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by **Cane** » Wed, 27 May 1998 04:00:00

Hi, I have a Guillemot Maxi Gamer 3DFX card, in a P200MMX with 48mb ram, S3
Virge DX.

When I run Native 3DFX(Glide) stuff I have no problems, but when I run
Direct 3D
(or Direct Draw) games, when I am given the choice of Graphics card to use I
always choose the 3DFX one.

As soon as the game goes into 3D mode the computer hangs with a black
screen.

The choice I have is for my S3 card or "mm3DFX".
I think that the mm3DFX should actually be dd3DFX. Is this a different
driver, where can I get it from.

Until this is fixed, I am unable to play a lot of stuff, please help me.

Thanks,
David Cane

by **Cane** » Wed, 27 May 1998 04:00:00

I know this is a repeat of my other post but this time I have included a
query about driver names

by **Mike Wes** » Thu, 28 May 1998 04:00:00

> Hi, I have a Guillemot Maxi Gamer 3DFX card, in a P200MMX with 48mb ram, S3
> Virge DX.

> When I run Native 3DFX(Glide) stuff I have no problems, but when I run
> Direct 3D
> (or Direct Draw) games, when I am given the choice of Graphics card to use I
> always choose the 3DFX one.

> As soon as the game goes into 3D mode the computer hangs with a black
> screen.

> The choice I have is for my S3 card or "mm3DFX".
> I think that the mm3DFX should actually be dd3DFX. Is this a different
> driver, where can I get it from.

> Until this is fixed, I am unable to play a lot of stuff, please help me.

> Thanks,
> David Cane

I'm running a Guillemot Maxi Gamer on a P166MMX overdrive with 48 meg RAM
and an ATI Mach64 2D card. Frankly the drivers you can download from
guillmot appear to be pants, so I'm using the generic 3Dfx D3D driver
which you can get from www.3Dfx.com
That works fine on my system.

Mike West

by **Cane** » Thu, 28 May 1998 04:00:00

Well, Guillemot have replied to me and told me that the 3D funtions of my S3
card are trying to take over the D3D apps that the 3DFX card is assigned.

Does this only happen with the Guillemot Card + S3 Virge?

If so, where can I get a patch or will I have to change one of my Cards?

by **Morta** » Fri, 29 May 1998 04:00:00

>Well, Guillemot have replied to me and told me that the 3D funtions of my S3
>card are trying to take over the D3D apps that the 3DFX card is assigned.

>Does this only happen with the Guillemot Card + S3 Virge?

>If so, where can I get a patch or will I have to change one of my Cards?

I haven't heard of any patches but there is a utility called 3DCC that
you can get at http://www.bjorn3d.com/download/3dfiles1.html. It's a
very small program that lets you assign whether your primary display
adaper or secondary display adapter will handle the Direct 3d calls. I
have a Stealth 2 and an Orchid R3d and I have found it to be quite
useful, since by default my 3DFX wants all the direct 3D, but I can
get 800x600 resolution from the Steath, which is nice. It's also fun
to toggle between the two and see the differences between the two.
Give it a try, I think it should clear up your problem.
Chris

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by **Andrew Carrol** » Fri, 29 May 1998 04:00:00

This is a problem with all 3Dfx cards and some S3 chipsets.

The patch is available from http://www.3dfx.com or http://www.orchid.com

Regards

Andrew

> Well, Guillemot have replied to me and told me that the 3D funtions of my S3
> card are trying to take over the D3D apps that the 3DFX card is assigned.

> Does this only happen with the Guillemot Card + S3 Virge?

> If so, where can I get a patch or will I have to change one of my Cards?

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