Voodoo Banshee and missing health!!! HELP!
 

I have the 4.12.01.1222 drivers but the bars are still hidden! Also scapex won't run because of "error initializing graphics library". What am I supposed to do? Please help--this isn't on the troubleshooting board!
Using Diamond Monster Fusion card with v 4.12.01.1222

Well they said my Voodoo2 can't do scapex because it requires it to do 3d stuff in a window, which a voodoo2 can't do. It might be the same for your card (I know nothing about 3d cards so i couldn't tell you hehe). May I ask you, before you got the new drivers installed, did you get the Error initializing graphics library (-1) error when you tried to enter the game itself?

No, I never had that problem. Only the graphics library one.

I have the same problem - missing mana and health bars with my banshee (creative 3d blaster banshee) using the same reference drivers (4.12.01.1222). I even have tried to use older drivers, but isn't a cure. I have no idea how to cure the problem. http://www.veforums.com/frown.gif May be it's 3dfx's problem with drivers (they released nothing for banshee/windows 9* since february), may be it's Shiny's problem with a wrapper, but anyway the game is unplayable without these bars. http://www.veforums.com/frown.gif

That is correct Distressed: Voodoo2's can not run Scapex or any other Windows app that required 3D in a window.

-joby

Lack of "scapex" isn't a problem while lack of health/mana bars is. Look at the topic of the thread, please. What we are trying to say is that using the drivers for banshee which are specified in readme.txt and troubleshooting section on Sacrifice official website doesn't cure the problem.

I myself think that Shiny can't just ignore all owners of voodoo cards who have similar problems and should contact 3Dfx to get explanation and make them release new drivers OR should make a patch which will make these bars showing with usage of other methods which will work with voodoos. It's just too much people on the globe who have these voodoos inside their PCs. What you guys from Shiny think about it?

Now, i use a voodoo myself and have problems, but i really think this is more of a problem of 3dfx's and microsoft's. it's not like they're using glide. if that were the case, then shiny would be to blame. shiny wrote the game to use the direct3d version7 API's. Voodoo and Direct3D have never gotten along. They're basically competitors! (glide vs d3d). 3dfx needs to get their act together and write some real drivers for once.

So..what are we saying.. is there anyway to fix this or not? I too have a creative Banshee using the Refrence drivers. All my characters are missing body parts, no heath bars and I can't read my Mana either?

I have a banshee as well. I still have the missing health and manna bars problem, and I used to have the missing limbs problem. For some reason the troubleshooting guide tells you to disable some triangle setting in the graphics options. I enabled it, and that fixed the limb problems. I now have limbs. *shrugs*

Likewise... voodoo 3 card, no health, no mana, no health or mana for my troops unless there is no background behind them. I waited 5 years for the game and can't play it on a one year old computer...