No. No one has a real Voodoo2 anymore. They were all burned in the great Voodoo purge of 2004 and all Voodoo2s are fake now. 🤣

What is the difference between 3dfxgl.dll, 3dfxvgl.dll and voodoogl.dll?

Also I don't fully understand your motivation behind this list. Some of these MiniGLs have resolution and/or texture quality limitations (the latter especially in Half-Life). I'm guessing that you are playing these games through a Glide wrapper, in which case I don't get it even less since they all have native OpenGL which plays them better. Even real Voodoos can run the ICD with high enough speed.

By the way, Call of Duty won't run on Voodoo2 because it'll error out about requiring 512x512 texture support. Might be able to get around that with the Creative MiniGL though

I did get Jedi Outcast running on a Voodoo2 before, but there was strange texture switching issues regarding fonts.

d1stortion wrote:

What is the difference between 3dfxgl.dll, 3dfxvgl.dll and voodoogl.dll?

3dfxvgl.dll - minigl included with Voodoo1/2/Rush standard drivers.
3dfxgl.dll and voodoogl.dll - this is WickedGL drivers, 3rd party opengl -> glide wrapper. Included with retail versions of Return to Castle Wolfenstein (as openglv5.dll and openglv3.dll), Heavy Metal F.A.K.K. 2 and Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. RtCW is using WickedGL by default, others two can force WickedGL through console.

d1stortion wrote:

Also I don't fully understand your motivation behind this list.

NGlide testing. All Q3 engine games are working with 3dfxvgl.dll + nGlide combo, but results are vary. To know the source for graphical glitches - 3dfxvgl or nGlide - I need this testing.

MOHAA doesn't come with WickedGL. 3dfxgl.dll in that is 3Dfx MiniGL 1.48 and voodoogl.dll is 3dfx OpenGL 1.1 ICD 1.0.0389

leileilol wrote:

MOHAA doesn't come with WickedGL. 3dfxgl.dll in that is 3Dfx MiniGL 1.48 and voodoogl.dll is 3dfx OpenGL 1.1 ICD 1.0.0389

Tnx. Heavy Metal F.A.K.K. 2 is the same. Looks like only RtCW is using WickedGL.

Ok, I have replaced my dead Voodoo2.
Have tested the list (P4 3.00E/Intel 865 PE/2 GB RAM/Radeon 2600 Pro Agp (Catalyst 12.4)/STB Voodoo2 12 Mb (Win2k driver 1.02.00).

Test results are:
Quake III, Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, Return to Castle Wolfenstein - glide is supported through 3dfxvgl (selectable in game menu or with minigl chain).

American McGee Alice, Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K. 2, Star Trek: Elite Force II are working, but you must force 3dfxvgl through the console. "Set r_gldriver "3dfxvgl"".

Medal of Honor: Aliied Assault - work, but with bugs in the main menu (backgrounds aren't fully stretched vertically).

Call of Duty, Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix, Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast, Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy - no r_gldriver variable. Maybe there is another way to select 3dfx ICD, but currently I don't know this way. And renaming 3dfxvgl.dll to opengl32.dll and put it to the game directory... No.

r_glDriver's gone in those last ones, since there's no really need for that in the post-Voodoo2 era as Voodoo3 can still work with those games (besides the 512 requiring CoD)

You're going to have to take back that "No" and rename it in the game folder if you want it to work on V2. Since V2 is a secondary device, it never gets top priority for the OpenGL ICD. (If it did, it'd suck for things like windowed opengl apps)

Well, I will try the Matrox Mystique + Voodoo2 + WinME combo. If CoD, SoF2 etc are supporting 3dfxvgl backdoor (like this) - then the renaming is acceptable.

P.S. No 3dfxvgl support in these 4 games... As the example - Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast:

1JK2: v1.02a win-x86 Mar  4 2002
2Initialising zone memory .....
3----- FS_Startup -----
4Current search path:
5D:\Program Files\LucasArts\Star Wars JK II Jedi Outcast\GameData\base\assets1.pk3 (8011 files)
6D:\Program Files\LucasArts\Star Wars JK II Jedi Outcast\GameData\base\assets0.pk3 (6674 files)
7D:\Program Files\LucasArts\Star Wars JK II Jedi Outcast\GameData/base
8
9----------------------
1014685 files in pk3 files
11execing default.cfg
12couldn't exec jk2config.cfg
13couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
14...detecting CPU, found Intel Pentium IV
15
16------- Input Initialization -------
17Skipping check for DirectInput
18Joystick is not active.
19------------------------------------
20
21------- Force Feedback Initialization -------
22...inhibited, not initializing
23
24----- Client Initialization -----
25----- Initializing Renderer ----
26-------------------------------
27----- Client Initialization Complete -----
28--- Common Initialization Complete ---
29Working directory: D:\Program Files\LucasArts\Star Wars JK II Jedi Outcast\GameData
30----- R_Init -----
31Initializing OpenGL subsystem
32...initializing QGL
33...calling LoadLibrary( 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\opengl32.dll' ): succeeded
34...setting mode 3: 640 480 FS
35...using desktop display depth of 16
36...calling CDS: ok
37...registered window class
38...created window@0,0 (640x480)
39Initializing OpenGL driver
40...getting DC: succeeded
41...GLW_ChoosePFD( 16, 16, 0 )
42...23 PFDs found
43...GLW_ChoosePFD failed
44...GLW_ChoosePFD( 16, 16, 0 )
45...23 PFDs found
46...GLW_ChoosePFD failed
47...failed to find an appropriate PIXELFORMAT
48...restoring display settings
49...WARNING: could not set the given mode (3)
50...setting mode 3: 640 480 FS
51...using colorsbits of 16
52...calling CDS: ok
53...created window@0,0 (640x480)
54Initializing OpenGL driver
55...getting DC: succeeded
56...GLW_ChoosePFD( 16, 16, 0 )
57...23 PFDs found
58...GLW_ChoosePFD failed
59...GLW_ChoosePFD( 16, 16, 0 )
60...23 PFDs found

61...GLW_ChoosePFD failed
62...failed to find an appropriate PIXELFORMAT
63...restoring display settings
64...WARNING: could not set the given mode (3)
65...shutting down QGL
66...unloading OpenGL DLL
67----- CL_Shutdown -----
68RE_Shutdown( 1 )
69-----------------------
70GLW_StartOpenGL() - could not load OpenGL subsystem

Results with Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix and Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy are similar.
I will test Call of Duty later.
Others q3engine games use 3dfxvgl if the opengl32.dll initializing failed.

I have a brand new Creative Voodoo 2 sitting here 😉

Have tested already. Results are above...
Still tnx.

I think anachronox is supplied with wicked gl
yep metagl.dll

Davros wrote:

I think anachronox is supplied with wicked gl
yep metagl.dll

I distinctly remember reading in the readme that they wanted to include wicked GL but couldn't afford to because of licensing fees. Are you looking at the GOG version?

Anachronox use MetaGL, not WickedGL. Can be seen in anoxv2v3.bat.
Still this miniGL isn't included with a retail version of Anachronox.
Demo version is included in the patch 1.02 build 44.
Too bad hi-res isn't supported (no 1280x960 support in Voodoos)...

Anachronox uses WickedGL 3.02 (Demo version), developed by Metabyte Inc., hence the name of the dll.