rec.autos.simulators

> Hi all,

> Sorry for the OT, I have been trying to sort this problem out for some
> time now but am not having any luck at any of the ng's I was hoping to
> find the solution from so came back to good ol' RAS to see if anyone
> here has any idea how to solve it.

> Basically I have a V5 5500 which I have always been pretty happy with
> for running all my sims, etc. However, I have always had the
> occasional problem when trying to view a video file (avi, mpg, rm,
> etc) whereby it plays back with green vertical lines over it. This
> problem has gotten even worse since I upgraded my system to a 1.2ghz
> CPU on a VIA KT133 mb.

> I can get around it most times by quickly changing the colour bit
> setting using the 3DFX tools resolution option as this seems to clear
> the stripes, even if after making the change I opt not to keep the
> setting. However, it is getting really frustrating and I feel there
> must be a solution somewhere.

> Hope someone here can throw some light on it for me.

>> Hi all,

>> Sorry for the OT, I have been trying to sort this problem out for some
>> time now but am not having any luck at any of the ng's I was hoping to
>> find the solution from so came back to good ol' RAS to see if anyone
>> here has any idea how to solve it.

>> Basically I have a V5 5500 which I have always been pretty happy with
>> for running all my sims, etc. However, I have always had the
>> occasional problem when trying to view a video file (avi, mpg, rm,
>> etc) whereby it plays back with green vertical lines over it. This
>> problem has gotten even worse since I upgraded my system to a 1.2ghz
>> CPU on a VIA KT133 mb.

>> I can get around it most times by quickly changing the colour bit
>> setting using the 3DFX tools resolution option as this seems to clear
>> the stripes, even if after making the change I opt not to keep the
>> setting. However, it is getting really frustrating and I feel there
>> must be a solution somewhere.

>> Hope someone here can throw some light on it for me.

>Sorry mate, can't offer any suggestions really, other than to say that I
>don't have any such problems running V5 cards on three different systems

>1.
>AMD 1333
>ASUS A7V133 MoBo
>Win2000 PRO
>DirectX8
>SP2
>Last "release" drivers from 3Dfx

>2.
>AMD 1333, oc'ed (*** rig :-)
>ASUS A7M266
>Win98SE
>DirectX8
>Last "release" drivers from 3Dfx

>3.
>P3-866
>ASUS CUBX (running at 133 FSB)
>Win2000 PRO
>DirectX8
>SP2
>Last "release" drivers from 3Dfx

>All three systems run without any special tweaks or anything, except for
>the *** rig which may have the card OC'ed if I want to play a gfx
>intensive game or something, but generally they run with "out of the
>box" settings for most of the time and I have never witnessed anything
>like this, and I got my first V5 not too long after became available
>over here, so the one in my *** rig has been carried over on a few
>upgrades now

>If you need me to look up anything in particular on either of them to
>help you get it sorted, let me know

>Beers and cheers
>(uncle) Goy

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> Thanks Goy,

> Maybe if you could let me the settings your card is running under the
> 3DFX Advanced Features, Anti-Aliasing options,etc.

> > Thanks Goy,

> > Maybe if you could let me the settings your card is running under the
> > 3DFX Advanced Features, Anti-Aliasing options,etc.

> Oki......this on my AMD/Win2k machine

> 3D

> 3D Filter Quality  - Auto
> Alpha Blending             - Auto
> AA                 - 2x
> Level of Detail            - 0
> Maximum Buffered Frames    - Default
> Mip Map Dithering  - Disable
> Z-Buffer           - Enable

> OGL

> 3D Filter Quality  - Auto
> AA Demo Key                - Disable
> Alpha Blending             - Auto
> Depth Precision    16bit   - Faster
> Depth Precision    32bit   - Faster
> AA                 - Fastest Performance
> Glide Splash Screen        - Enable
> Level of Detail            - 0
> Maximum Buffered Frames    - 1 Pending Buffer
> Mip Map Dithering  - Disable
> Rendering Depth            - Software Controlled
> Triple Buffering   - Disable
> Vsync                      - Disable

> These are all "factory default" settings of course, desktop is set to

> This PC doesn't see much *** use, on my *** PC I go by the
> settings I found on www.voodoosource.net, but when I went there to find
> the link they have shut down the site of course, and I haven't saved
> those for myself even, and with the reformat I did on my *** PC,
> those settings are now gone.....rats, so if anyone know where I can find
> those settings now, a link would be much appreciated

> Beers and cheers
> (uncle) Goy

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>    I dont know if this would be relevant or not or if anyone else had this
>problem, but Using Windows media player (sorry this was a while back) and my
>voodoo2 (monster12 meg) I would get 'xactly what you are talking about on my
>machine,

>I still have that machine, but it isnt setup right now, and I always assumed
>it was the hercules Thrilller arguing with my voodoo2 card somehow...  now I
>wonder if  it is something to do with direct x or active x or something?

