How to run 3Dfx Glide/Voodoo games on modern Windows, and run them in HD with widescreen!

This guide will show you how to run DOS and Windows 3Dfx Glide accelerated games on a modern Windows system. You can actually upscale all these old games as well and make them look better on widescreen monitors.

Timeline:
0:00 - Intro
1:10 - Setting up dgVoodoo2 on Windows
3:50 - Additional thoughts regarding dgVoodoo
4:57 - Setting up DOS 3Dfx games
6:27 - Closing thoughts.

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[MacCekko]

I stumbled in your fantastic video while I was just asking myself if I would ever be able to feel what I felt in 1998 when Tomb Raider II was first released for the Mac, as I used to have a 3dfx Video Card in my PowerMac 8500 (yeah, quite strange that Macs allowed users to replace components, but certainly it was less rare in late nineties' tower/mini-tower models than later on). Now I do games only on my PC nowadays and I would like to feel that sensation again, while admiring that very special kind of render that only Voodoo used to bring.
Thank you very much, from the bottom of my heart. Yet another step toward Memory Lane! :)

[SireSquish]

Thank you for actually putting the relevant link in the description! :) (So many say "link in description" but never actually put it there)

[pc-sound-legacy]

If you saw the 3DFX splash screen back in the days, you always knew you'd get a decent game experience:-) Thanks for this - as I have 3DFX cards I do not need it but I think this will help many people without retro hardware. And yes, prices for 3DFX cards going insane constantly. I remember when ebay sellers offered tons of voodoo 3s for less than 20 bucks and no one seemed to care😄 We should have known better lol

[Thesavagesouls]

3:24 I complety forgot about that game. I think I played the demo when I was a kid and I loved it. I'm going to try to get it. Thank you.

[pentiumgaming]

subbed, this guide is amazing
emulating some glide games while i wait for the parts for my voodoo banshee rig to arrive

[sly_botts]

I've been using this method for a number of years. It works great! Even for non glide games from that era you can copy over the D3D files and it will make those games work better as well. One thing I did notice though, with the retail disc version of Half-life the 3dfx mini-driver does not like dgvoodoo2.

[jimmyf]

I've have an interesting setup, windows XP and nglide connected to my 4k TV LG OLED. Amazing . Nglide works like a charm,

[lancervi]

My very first sound card? Sound Blaster 1.0. My very first 3d graphics add-on card, Voodoo!

I miss 3dfx and Matrox for that matter.

[lurkerrekrul]

For what it's worth;

On my old system, I used Dgvoodoo to play the game Klingon Honor Guard. At the time, I figured "Why not put the DLLs in the System directory so that everything could use them." When I later installed another game (I think it was Return to Castle Wolfenstein), it kept crashing on me. After much frustration, I went and deleted the DLLs I had copied to System, and after that, the game worked. Apparently it thought that I had a Voodoo card and was trying to use it. I don't recall any option to switch which graphics method it used, or if there was a way to switch, I wasn't aware of it.

[CYOND]

Nice video. Besides dgVoodoo I also use PCem to emulate Voodoo cards running on Win98/95.

[Vntilator]

I still have my Orchid 3DFX Voodoo 1 and 2 Cards. DGVoodoo2 is still updated and newest is from april 2024.

[MCalundan]

Like the One Must Fall 2097 ending theme playing in the background !

[yigras]

i remember playing 3d world of Warcraft with a voodoo lol
but i cant find anything about it on the web but i definitely played it .

[MM-pled]

we are trying to run the classic old pc game called *Enemy Infestation* (1998) from Microprose in windows 10 (64-bits)

[FractAlkemist]

I still have my Voodoo-2 and Voodoo-3 cards, and my fave games Carmageddon(s) and Descent(s). But since I use Linux, I don't know what to do with them. I miss those '90's games!

[silverfoenix]

What was the graphical glitches with Descent?
If its flicker
I remember another option I used to run Airstrike 3D on intelGMA 945 graphics, a tool called 3danalyzer from a site called 3DFX Zone!
Other options I know that emulate 3Dfx are Dosbox pure, PCem & 86box
Thanks for the Very informative video.

[starsiegeplayer]

Haven't tried dgvoodoo for a long time. It didn't work so well then. May try it again.

[quiet]

thank you so much for this video. finally i was able to run this tomb raider 1 demo i have

[udhb]

Try DXX-Rebirth for Descent 1+2. It's a source port with OpenGl support.

[lapielazoolie]

I’m curious how to do it on “modern” hardware… but w/ Windows 9X installed onto bare metal