I am so enjoying FU3+FU2 in winXP and with a voodoo5 that I installed a standalone FU2. It works perfect except that the scattered and broken clouds don't display properly with the driver I have (AmigaMerlin 3.1). The transparecies on the clouds show as black rectangles. If I keep the 3dfx driver that winXP installs automatically, the clouds display properly. But with this driver I can't get 3dfx Tools to work to apply antialiasing. Any users of voodoo5 have any solution?

As a previous Voodoo 5 card user I do remember experimenting with various drivers, among those the AmigaMerlin drivers. I settled for standard Voodoo 5 drivers eventually. Anyway, by today's standards the Voodoo 5 card is quite "under-powered" and our vintage sim remains to be quite resource hungry when we expect performance and beautiful rendering all at the same time. In fact, the demise of Looking Glass may very well be attributed to the mismatch between the sim's hardware requirements and the computer hardware available at the time. Can you image Naji-style rain and thunderstorms as well as high scenery resolution and snappy performance back in the late 90s? When you buy a sim and learn that you're far from being able to run it properly you'll be inclined to dump it for one that does work on your current state-of-the-art rig. So, these days I enjoy FU III with everything maxed out by running it on a 2008 high-end computer. Today I bought the most powerful Nvidea card this computer's power supply will accept and expect even better performance. What I'm saying is, while Voodoo 5 did complement FU III well in '97 there are way more powerful cards that do a better job today. Nvidea cards present the option of running the app named "nHancer" that will force all kinds of advanced smoothing and filtering to sims that don't instruct the card to run AA or anisotropic as "native" commands. As we all know, FU III doesn't instruct the video card to do anything at all. While 3dfx tools presented the option of instructing the Voodoo card to make FU III look prettier there are more powerful cards that can be instructed to do so. Anyway, the 3dfx driver that Win XP installs automatically may not be the best one--I do remember good 3dfx functionality and AA with the one I settled for. I'd do a search for Voodoo 5 drivers and try another standard one. It could be that the ones that worked well for Win98 won't work for more recent operating systems though.