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GPL - TNT Video Help

Keith Daniel

GPL - TNT Video Help

by Keith Daniel » Wed, 16 Dec 1998 04:00:00

Thank you, thank you, thank you!
What do you mean I don't have a 3Dfx card?  :)

> The problem is you don't have a 3Dfx card.  You do have a TNT however,
> and as such you'll need to download and install the beta GPL OpenGL
> rasterizer for the TNT from www.papy.com (just extract the downloaded
> zip file to your GPL directory).  This will give you an additional
> choice in the options menu for 'OpenGL'.

> - Eric



> >I have been reading your info regarding nVIDIA TNT cards to run GPL. (I
> >have little or no experience with 3d cards)
> >I seem to have a slightly different problem:

> >My system is a Dell XPS 450 (128 MB RAM) with the STB nVIDIA TNT 16MB
> >(AGP model) card and Win98.

> >I downloaded the .48 AGP reference driver, installed it and reset the
> >PC.

> >I installed the game, choosing 3dfx during setup.
> >When I run the game, the options menu reflects "none" for 3d
> accelerator
> >choice.
> >When I set it to "3dfx" I get a message that the game must be
> >re-started  for it to take effect.  I do this, but the options revert
> >back to "none".
> >When I run the game, it writes back into the ini files the non 3D
> >options.

> >This happened before I installed the .48 driver as well.


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