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New Voodoo3 drivers worth the upgrade!

David Montan

New Voodoo3 drivers worth the upgrade!

by David Montan » Tue, 09 Jan 2001 00:26:00

Yesterday I upgraded my V3 2000 drivers from 1.04 to 1.07; I was pretty
surprised by the improvement.  In GPL at Monaco (full field, mirrors to cars
and track, all objects, 640x480, detail about one quarter) at the start with
1.04 I got 19-20fps.  With 1.07, I get 27.
My system:
Celeron 466
128 megs RAM
Voodoo3 2000

I'm hoping this will be enough to tie me over until WSC, F1RC, or at least
N4 are out before I do a CPU and video card upgrade,
David

Eldre

New Voodoo3 drivers worth the upgrade!

by Eldre » Tue, 09 Jan 2001 09:24:05



>Yesterday I upgraded my V3 2000 drivers from 1.04 to 1.07; I was pretty
>surprised by the improvement.  In GPL at Monaco (full field, mirrors to cars
>and track, all objects, 640x480, detail about one quarter) at the start with
>1.04 I got 19-20fps.  With 1.07, I get 27.
>My system:
>Celeron 466
>128 megs RAM
>Voodoo3 2000

>I'm hoping this will be enough to tie me over until WSC, F1RC, or at least
>N4 are out before I do a CPU and video card upgrade,
>David

How do you tell what version drivers you have?  My driver files 'detail' says
ver 4.12 - THAT can't be right...

Eldred
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David Montan

New Voodoo3 drivers worth the upgrade!

by David Montan » Tue, 09 Jan 2001 10:01:51

The 1.07 was from the website, under "details" I now have 4.12.011.0666 with
a release date of 11-10-2000.  I'm pretty sure my old drivers had a release
date of 6/2000.  I got the drivers from www.3dfxgamers.com  Hope this helps,
David


"David

> >Yesterday I upgraded my V3 2000 drivers from 1.04 to 1.07; I was pretty
> >surprised by the improvement.  In GPL at Monaco (full field, mirrors to
cars
> >and track, all objects, 640x480, detail about one quarter) at the start
with
> >1.04 I got 19-20fps.  With 1.07, I get 27.
> >My system:
> >Celeron 466
> >128 megs RAM
> >Voodoo3 2000

> >I'm hoping this will be enough to tie me over until WSC, F1RC, or at
least
> >N4 are out before I do a CPU and video card upgrade,
> >David

> How do you tell what version drivers you have?  My driver files 'detail'
says
> ver 4.12 - THAT can't be right...

> Eldred
> --
> Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999
> Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett
> GPL F1 hcp. +28.80...F2 +151.26...F3 hcp. +373.73

> Never argue with an idiot.  He brings you down to his level, then beats
you
> with experience...
> Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

bph..

New Voodoo3 drivers worth the upgrade!

by bph.. » Tue, 09 Jan 2001 10:11:04

If you go to the 3dfx gamers site, then drivers, then archives you
should be able  to tell  by the release date and/or the versions of the
included components.



news.ops.worldnet.att.net>, "David


> >Yesterday I upgraded my V3 2000 drivers from 1.04 to 1.07; I was
pretty
> >surprised by the improvement.  In GPL at Monaco (full field, mirrors
to cars
> >and track, all objects, 640x480, detail about one quarter) at the
start with
> >1.04 I got 19-20fps.  With 1.07, I get 27.
> >My system:
> >Celeron 466
> >128 megs RAM
> >Voodoo3 2000

> >I'm hoping this will be enough to tie me over until WSC, F1RC, or at
least
> >N4 are out before I do a CPU and video card upgrade,
> >David

> How do you tell what version drivers you have?  My driver
files 'detail' says
> ver 4.12 - THAT can't be right...

> Eldred
> --
> Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999
> Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett
> GPL F1 hcp. +28.80...F2 +151.26...F3 hcp. +373.73

> Never argue with an idiot.  He brings you down to his level, then
beats you
> with experience...
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Tim Elhaj

New Voodoo3 drivers worth the upgrade!

by Tim Elhaj » Tue, 09 Jan 2001 10:47:46


> How do you tell what version drivers you have?  My driver files 'detail'
says
> ver 4.12 - THAT can't be right...

The version number he's referring to is found in the name of the exe that
the drivers are archived and distrubuted with. For example, when you
download the v. 1.07 drivers you would get a file named: v3-w9x-1.07.00.exe.

I have no idea why they do that and then have a completely different and
utterly confusing number in the 3dfx tools control panel.

Eldre

New Voodoo3 drivers worth the upgrade!

by Eldre » Wed, 10 Jan 2001 14:01:55



>The 1.07 was from the website, under "details" I now have 4.12.011.0666 with
>a release date of 11-10-2000.  I'm pretty sure my old drivers had a release
>date of 6/2000.  I got the drivers from www.3dfxgamers.com  Hope this helps,
>David


>> How do you tell what version drivers you have?  My driver files 'detail'
>says
>> ver 4.12 - THAT can't be right...

Hmm...I knew mine had to be very old - they're dated in 1999...<g>  I
downloaded drivers a couple of weeks ago, but I didn't want to***around
with updating before our GP race.  Didn't matter - my system found something
ELSE to***up...<g>

Eldred
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Homepage - http://www.racesimcentral.net/~epickett
GPL F1 hcp. +28.80...F2 +151.26...F3 hcp. +373.73

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