This is not strange. You have a voodoo, they are known to be not DX compatible and not nearly as fast with DX as with OpenGL as they were developed for Glide which was "replaced" by OpenGL later.
People that can't sync mod (ie have no actual version), might not be able to use precompiled modules anyway as they will have the wrong module version to link with in which case the compiler throws an error.
People that don't know about drivers etc better shouldn't start programming at all and first learn the "PC usage basics" before starting "teaching the pc new stuff" ;-)
but in general, they will do fine with DX default on Windows as most cards work better with DX than OpenGL (only Voodoo are useless in DX and NVidias have been better optimized for OpenGL due to iD software beeing the writer of NV graphical benchmarks ... aka Doom3 ;-))
People that can't sync mod (ie have no actual version), might not be able to use precompiled modules anyway as they will have the wrong module version to link with in which case the compiler throws an error.
People that don't know about drivers etc better shouldn't start programming at all and first learn the "PC usage basics" before starting "teaching the pc new stuff" ;-)
but in general, they will do fine with DX default on Windows as most cards work better with DX than OpenGL (only Voodoo are useless in DX and NVidias have been better optimized for OpenGL due to iD software beeing the writer of NV graphical benchmarks ... aka Doom3 ;-))