I installed F1 2001 on my son's computer with a Voodoo3 3000 video card. It
has DX8.1 installed, but the game says it won't play because there are "no
DX8 video adapters found". Does anybody know if there is a DX8 driver
available for this card?
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Slot
Tweaks & Reviews
www.slottweak.com
I read that only Voodoo 5 recognises DX8 and if you read in the read me file
on the EA Sports cd I think it has some reference to there as well
Regards
Bob
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> I installed F1 2001 on my son's computer with a Voodoo3 3000 video card.It
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> has DX8.1 installed, but the game says it won't play because there are "no > DX8 video adapters found". Does anybody know if there is a DX8 driver > available for this card? > > > -- > Slot > > Tweaks & Reviews > www.slottweak.com > >On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 17:49:45 GMT, "GTX_SlotCar" <[email hidden]>
wrote:
>I installed F1 2001 on my son's computer with a Voodoo3 3000 video card. It
>has DX8.1 installed, but the game says it won't play because there are "no
>DX8 video adapters found". Does anybody know if there is a DX8 driver
>available for this card?
I may be wrong but don't think F1-2001 works with Voodoo-3, the
Voodoo-5 is supposed to though.
The video driver would be the lastest/last 3dfx Voodoo3 drivers
(which support DX8.0 at least). The last drivers I ran (file name)
were,
v3-w9x-1.06.00.exe
easy to find with a Yahoo/Google search.
I asked a similar Q a week back. The couple of answers I received indicate
that it's a no-go. So, now I have to buy a $100 vid card to take advantage of
the $19.99 deal I got on the game :-O
Which card? Well, I'm leaning toward either a GF2 Ti 64MB. Others have
commented on how the GF4's are just around the corner and expect the price of
GF3's to drop accordingly.
GTX_SlotCar wrote:
>
> I installed F1 2001 on my son's computer with a Voodoo3 3000 video card. It
> has DX8.1 installed, but the game says it won't play because there are "no
> DX8 video adapters found". Does anybody know if there is a DX8 driver
> available for this card?
This place
http://www.omegacorner.com/3dfx.htm
has some newer drivers for V3/4/5 cards, I have not tested them myself
though, so can't say if they're any good or not, well Scott Husted would
tell you all that I couldn't say even I had tested them, but we all know
how much his word counts...:-)
Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy
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Tried those before. No DX8 in the V3 setup. It could be the card just won't
do it, but I don't know why. Wait.... I while back I used V5500 drivers
with a V3 and it worked (except for the FSAA stuff, of course). Maybe it
would support DX8 with those drivers.
--
Slot
Tweaks & Reviews
www.slottweak.com
"Goy Larsen" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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>
>
> GTX_SlotCar wrote:
> >
> > I installed F1 2001 on my son's computer with a Voodoo3 3000 video card.
It
> > has DX8.1 installed, but the game says it won't play because there are
"no
> > DX8 video adapters found". Does anybody know if there is a DX8 driver
> > available for this card?
>
> This place
>
> http://www.omegacorner.com/3dfx.htm
>
> has some newer drivers for V3/4/5 cards, I have not tested them myself
> though, so can't say if they're any good or not, well Scott Husted would
> tell you all that I couldn't say even I had tested them, but we all know
> how much his word counts...:-)
>
>
> Beers and cheers
> (uncle) Goy
>
> "The Pits" http://www.theuspits.com/
>
> * Spam is for losers who can't get business any other way *
> "Spamkiller" http://www.spamkiller.com
central wrote:
>
> Tried those before. No DX8 in the V3 setup. It could be the card just won't
> do it, but I don't know why. Wait.... I while back I used V5500 drivers
> with a V3 and it worked (except for the FSAA stuff, of course). Maybe it
> would support DX8 with those drivers.
Really ?
Didn't know you could do that even, not that I have any systems with a
V3 that I use for gaming anymore, but I'm sure some people could find
that useful to squeeze some more life out of an aging system
Personally I'm holding on to my V5's for a bit longer :-)
Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy
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--Groucho Marx--
This one was answered a little way down guys. Unfortunately, the Voodoo 3
series can't handle the default texture size that the game requires. So
unless someone has managed to compress all the textures to 256X256, I don't
think it'll work.
"Goy Larsen" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> central wrote:
> >
> > Tried those before. No DX8 in the V3 setup. It could be the card justwon't
> > do it, but I don't know why. Wait.... I while back I used V5500 drivers
> > with a V3 and it worked (except for the FSAA stuff, of course). Maybeit
