I don't know if you have already come across a solution for your
problem ( I haven't looked at this ng for a few days now, too busy...
work, work...) but this is typical of the a incorrect version of
Glide2x.dll for your current vid card. For the V3 3000 Agp the best
glide to use is the 2.61, the 2.60 is also good but the latter
slightly more stable under heavy load.
Have a look into you windows\system folder and see what version you
have. In any case I have sent you the 2.61 glide and that works for
sure. I have another 2 pc's, one with a V1, another with 2 V2 SLI and
another with a V3. For the V2 the best glide I found is actually the
2.53 as you rightly said, and I am still using it on my other pc.
You may also try these settings in your registry key
Local_machine\software\3dfx interactive\glide\voodoo3\glide for better
performance. Just backup this key from your registry before you make
any changes so you can return to the original state in case your
machine isn't happy with the setup.
Also note that the SST_GRXCLK is set to 175 mhz as my V3 is
overclocked. You can simply omit this line and the V3 will be left to
its original speed.
Copy and paste the text below into notepad and save the file with a
.reg extension, then right click on it and click merge. Reboot your
pc, start GPL and you should have better performance on all glide
games!
These settings are for the V3 only!
"SST_FT_CLK_DEL"=dword:00000004
"SST_TF0_CLK_DEL"=dword:00000006
"SST_TF1_CLK_DEL"=dword:00000006
"SST_VIN_CLKDEL"=dword:00000001
"SST_VOUT_CLKDEL"=dword:00000000
"SSTH3_GGAMMA"="1.55"
"SST_GRXCLK"=dword:000000af
"FX_GLIDE_ALLOC_COLOR"=dword:00000002
"FX_GLIDE_LOD_DITHER"=dword:00000001
"SSTH3_REFRESH_1280x1024"=dword:00000055
"SSTH3_FASTPCIRD"=dword:00000001
"SSTH3_FASTMEM"=dword:00000001
"SST_SCREENREFRESH"=dword:00000055
"SSTH3_RGAMMA"="1.55"
"SSTH3_BGAMMA"="1.55"
"SSTH3_REFRESH_1024x768"=dword:00000064
If you're not sure about this you can get V3 utilities that will do
this for you.
Cheers.
Mauricio.
>My friend called me after he installed GPL, and he wondered why GPL
>looked so much better on my pc. That was because I have all those
>addons installed, with better graphics etc. So i copied my gpl
>directory over his GPL directory so he would have the same addons as
>me. I have VoodooII SLI, and still have glide 2.53 in my gpl dir, it
>works great, and I had problems with newer glide versions.
>But now you say that I don't have to limit to 2mb. Hmm..
>I have the latest drivers (from 3dfx.com, release date 27 jan),
>reinstalled them again, didn't help.
>What drivers are you using?
>Andre
>On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 09:35 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
>>> A friend of mine bought a new pc with a Voodoo3 3000 AGP card.
>>> I installed GPL for him, and in 640 resolution everything is ok, but
>>> in any higher resolution all the textures are really corrupt.
>>> I installed dx7a, the latest v3 drivers from 3dfx.com (release date 27
>>> jan) and the 1.2 patch for GPL.
>>> First I even couldn't run the game in 3dfx mode, but after I deleted
>>> the glide2x.dll file (v 2.53) that problem was solved.
>>> Anyone have any idea how I can solve this problem for him?
>>> Now he has a brand new PIII 600mhz, a voodoo3 card and the poor guy
>>> can't run higher than 640 :)
>>> Andre
>>Sounds odd - where did the Glide v2.53 file come from - it's way out of
>>date. You should definately be running Glide, not OpenGL. Plus you don't
>>have to limit to 2Mb as Ilkka suggests. I'd check the 3DFX drivers again.
>>Cheers,
>>Steve.