>I now have a Hercules gforce-mx, but I managed to just get a voodoo5 card
>(hoping for better GPL again!)
>let me know if you figure this out...  thanks

>not any help I guess, just a FYI...

>> Hi all,

> snip
>> Basically I have a V5 5500 which I have always been pretty happy with
>> for running all my sims, etc. However, I have always had the
>> occasional problem when trying to view a video file (avi, mpg, rm,
>> etc) whereby it plays back with green vertical lines over it. This
>> problem has gotten even worse since I upgraded my system to a 1.2ghz
>> CPU on a VIA KT133 mb.

>snip

>> Thanks Goy,

>> Maybe if you could let me the settings your card is running under the
>> 3DFX Advanced Features, Anti-Aliasing options,etc.

>Oki......this on my AMD/Win2k machine

>3D

>3D Filter Quality   - Auto
>Alpha Blending              - Auto
>AA                  - 2x
>Level of Detail             - 0
>Maximum Buffered Frames     - Default
>Mip Map Dithering   - Disable
>Z-Buffer            - Enable

>OGL

>3D Filter Quality   - Auto
>AA Demo Key         - Disable
>Alpha Blending              - Auto
>Depth Precision     16bit   - Faster
>Depth Precision     32bit   - Faster
>AA                  - Fastest Performance
>Glide Splash Screen - Enable
>Level of Detail             - 0
>Maximum Buffered Frames     - 1 Pending Buffer
>Mip Map Dithering   - Disable
>Rendering Depth             - Software Controlled
>Triple Buffering    - Disable
>Vsync                       - Disable

>These are all "factory default" settings of course, desktop is set to

>This PC doesn't see much *** use, on my *** PC I go by the
>settings I found on www.voodoosource.net, but when I went there to find
>the link they have shut down the site of course, and I haven't saved
>those for myself even, and with the reformat I did on my *** PC,
>those settings are now gone.....rats, so if anyone know where I can find
>those settings now, a link would be much appreciated

> Well, I have checked these settings against my own and most were the
> same anyway but even after changing those that were different I still
> have the same problem.

> I am beginning to wonder if maybe there is something wrong with the
> card itself now...

> One thing I have also noticed today is that in the config.ini file of
> F1 2001 one of the settings under COMPONENTS is VIDEORAM=25

> I thought the V5 5500 had 64mb of video RAM so why is it only being
> reported as 25?? Does this indicate a problem or am I not
> understanding it correctly.

> Anybody else with a V5 5500 and F1 2001 I would be grateful if you
> would check this for me so I can see whether there is a problem here.

> Also if you could let me know what results you get after running the
> f1config.exe file I would be very grateful.

> TIA

> Peter

> >> Thanks Goy,

> >> Maybe if you could let me the settings your card is running under the
> >> 3DFX Advanced Features, Anti-Aliasing options,etc.

> >Oki......this on my AMD/Win2k machine

> >3D

> >3D Filter Quality - Auto
> >Alpha Blending - Auto
> >AA - 2x
> >Level of Detail - 0
> >Maximum Buffered Frames - Default
> >Mip Map Dithering - Disable
> >Z-Buffer - Enable

> >OGL

> >3D Filter Quality - Auto
> >AA Demo Key - Disable
> >Alpha Blending - Auto
> >Depth Precision 16bit - Faster
> >Depth Precision 32bit - Faster
> >AA - Fastest Performance
> >Glide Splash Screen - Enable
> >Level of Detail - 0
> >Maximum Buffered Frames - 1 Pending Buffer
> >Mip Map Dithering - Disable
> >Rendering Depth - Software Controlled
> >Triple Buffering - Disable
> >Vsync - Disable

> >These are all "factory default" settings of course, desktop is set to

> >This PC doesn't see much *** use, on my *** PC I go by the
> >settings I found on www.voodoosource.net, but when I went there to find
> >the link they have shut down the site of course, and I haven't saved
> >those for myself even, and with the reformat I did on my *** PC,
> >those settings are now gone.....rats, so if anyone know where I can find
> >those settings now, a link would be much appreciated