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F1 2001 & V3000

GTX_SlotCa

F1 2001 & V3000

by GTX_SlotCa » Mon, 28 Jan 2002 02:49:45

I installed F1 2001 on my son's computer with a Voodoo3 3000 video card. It
has DX8.1 installed, but the game says it won't play because there are "no
DX8 video adapters found". Does anybody know if there is a DX8 driver
available for this card?

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R A Wrigh

F1 2001 & V3000

by R A Wrigh » Mon, 28 Jan 2002 05:40:08

I read that only Voodoo 5 recognises DX8 and if you read in the read me file
on the EA Sports cd I think it has some reference to there as well

Regards

Bob


tee-hol

F1 2001 & V3000

by tee-hol » Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:29:11



 I may be wrong but don't think F1-2001 works with Voodoo-3, the
Voodoo-5 is supposed to though.

 The video driver would be the lastest/last 3dfx Voodoo3 drivers
(which support DX8.0 at least). The last drivers I ran (file name)
were,  

v3-w9x-1.06.00.exe

 easy to find with a Yahoo/Google search.

Dav

F1 2001 & V3000

by Dav » Tue, 29 Jan 2002 00:06:44

I asked a similar Q a week back.  The couple of answers I received indicate
that it's a no-go.  So, now I have to buy a $100 vid card to take advantage of
the $19.99 deal I got on the game :-O

Which card?  Well, I'm leaning toward either a GF2 Ti  64MB.   Others have
commented on how the GF4's are just around the corner and expect the price of
GF3's to drop accordingly.

Goy Larse

F1 2001 & V3000

by Goy Larse » Tue, 29 Jan 2002 00:48:03


> I installed F1 2001 on my son's computer with a Voodoo3 3000 video card. It
> has DX8.1 installed, but the game says it won't play because there are "no
> DX8 video adapters found". Does anybody know if there is a DX8 driver
> available for this card?

This place

http://www.omegacorner.com/3dfx.htm

has some newer drivers for V3/4/5 cards, I have not tested them myself
though, so can't say if they're any good or not, well Scott Husted would
tell you all that I couldn't say even I had tested them, but we all know
how much his word counts...:-)

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centra

F1 2001 & V3000

by centra » Wed, 30 Jan 2002 15:40:42

Tried those before. No DX8 in the V3 setup. It could be the card just won't
do it, but I don't know why.  Wait.... I while back I used V5500 drivers
with a V3 and it worked (except for the FSAA stuff, of  course). Maybe it
would support DX8 with those drivers.

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> > I installed F1 2001 on my son's computer with a Voodoo3 3000 video card.
It
> > has DX8.1 installed, but the game says it won't play because there are
"no
> > DX8 video adapters found". Does anybody know if there is a DX8 driver
> > available for this card?

> This place

> http://www.omegacorner.com/3dfx.htm

> has some newer drivers for V3/4/5 cards, I have not tested them myself
> though, so can't say if they're any good or not, well Scott Husted would
> tell you all that I couldn't say even I had tested them, but we all know
> how much his word counts...:-)

> Beers and cheers
> (uncle) Goy

> "The Pits" http://www.theuspits.com/

> * Spam is for losers who can't get business any other way *
> "Spamkiller"    http://www.spamkiller.com

Goy Larse

F1 2001 & V3000

by Goy Larse » Thu, 31 Jan 2002 07:16:00


> Tried those before. No DX8 in the V3 setup. It could be the card just won't
> do it, but I don't know why.  Wait.... I while back I used V5500 drivers
> with a V3 and it worked (except for the FSAA stuff, of  course). Maybe it
> would support DX8 with those drivers.

Really ?

Didn't know you could do that even, not that I have any systems with a
V3 that I use for *** anymore, but I'm sure some people could find
that useful to squeeze some more life out of an aging system

Personally I'm holding on to my V5's for a bit longer :-)

Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy

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Ian Bel

F1 2001 & V3000

by Ian Bel » Fri, 01 Feb 2002 08:01:50

This one was answered a little way down guys. Unfortunately, the Voodoo 3
series can't handle the default texture size that the game requires. So
unless someone has managed to compress all the textures to 256X256, I don't
think it'll work.



> > Tried those before. No DX8 in the V3 setup. It could be the card just
won't
> > do it, but I don't know why.  Wait.... I while back I used V5500 drivers
> > with a V3 and it worked (except for the FSAA stuff, of  course). Maybe
it
> > would support DX8 with those drivers.

> Really ?

> Didn't know you could do that even, not that I have any systems with a
> V3 that I use for *** anymore, but I'm sure some people could find
> that useful to squeeze some more life out of an aging system

> Personally I'm holding on to my V5's for a bit longer :-)

> Beers and cheers
> (uncle) Goy

> http://www.racesimcentral.net/
> http://www.racesimcentral.net/

> "A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke"
> --Groucho Marx--


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