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I have just upgraded my system from a 3dfx voodoo3 3000 to a Geoforce2 GTS.
I am running GPL with the Opengl patch and it runs fine with a solid 36 FPS
until I exit a race and then the screen drops down about 2/3 so the upped
part is black ?? I am using the Nvidea 778 WHQL drivers on Win 98 se.

Anyone got GPL to run succesufully with a GTS ?

Any help will be appreciated

Andy

Erik

GTS.

btw I do a little bit of D3D programming, and even the 6.50 drivers can do
anisotropic filtering when a program requests it, so I'll try enabling it
with the 6.50 drivers first.  My own programs have an anisotropic filtering
option, and it does work, and improves texture filtering clarity by a good
30%.  This idea that it was only supported from 12.xx onwards is either a
myth, or someone somewhere got misquoted.

Anyway, thanks again :)

I can imagine it would look even better with a GF3 since it supports two
better kinds of anisotropic filtering as well.

I will soon be taking delivery of a new PC, with a GF2 Ultra (Herc Prophet
II). Can anybody give me the definitive answer to what the current drivers
are? nvidia.com has Detonator3 version 6.50, but I hear of 7.x, 10.x, 12.x,
etc.

Has nVidia officially released anything newer than 6.50 or are they ALL beta
and/or leaked drivers?

Thanks!

BTW Has anyone got GPL running with the Asus 3D glasses? I haven't got these
working at all (I get funny flickering, but nothing like 3D) in any program.
I know the glasses probably a bit of a gimmick right now, but I'd still like
to give them a bit of a try.

Ryan

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Faster-than-light travel is indeed possible, though research into economical
methods has been systematically suppressed by headlamp manufacturers
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Thanks in advance,
Simon.

It doesnt work when FSAA is turned on.  I would really like it to work as
you can use FSAA with the opengl rast. through VROC.

All the best
Ash

| Just wondering what drivers you use?  I had problems getting the OpenGL
| renderer to work right with GPL.  On switching screen resolutions (like
when
| coming back to the menus after driving) the menus would look all wrong,
like
| they were being drawn in the wrong place, so the top half of the screen
| would be black.  I'd really like to try OpenGL though if you know how to
get
| it working.
|

Is the menu problem not related to refresh rate at all? Do you see any
screen flicker? Most monitors base index their position settings by the
refresh rate. Have you tried the 16/32 bit colour forcing options (not sure
why these could be a problem)?

I've tried GPL in both Direct3D and OpenGL and the OpenGL seems to look
vastly superior, although I haven't tried to examine exactly why. I *think*
it's a filtering or colour depth issue. D3D looks cartoonish in comparison.
Maybe D3D will look as good with anisotropic filtering, though...

Ryan

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Faster-than-light travel is indeed possible, though research into economical
methods has been systematically suppressed by headlamp manufacturers
and their agents in the Congress.
        --Todd Zwillich

I'll try those 7.17 drivers and have a mess round with the OpenGL settings,
thanks again.
Simon.