Biostar Venus 3D
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My very first Voodoo Rush! Despite the Voodoo Rush is not the best solution 3dfx made, I've always liked the boards somehow. The Voodoo Rush is known to be a tad slower than the Voodoo Graphics (which is older) and the 2D chip is not quite powerful. With high resolutions the RAMDAC even fails to deliver steady images! Drivers are not that best updated and the board itself doesn't run in every PC out there. It's quite a picky board.

For sure; I wonder why I like the Voodoo Rush considering it was not a decent board. Maybe it's because of the fact that this was 3dfx' first 'multimedia' board with 2D/3D and TV-out functions. Too bad my first Voodoo Rush has no TV-out chip meaning the TV-out connector is sitting and waiting for nothing ;).

Specifications
Chipset
SST-96
PCB date
9751
Chip date
9751
RAM
6MB EDO 25NS (tm)
Interface
PCI
Condition
OEM
TV functions?
Yes
Engineering sample?
No
RAMDAC
Integrated
Board revision
1.1

Drivers

MS-DOS
Recommended driver: V3.01.00 (Download here) (Download dual-planar if your board consists of two PCB's)


Windows 95/98/ME
Recommended driver: V3.01.00. For alternatives try third-party '3dfx Mancuso Mix 2.0' and 'Mr. F's modified Driver' (Download here) Unpack the drivers. Run the EXE file and read the README.TXT for instructions.