GPL & XP - defaulting to software 3d?

I havent seen a prior post on this. I upgraded to XP Pro edition. Everything works okay except GPL defaults to software 3d mode & says Im missing a file called redline.dll. Anyone else had this problem at all? If so, whats the fix?

Redline is the api for Rendition video cards. For some reason your cfg file seems messed up. It thinks you have a Rendition card instead of whatever you have. So try poking around the core.ini and find the following lines: [ Direct3D7 ] D3DDevice = 0 change that to [ Direct3D7 ] D3DDevice = 1 you should then be able to boot to d3d(provided you've added that patch) and then choose whatever 3d rasterizer you want. dave henrie "Randy" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > I havent seen a prior post on this. I upgraded to XP Pro edition. > Everything works okay except GPL defaults to software 3d mode & says > Im missing a file called redline.dll. Anyone else had this problem at > all? If so, whats the fix?

On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 18:29:14 GMT, "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote: Thanks for the quick response. I looked in the core.ini and saw no lines at all that had any of that in them. BTW, I have a Voodoo Banshee card (if that matters). Should I add that line? then?

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> Redline is the api for Rendition video cards. For some reason your cfg >file seems messed up. It thinks you have a Rendition card instead of >whatever you have. So try poking around the core.ini and find the >following lines: > > >[ Direct3D7 ] >D3DDevice = 0 > >change that to > >[ Direct3D7 ] >D3DDevice = 1 > >you should then be able to boot to d3d(provided you've added that patch) and >then choose whatever 3d rasterizer you want. >dave henrie

This site has Banshee GLIDE drivers for 2K, they don't seem to have any for XP, but the rest of the 3DFX line seems covered at the site for XP. http://www.falconfly.de/3dfx.htm

The Voodoo Banshee would probably not be supported very under XP as as you know 3DFX do not exist any more... I think the reason why you get the error is that the standard XP Banshee drivers only support Direct3D, not Glide which is what you probably used under Win9x. You could try running the Direct3D patch from www.papy.com, but I would think about buying a newer graphics card (non 3DFX) and run GPL in Direct3D mode under WinXP or go back to Win9x and run Glide. You could be adventurous and try the Windows 2000 beta Banshee drivers which should work under Windows XP. http://www.windrivers.com/company/3dfx/drivers/banshee/vb-w2k-1.02.02-beta.e xe This link was taken from this x3DFX site :- http://x3dfx.da.ru/ Good luck but as I said, I would think about upgrading to a newer card. Cheers, Les. "Randy" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 18:29:14 GMT, "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> > wrote: > > Thanks for the quick response. > > I looked in the core.ini and saw no lines at all that had any of that > in them. BTW, I have a Voodoo Banshee card (if that matters). Should > I add that line? then? > > > > Redline is the api for Rendition video cards. For some reason your cfg > >file seems messed up. It thinks you have a Rendition card instead of > >whatever you have. So try poking around the core.ini and find the > >following lines: > > > > > >[ Direct3D7 ] > >D3DDevice = 0 > > > >change that to > > > >[ Direct3D7 ] > >D3DDevice = 1 > > > >you should then be able to boot to d3d(provided you've added that patch)

and > >then choose whatever 3d rasterizer you want. > >dave henrie >

I don't remember exactly, but maybe others will. Wasn't there something that you had to do to get the Banshee card to work with GPL that you didn't have to do with the other video cards? "Drag0n" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:iJ_C7.48773$[email hidden]... > This site has Banshee GLIDE drivers for 2K, they don't seem to have anyfor > XP, but the rest of the 3DFX line seems covered at the site for XP. > > http://www.falconfly.de/3dfx.htm > > >

Yep, I think you had to run the Glide'o'matic patch by George Smiley... http://home.swbell.net/gmsmiley/ "Glen Pittman" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:3bdcb56c$[email hidden]... > I don't remember exactly, but maybe others will. Wasn't there something > that you had to do to get the Banshee card to work with GPL that youdidn't

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> have to do with the other video cards? > > > > > "Drag0n" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:iJ_C7.48773$[email hidden]... > > This site has Banshee GLIDE drivers for 2K, they don't seem to have any > for > > XP, but the rest of the 3DFX line seems covered at the site for XP. > > > > http://www.falconfly.de/3dfx.htm > > > > > > > >