3dfx Voodoo Graphics Gets Windows XP x64 Support

ryszards writes, "GlideXP author Ryan 'Colourless' Nunn has turned his insanity up a notch with a driver that allows running the 32-bit NT Glide .dlls for a Voodoo Graphics board on Windows XP x64. Already supporting Voodoo Graphics and Voodoo 2 on 32-bit Windows XP, adding XP x64 to the mix lets even more folks reminisce about the good old early days of consumer 3D acceleration hardware. Any excuse to fire up GLQuake one more time!"

Re:Daryl Strauss would be proud

[Anonymous Coward]

That's one of the real practical benefits of open source - old peripherals keep working practically forever, whereas commercial closed-source vendors have no incentive to port their old drivers to new operating systems and machine architectures.

Re:Daryl Strauss would be proud

[PygmySurfer]

Wow linux had to wait 6 months to get this driver, it only took XP x64 7 1/2 years!

Yeah, and only the first 6 years of that timeframe was spent waiting for the x64 edition of Windows XP

Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition released on April 25, 2005 by Microsoft is a variation of the typical 32-bit Windows XP operating system for x86 personal computers.

Oh wait, the linked article doesn't even say anything about x64 support for the Linux 3Dfx driver. So what exactly are you trying to say, again?

Re:Good old glide... RIP

[VGPowerlord]

How about Quake in software mode and then in GLQuake?

Which, of course, brings up the biggest problem with 3dfx cards prior to the Voodoo 4: OpenGL support. OpenGL was implemented for GLQuake, Quake 2, Half-life, Hexen 2, Heretic 2, and Sin using special "MiniGL" drivers that changed specific OpenGL instructions to their Glide equivalents.

Re:Daryl Strauss would be proud

[Agent Green]

FWIW, I have a first-generation SB Live card (remember the one with the Live! Drive??) which I've had since 1998. It has and continues to work flawlessly, even in Vista Beta 2.

Now, RC1 comes along and Creative decides to not release a driver for it. Now, granted, the X-Fi series of cards is far, far ahead and beyond what my SBLive does. However ... there is nothing wrong with my SBLive now, and I haven't really seen much of a benefit to upgrade the card.

Besides, the thought of buying PCI anything with PCIExpress becoming more and more common is crazy.