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How to force SoftGPU to install 3Dfx files?

Open Burinis opened this issue 5 months ago • 2 comments

I use VMWare Workstation Pro 17.6.3. I updated your driver to v0.8.2025.51-preview. I wanted to set up games with Glide there, for which I mounted your driver image, but the "Copy 3Dfx files (vgl, splash)" checkbox is unavailable there. The maximum that I can install for Glide games is OpenGlide, but in practice, no game using Glide works with it. The same thing on VirtualBox 7.1.10.

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What virtual machine is this option intended for? What to do?

Burinis avatar Jul 11 '25 11:07 Burinis

This option is only present, when on install media is present 3Dfx Voodoo2 driver. I don't include it on public releases due to licence incompatibility. But additional include is simple download last reference driver (from example from here: https://www.philscomputerlab.com/drivers-for-voodoo-2.html) and extract it (for example with 7zip) to driver\voodoo2 folder on instalation media (inject in to iso, or just add to extracted zip release). But whole thing has only a minimal effect, currently only copy original splash screen (3dfxSpl2.dll and 3dfxSpl3.dll). You can achive same effect when you copy these 2 files from driver to WINDOWS\system folder.

JHRobotics avatar Aug 02 '25 17:08 JHRobotics

This option is only present, when on install media is present 3Dfx Voodoo2 driver. I don't include it on public releases due to licence incompatibility. But additional include is simple download last reference driver (from example from here: https://www.philscomputerlab.com/drivers-for-voodoo-2.html) and extract it (for example with 7zip) to driver\voodoo2 folder on instalation media (inject in to iso, or just add to extracted zip release). But whole thing has only a minimal effect, currently only copy original splash screen (3dfxSpl2.dll and 3dfxSpl3.dll). You can achive same effect when you copy these 2 files from driver to WINDOWS\system folder.

How can I do this? I have Alcohol 120%.

Burinis avatar Aug 04 '25 10:08 Burinis