I found in the forgotten drawer Voodoo2 12mb. I would try it in my G4 DD 2003 under MacOS9, but this card is not recognized in system profiler. I put necessary extensions to the system extensions folder but no luck. Do have I any chance to get it to work?
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2013, March 23 - 1:59pm
#1
Voodoo II in G4 MDD
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2013, March 23 - 11:10pm
#2
It will work, but the Voodoo2 does nothing but 3D, that means you need to LOOPBACK the regular video output INTO the Voodoo2 card, and then run the cable OUT of the Voodoo2 card to the monitor. This video regularly PASSES THROUGH the card, until you launch a 3D app that uses Glide. I had it running under OS 9.1 on my 7300/200 Power Macintosh, so it should work fine for you. Hope you can find a compatible loopback cable.
2013, March 24 - 1:13am
#3
If you have some other OpenGL or Quickdraw 3D driver (ATI/nVidia) in your extensions folder, the Voodoo might not be used.
You would be better off with two monitors, because some Quickdraw 3D apps (like Nanosaur) put the 2D part on one screen and the 3D part on the other.
It doesn't like Gerbils, either: you can't see the track editor to move the track around.
Sometimes, Quickdraw 3D doesn't work right with the Voodoo2 anyway. Play Nanosaur on a 12M Voodoo2 card, and the textures will be a mess, but with an 8M card, it's fine.
2013, March 27 - 3:17pm
#4
Ok, it works now 
The Voodoo extensions don't change anything in system profiler because card does not have any rom chip Most important for me is visible in VPC3