Voodoo 3 3000 load times

[silentdragon48]

Alright, I know there is a thread about this topic already, but I wanted to see if I could get some specific help to my issue.

 

First System Specs:

AMD Athl T-bird 1333 (266 FSB)

Mo/Bo Abit KR7A 133 with double bus rate for 266 FSB

SB Live! 5.1

Voodoo 3 3000 16 MB

Maxtor 5200 RPM 40 GB hdd

Creative! 52x IDE CD-ROM

Win Me (god only knows which revision)

 

Level load times:

1st load: ~30 - 40 secs. depending upon size of level

load after death/stupidity on my part: ???

 

Problem:

I die, (problem 1), then I try to reload the last save, and the game loads 25% (according to little blue bar on bottom of screen) and just sits there. Now, I will sit there and wait until I have timed out a minute and check to see if computer is hung, the numlock light doesn't respond to num-lock key press, so I alt-Tab out of game and get a nice little error saying JK2 has crashed 3dfxOGL.dll. Now, what the h*ll happened?? Do I wait for longer than a minute, because that seems to be the running idea, or do I just choke down another $153 (that I don't have) for an ATI Radeon 8500?

Funny thing is that when I reload JK2 (don't even reboot machine) the game runs perfectly fine again, that is until I die again. I can load the game once from the menu, but if I have to reload the game I have to close JK2, reopen JK2 and reload level, which gets mildly irritating.

 

Any help would be nice.

Thanks

~SilentDragon48

[teleguy]

Do you use the wickedgl drivers?