Voodoo3 card install problem help needed!

[Kin-Hell]

I read your plight earlier & wanted to help. I use to have a link to a Polish site that read in English on just how to do this. This was the link that had explicit instruction on how to set your mediator up everytime without issues. I was hoping it was just down briefly, but it appears to have died for good!  :-(

http://ext.neostrada.pl/index.shtml.htm

Needless to say, I have a hard copy here & it`s taken me a while to find the darn thing. It was sent to me some years ago by a Guy from Austalia; Henry if I recall correctly. :-)
Perhaps I should get my finger out & type this documentation up to re-host it somewhere! Meantime, I include settings for your Voodoo card. Go to DEVS:Monitors & Right Click your renamed CVision3D (voodoo) icon & select Information from the WB Menu.
On the Tool Types TAB, make sure the Window has the following:

SettingsFile=SYS:Devs/Picasso96Settings
BoardType=Voodoo
BorderBlank=YES
DisplayChain=YES
FakeNativeModes=NO
FontsFix=NO
GrantDirectAccess=NO
IgnoreMask=YES
MemoryClock=188
NoBlitter=NO
NoPlanar2ChunkyBlits=NO
OverClock=YES
BigSprite=NO
Quiet
SoftSprite=NO
System2ScreenBlits=YES
BigSprite=NO

Anything other than above could be removed without issues. There may also be other tooltypes that can run in conjunction with the above.

RE Overclocking

The Voodoo driver from Version 2 onwards allows you to overclock your Voodoo card. The ToolType for this is the "MemoryClock" option. If you comment this out thus, (MemoryClock) the Voodoo driver will automatically select the speed which is correct for your card. Heres the Science:

Voodoo Banshee  -  125Mhz Initially
Voodoo3 2000    -  125Mhz Initially
Voodoo3 3000    -  166Mhz
Voodoo3 3500    -  183Mhz
Voodoo3 3500SE  -  200Mhz
Voodoo4 4500    -  166Mhz
Voodoo5 5500    -  166mhz

Be sure you have adequate ventilation when overclocking. Unless you`re running FPS games on your miggy, there should be no real need to Overclock the Voodoo. ;-)

Well done getting there, it can be quite a frustrating thing to setup corectly. Should be fantastic now it is tho!

All the Best,

Kin  :-)  

[Kin-Hell]

Just found this link which is working but not upto date:

Mediator Guide

Worth a bookmark at the worst.  ;-)

[Kin-Hell]

adonay wrote:

RE Overclocking

Can the amiga even use all the voodoo 3 potential ? Yet alone would you gain anything by overclocking it ?  Or would this perhaps affect all of the mediator DMA

As for installing the voodoo i never had any problems i always felt the elbox readme was very good .

Yeah, but ur gunno need Warp running thro the Voodoo from a PPC card!  ;-)
...and Yes to the Overclocking. 20Mhz more can add another 5 - 7 fps depending on which Voodoo card ur using!