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Hi there !
After reading a lot about how much better ther F1rs is with an 3dfx card I
last night finally installed my new Stingray 128/3D with an Voddoo rush chip
on.
To my dissapointment after complitely removal of F1rs and reinstalling it ,
I get the message that I don not have an Voddoo card so it will install the
Dirett 3D version.I also reinstalled Win 95 but it still couldnt find it. I
tried some other 3DFX games which worked perfect.

Please help

Magnus.....

Make sure that you have Glide.dll in your system folder.

Hi there

I had the same problem.  It seems that f1rs looks for two .dlls which if
you have upgraded your vodoo rush drivers get deleted.  If you want the two
missing .dlls drop me a line and I will mail them to you.

All the best

Melg

I'm not 100% sure but I think F1RS looks for a file called SST1INIT.DLL,
just like e.g. 3Dfx POD demo does. SST1INIT.DLL doesn't come with
the latest Glide but you can get it from the latest M3D drivers package.
Copying that file into windows\system folder solved my 3Dfx recognition
problems for both F1RS and POD demo.

Hena

You're 100% sure but don't know where you picked it up?!?!?
I did some testing and now I'm 100% sure that F1RS looks for sst1init.dll
rather than glide.dll.

You really shoud check your facts before posting something as 100%
sure ... furthermore, there's no such thing as glide2.dll ...

Hena

That document said that if your 3dfx card is not being reccognized it is
because you are using new Orchid or 3dfx reference drivers. And you need
to put glide.dll and sst1init.dll back into your system directory.

Listen here fool, the facts were checked. You make it sound like life &
death or something. The flie is glide2x.dll. And when you install the latest
reference drivers, glide.dll and sst1init.dll apparently get removed. Wow
that is *WAY* different than glide2.dll. Lamer.

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Don't know how you can be so sure.

Here's a simple test. Leave SST1INIT.DLL where it is & remove glide.dll -
try & install F1rs & it fails to recognise you have a voodoo card & only
allows D3D. It is clear that F1rs does indeed look for glide.dll as a way of
recognising the presence of a voodoo card.

This was well documented after the release of Orchid's 3.0 drivers whose
install routine removed glide.dll and failed to replace it (they have since
released a modified set with the error corrected).

Regards

DM

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- PC Bios Message

However, if you remove SST1INIT.DLL and leave GLIDE.DLL , F1rs still
fails to recognise my Voodoo card ... So is it safe to say that F1rs looks
for both files ... ?

On Sun, 15 Feb 1998 16:21:46 GMT, "Hena Hakkanen"

Cheers,
Richard

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On Thu, 12 Feb 1998 08:34:37 +0100, "Magnus S?nnergren"

hopy this was some Help ..Cool Games ....

Deadly...