridad del nuevo lanzamiento se encuentra en el pack destinado para la familia VSA-100. Los amantes de la V5-6000 estan de enhorabuena, con este nuevo driver se podrá utilizar el AGP2PCI bajo Windows XP en placas bases de útlima generación una vez encontrado el problema que impedía la instalación del driver.

Koolsmoky, one of our driver developers, have released a new version of it's driver. This driver is distributed in two versions: one for graphic cards based on VSA100 chip (3Dfx Voodoo4 and Voodoo5), the other for 3D graphic accelerators based on Voodoo2 chipset; both have been developed to be used on Windows XP Operating System.
Both versions are DirectX 7 compliant.

Added option to force turn on Voodoo4,5 DVI output. Place string "ForceDFP" set to "1" under registry key,
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services \3dfxvs\Device0".
Replace number of Device0 accordingly.

This should help those having trouble with DFP hot plug detection. If you are looking for a PC BIOS to flash your Voodoo5 5500 PCI DVI Macintosh, come visit the 3dfxzone forums.

Fixed so that Glide/OpenGL runs properly on selected board in a multi-board environment. If an application does not allow board selection, use registry tweek "FX_GLIDE_SST_PRIMARY" and set value to the board number to swap as primiary Glide board.

Fixed so that Voodoo5 6000 runs on top of AGP to PCI riser cards. All FSAA/SLI modes have been tested. Kudos for those who are lucky to have both.

Includes fixes for memmap errors and desktop corruptions.
Optimized for 3dnow! and mmx.
FX_GLIDE_SWAPINTERVAL = 0 will force VSYNC off. V2 SLI may have problems syncing the scanlines when VSYNC is off.
Alphablending dither subtraction is disabled by default. Set SSTH3_ALPHADITHERMODE = 3 to enable dither subtraction.
4x4 dither matrics is used when alphablending dither subtraction is enabled. Other wise it's always 2x2.
Set SSTV2_MISMATCHED_SLI = 1 for mismatched SLI support. This may not work due to differences in V2 board design. If you have problems try swapping the PCI slot order of the V2 boards.
If the screen goes blank but you still hear the application running in the background, reconnect your display and pass-through cable to the second V2 or set SSTV2_SWAPBOARDS = 1
Win9x/ME: copy glide2x.dll and glide3x.dll to c:\windows\system
Quantum3D Obsidian2 X-24, X-16, and similar SLI boards must have the following set.
SSTV2_FT_CLKDEL = 5
SSTV2_TF0_CLKDEL = 7
SSTV2_TF1_CLKDEL = 7
SSTV2_TF2_CLKDEL = 7
SSTV2_SLIM_VIN_CLKDEL = 3
SSTV2_SLIM_VOUT_CLKDEL = 2
SSTV2_SLIS_VIN_CLKDEL = 3
SSTV2_SLIS_VOUT_CLKDEL = 2
SSTV2_GRXCLK = 90

05/10/2006
VOODOO5 5500 AGP MOD MEM 4ns @250MHz EntronTech

Aunque parezca mentira, un grupo de fans de 3Dfx venidos de Rusia han conseguido equipar una conveniconal V5 mem 6ns, con memoria de 4ns EntronTech. De momento las pruebas no son muy alentadoras ya que la voodoo5 tiende a mostrar artefactos cuando se configura a velocidades de 200MHz. Dichas memorias aguantan velocidades por encima de los 250MHz, suponemos el factor límitante es la GPU. Habría que saber que rev Silicon incorpora la GPU, ya que se sabe que la rev.A1 es capaz de superar los 200MHz sin imutarse.

ALT-F13- The easiest way to get more or less fast SDRAM chips is to buy ASUS V7100 Pro 64MB. This is GF 2 MX400 card with 4.0 ns EtronTech chips. Note that 32MB version (which is also available) is equipped with 4.5 ns EtronTech chips. Once these mem chips were the most hunted by overclockers - average overclocking potential of both versions is about 250 MHz and there is chances to get 4.0 ns ones to 260-270 MHz on stock voltage. EtronTech did a great job with these last SDRAM chips. I'd say this should be far enough for VSA-100 core And you still can voltmod the card with proper cooling to get even more!

We have tested this RAM (4.0 ns EtronTech) on V5-5500 - while no performance/overclocking tests have been done due to lack of time, card boots with new RAM without any troubles (this is a note for people disturbed about VSA-100 compatibility with different mem chips).

Here is the pic.

Memory swapped from ASUS V7100 Pro 64MB (GF 2 MX400). Yesterday we (me and cUsLs) tested this card. It does 195 MHz without any troubles at all on stock cooling. 200 MHz is reachable but after 10-15 seconds any test start showing artifacts which looks like troubles of SLI interconnection (like 1 GPU is less overclockable than other).

Indagando en las velocidades soportadas por parte del chip VSA-100, se sabe que existen diferentes revisiones y cada revisión alcanza una velocidad diferente. Todo indica que tanto la V4 como la V5 utilizan la rev 200 y 220, y nos viene a decir que no supera los 200MHz. En cambio la V6k 3700_A utiliza el chip rev 330, capaz de soportar velocidades por encima de 220MHz.