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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: bjacobsen on June 25, 2017, 01:53:09 pm
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Been troubleshooting my GT Complete. The game works thru the menus but freezes when the play starts after course selection. I have tested the HD and its fine and all signs point to the video card, mine doesn't have a fan installed on it.
I am having a horrible time trying to locate the 3dfx voodoo card to replace. I found a post where Ed recommended other cards so I ordered the Creative c7260. When installed I get nothing on the monitor regardless of switch settings.
Anyone have any suggestions on what I need to do to get this card working and or find a 3dfx replacement?
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you are looking for a needle in a haystack. this card was released in a troubling time for 3dfx.
the original card is a "Voodoo3 3000" 16mb Voodoo3 (SG-RAM)
the card was actually just a rebadged version of the banshee GPU with an extra texture core enabled running at higher clock speed. 3dfx was struggling with bankruptcy at the time and was pushing out anything they could to make money. people didn't want what was effectively an overclocked card and many opted to wait until the next iteration of the card came out.
shortly after this voodoo3 was released the voodoo4 (again another rebadge) ... the Voodoo5 (with slightly new architecture)... both of which were released almost right on top of each other. about this time 3dFX finally went bankrupt and was purchased by nvidia.
as such. these cards are super hard to find.
that said, I have a known working one i'd be willing to let go. I have some spares i've hoarded over the years.