Moving to Windows 10 64-bit would be more complicated. However, Omores explained that in 2006 a dev called Ryan Nun (AKA Colourless) published an experimental 3dfx Glide Project for x64 – based on research into original Win NT (1996) drivers. These new kernel drivers worked for Omores on a Win10 64-bit install, with a fix that was made for XP systems.
The TechTuber saw no real reason why Windows 11 shouldn’t work the same way after driver signature enforcement was removed. But, of course, things weren’t so simple. Surprisingly, a change of PCI slot cleared an early hiccup, getting the system to the same easily fixed error point where the Win 10 64-bit stalled (the Mapmem error).
“We now have a 3D accelerator from 1998, using a driver that relies on services written for Windows NT from 1996, successfully running in Windows 11 23H2,” wryly observed Omores. We’d add that the CPU was a powerful, ultra-modern one, from 2024.
Perhaps the TechTuber was pushing his luck by trying to run two Voodoo2s in SLI on the same system, next. Indeed, using his second Voodoo2, a Joytech Apollo 3D Fast II 12MB, which isn’t a perfect glitch-free runner, caused this delicately teetering concoction of hardware to topple in Windows 11.
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