I tried to use this and in D3D had a frame drop to 22fps (steady as a rock
so to speak.) Usually get 36's. I run in 800x with a TNT M64 on Win98
using an Athlon 900 & 128mb ram. OpenGL ran okay, but the menus got all
screwy (the drop down prob.) If I try to go up any futher (say 1024x
everthing bogs down and menus get REALLY screwy.) So I had to delete the
detonators and reinstall. Back to normal. Is this just a prob for my
benefit or others had the same thing?
Book.
> There were two versions of an unsupported beta patch that used to be at
> Papy.com for opengl. However, I have generally got the feeling that most
of
> the non-3dfx folks have found the performance and visual quality of the
d3d
> patch to be better than the opengl. As always, everybody perceives things
> a-little differently.
> dave henrie
> > Need 'how to' on setup of GPL with OpenGL running GeForce Ultra!
> > >Keith--
> > >I'm running a Geforce2 GTS 64 meg--when I run opengl in GPL at 1280
> > >resolution, the screen is black when I exit the racing screen. Have
> > >you encountered that, and if so, how did you fix it? I would like to
> > >run OpenGL for the better visual quality over the D3D patch.
> > >Thanks in advance.
> > >Alan
> > >> On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 08:51:32 -0400, "REDLINE426"
> > >> >Supposedly DX 8.0 has 320 bugs in it. I have used 8.1 till it
expired,
> then
> > >> >went back to 8.0, (shrugs shoulders) didn't notice any difference.
> > >> >Couldn't get the download from the site above, (either to busy or MS
> shut it
> > >> >down).
> > >> >>"I STRONLGY recommend the 21.81 nVidia drivers...." Why?
> > >> >Personally I think NVIDIA (GeFarce) is crap, Voodoo or OpenGL is
much
> better
> > >> >IMAO.
> > >> I went through just about all the 3dfx and nvidia chipsets. 3dfx had
a
> head start,
> > >> then nvidia opened a can of whup-ass on 3dfx and killed them - with
> better product.
> > >> No other vendor has maintained a position at the top of the
> performance curve. The
> > >> nvidia viper era hardware was crap, TNT was adequate, GeForce and up
is
> excellent.
> > >> 3dfx were in slow motion and got left behind. The drivers have always
> been the
> > >> weakest link for nvidia (and the slow development of directx). The
> 21.81 drivers with
> > >> Windows XP are working very well on my PC - both directx and OpenGL
> work great in
> > >> GPL.
> > >> Keith.
