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GPL and LATEST Voodoo3 drivers

Wolfgang Manouse

GPL and LATEST Voodoo3 drivers

by Wolfgang Manouse » Mon, 10 May 1999 04:00:00

Anyonelse installed the latest/newest V3 drivers from the 3dfx side yet ? I
did so yesterday and I am not to thrilled with it, the texture problems are
back, even if I limit the texture memory - anyone else tried it and figured
out what is wrong?

thx
WM

john moor

GPL and LATEST Voodoo3 drivers

by john moor » Mon, 10 May 1999 04:00:00

Thats why I run an 8 meg thriller, faster than 2 voodoo's. Should mention GPL is
all I run.
JM

> On Sun, 9 May 1999 17:11:29 -0700, "Wolfgang Manousek"

> >Anyonelse installed the latest/newest V3 drivers from the 3dfx side yet ? I
> >did so yesterday and I am not to thrilled with it, the texture problems are
> >back, even if I limit the texture memory - anyone else tried it and figured
> >out what is wrong?

> >thx
> >WM

> Wolfgang,

> I'm sorry to hear this.  These drivers were released for the almighty
> Quake 3 Arena game so I guess everything else must suffer. I for one
> am damn tired of the whole video card community revolving around Quake
> and its derivatives. I sure wish Papy had as much influence as Carmack
> and company..

> Jeff Haas

Jeffrey Ha

GPL and LATEST Voodoo3 drivers

by Jeffrey Ha » Tue, 11 May 1999 04:00:00

On Sun, 9 May 1999 17:11:29 -0700, "Wolfgang Manousek"


>Anyonelse installed the latest/newest V3 drivers from the 3dfx side yet ? I
>did so yesterday and I am not to thrilled with it, the texture problems are
>back, even if I limit the texture memory - anyone else tried it and figured
>out what is wrong?

>thx
>WM

Wolfgang,

I'm sorry to hear this.  These drivers were released for the almighty
Quake 3 Arena game so I guess everything else must suffer. I for one
am damn tired of the whole video card community revolving around Quake
and its derivatives. I sure wish Papy had as much influence as Carmack
and company..

Jeff Haas

Andrew MacPhers

GPL and LATEST Voodoo3 drivers

by Andrew MacPhers » Tue, 11 May 1999 04:00:00

I think the 3dfx info makes it plain enough these updated drivers are a quick hack for
Q3. FWIW, the voodoo2 tweaked drivers work fine. Default gamma's dropped for me,
but everything else is fine. It doesn't surprise me that the V3 drivers are still problematic,
it's still in the teething trouble zone even without this quick Q3 fix muddying the water.

Andrew McP... waiting for the bleeding edge to clot a bit

G. Patric

GPL and LATEST Voodoo3 drivers

by G. Patric » Tue, 11 May 1999 04:00:00



>:Thats why I run an 8 meg thriller, faster than 2 voodoo's. Should mention GPL is
>:all I run.
>:JM
>:


Hmmm. Could have sworn that GPL is Glide only, and as such would only
be accelerated by a 3DFX card.
G. Patricks
Eric T. Busc

GPL and LATEST Voodoo3 drivers

by Eric T. Busc » Tue, 11 May 1999 04:00:00

Out of the box GPL supports Glide (for 3dfx cards) and RRedline (for
Rendition).  More recently there has been a beta OpenGL rasterizer
(mainly for the TNT though any fully hardware accelerated ICD should
work) available from www.papy.com

Eric


Randy Cassid

GPL and LATEST Voodoo3 drivers

by Randy Cassid » Tue, 11 May 1999 04:00:00



Amen, brother.  :-)

Randy

Chris Schlette

GPL and LATEST Voodoo3 drivers

by Chris Schlette » Tue, 11 May 1999 04:00:00

Yeah, well.....FPS has been in the driver's seat as far as graphics goes.
Not necessarily in terms of gameplay, but they do have push that graphic
edge quite a bit.  Sorry, but GPL just doesn't compare to Q3 in terms of
graphics... ;)




> > I'm sorry to hear this.  These drivers were released for the almighty
> > Quake 3 Arena game so I guess everything else must suffer. I for one
> > am damn tired of the whole video card community revolving around
> Quake
> > and its derivatives.

> Amen, brother.  :-)

> Randy

Tilu

GPL and LATEST Voodoo3 drivers

by Tilu » Tue, 11 May 1999 04:00:00

Helloooooooo

We been talking about V3....
Do you think that your old and rusty Thriller runs better then V3 ? no
waaaay !
I race in 1280x1024 and i have 36fps ALL the time...faster huh ?

Bye
Tilus


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