redbear
May 31st, 1999, 11:21 PM
Beinga hardware/software tester, I was excited to test a Voodoo3 board in my personal system. I used a new harddrive with Win98 to have a totally clean install. Everything went smoothly. I like to play Ultima Online occasionally, and logged on to UO. Not 3 minutes in the game, my system locked up tight. I logged back in, same thing happened. I then fired up Baldur's Gate and *boom* not 5 minutes into this game, I freeze. So I installed a few more games that use similar engines and they ALL freeze within 10 minutes of running!! I ripped out the Voodoo3 and plopped in my trusty old Matrox G200, and had no more 2d lockups!! I find this to be outrageous! How long do we actually spend in 3d? Most of our time is spent doing 2d, on the desktop stuff. I did go get the newest Voodoo3 drivers from 3dfx, and I am in conversation with 3dfx. They are of the "it must be something you are doing" attitude. Heh, yup, I made the mistake of buying an overclocked Banshee labelled Voodoo3.