A post on the 3dfxgamers forums by a 3dfx support person is saying some D3D games are having trouble with the SLI configuration of the Voodoo 5 5500, making them run slower than they should. This will be fixed by either new drivers or game patches. Saw that on Voodoo Extreme.

You looking for a fluffy 3dfx interview repeatedly plugging FSAA on a Diablo2 page? Well you're in luck! Diabloii.net has an interview with 3dfx. They manage to mention FSAA in 3 answers in a row!

The 3dfx and Gigapixel merger that was announced so long ago has just now gone official. Here is the press release from 3dfx announcing the done deal.

Besides yesterday's Voodoo 3 and 5 Windows 9x drivers (story 1, story 2) 3dfx has also released new Windows 2000 drivers for the Voodoo 5. This is the first WHQL release of the drivers, and like its Win9x counterpart, this driver mainly fixes game issues.

For all the Voodoo 5 5500 owners, 3dfx has released some new drivers that have updated PCI support and a bunch of game-related fixes (they dont mention anything specific)

From 5.32 all the way to 6, Reactor Critical has the latest unofficial NVidia Detonator drivers again. Word from them is that initial tests show these to be slower than the 5.32 ones in almost all cases so euh there's not much of a reason to get them now. But hey if you want you can get them here.

The boys and girls at 3dfx have released some new drivers for their Voodoo3 2000/3000 cards, for those running on Win9x. These fix some game problems, including an alt-tab crashing bug for Quake3 and Diablo2 not starting on some machines.

As was mentioned yesterday, more details of the 3dfx Rampage seem to be getting out. The guys at Tredfx.com have a bit more info, although kinda sketchy. There will be a separate T&L unit on the card, it will push a lot of polys.

However don't think 3dfx's T&L will be as the T&L engines we have seen up until now.Even in the T&L case 3dfx has chosen its own and original method infact the T&L functions are separeted from the rendering chip and are done by an external dedicated processor.There are rumors about this external processor being the Sage, the chip which was believed to be the successor of Rampage but this is unconfirmed

3dfxgamers has the latest Windows 2000 beta driver for the Voodoo 3 2000/3000. These fix a Half-Life crashing bug.

3dfx has been pretty tight lipped about their next-gen Rampage card. It looks like things might start to change over the summer though. If you remember those specs that got leaked a while back it looks like a pretty happenin card. 3DRetreat got word from 3dfx that the Rampage card will be supporting DirectX and OpenGL. (Notice a lack of Glide?).

Also... I did a bit more digging and came up with this bit from November of 1999 where the 3dfx guys were already more excited about the Rampage than the Voodoo5. Looking at how the V5 boards have come out in the Quake3 benchmarks, I can see why some 3dfx folks may have been already looking ahead.

...a completely new architecture, code-named Rampage. "We've spent the last 18 months having 30 engineers designing a new core from the ground up," Zacarias said. The firm expects to introduce Rampage in the first half of 2000, with production slated for the second half.

Well, I guess Zacarias was wrong on that introduction date.

Savage News has an interview with 3dfx's Alf Covey, talking about how the V5 5500 has done so far. Fool's messageboard has a short interview with David Zacarias, talking about the Rampage card. Very little is reveiled about that one. Thanks VE.

If you were wondering if the Voodoo 5 6000 was ever gonna show up, so was Billy at Voodoo Extreme and so he asked 3dfx's Brian Burke. Here's what Brian had to say

3dfx is concentrating on maximizing revenues while we ride out our component shortage and executing on future product releases. For the near future, this means making sure the 5500 series is successful. I do not think it is any secret that giving out dates prematurely has hurt our company in the past. The V5 6000 product is in development. We will be releasing the V5 6000 this summer. When the release date solidifies, we will make sure everyone knows what it is.

3dfxgamers has non beta drivers for the Voodoo3 2000 & 3000 running on Win9x. Here is the list of changes.

There's a new 10mb Windows 2000 driver for the Voodoo 5 AGP/PCI on 3dfxgamers.com. These are unsupported so if you PC blows up, tough luck. Also there are new Voodoo3 2000/3000 AGP/PCI Win2k beta drivers.

TigerInvestor has an interview with 3dfx's David Zacarias, talking to him about the financial things related to the company, since they aren't doing too great right now.

Figure you guys will like this one. A company has created their own Voodoo2 card which features a T&L engine that they created and put on themselves. 3dfx finally got T&L! Ok, the bad news is that the card cost $7,000... doh.

3dfxgamers has Beta2 of Win9x drivers for the Voodoo3 3500 TV AGP card. The US version is 6.5 megs while the non-US version is only 5.5mb. You'll also need the Visual Reality beta to make sure your card is working properly.

It looks like Anand (and consequently myself) were both wrong about the V5-6000 shipping date. Brian Burke sent along this PP presentation that they were showing at E3 which states the card is shipping July 16th, and not June 16th.

You guys might remember a while ago that 3dfx was telling folks the Voodoo5-6000 would be shipping in the middle of June. Well its that time of the month right now and not a peep from 3dfx. Also, I got 2 seperate emails from guys who work at PC stores telling me that they got notices taking the V5-6000 off the incoming list which it was slated to arrive quite soon.

For the just amazing factor, these guys managed to overclock a Voodoo3-3500 (default clock at 183mhz) board all the way up to 220mhz.