F12001: Why no 3dfx problem posts?

Well the Nvidia legions have been pulling their hair out trying to get the new F1 sim from EA working right. some have made great progress...way to go...but what about the 3dfx V5 users? I haven't heard a peep from them. Could it be because... a) Not a single V5 user has purchased F12001 b) Not a single RAS user has a V5 anymore or C) THERE ain't no problems with a V5 and F1 2001. Any Voodoo owners get F1 2001 to run well? I'm curious AND somewhat .......nawww :) too easy... dave henrie

In article <mnLx7.728$[email hidden]>, Dave Henrie <[email hidden]> writes

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> Well the Nvidia legions have been pulling their hair out trying to get the >new F1 sim from EA working right. some have made great progress...way to >go...but what about the 3dfx V5 users? I haven't heard a peep from them. >Could it be because... >a) Not a single V5 user has purchased F12001 >b) Not a single RAS user has a V5 anymore >or >C) THERE ain't no problems with a V5 and F1 2001. > Any Voodoo owners get F1 2001 to run well? I'm curious AND somewhat >.......nawww :) too easy... >dave henrie >

I've still got a V5 and I'd just like to get F1 2001 to run *at all * let alone well. -- Sean Black

Dave, Maybe I'm just lucky, but F1 2001 worked right out of the box for me, using my Voodoo5. I just had to make sure that it was NOT set at 32 bit. Looks just fine, too! Bert Dave Henrie wrote:

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> Well the Nvidia legions have been pulling their hair out trying to get the > new F1 sim from EA working right. some have made great progress...way to > go...but what about the 3dfx V5 users? I haven't heard a peep from them. > Could it be because... > a) Not a single V5 user has purchased F12001 > b) Not a single RAS user has a V5 anymore > or > C) THERE ain't no problems with a V5 and F1 2001. > Any Voodoo owners get F1 2001 to run well? I'm curious AND somewhat > .......nawww :) too easy... > dave henrie

-- Bert

I have an AMD 1.4 running WinME and Voodoo5. I have not probs running F12001 at 2xFSAA on my machine at pretty much max detail. I get a slight bit of texture corruption on signage but it's hardly noticable. "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:mnLx7.728$[email hidden]... > Well the Nvidia legions have been pulling their hair out trying to getthe

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> new F1 sim from EA working right. some have made great progress...way to > go...but what about the 3dfx V5 users? I haven't heard a peep from them. > Could it be because... > a) Not a single V5 user has purchased F12001 > b) Not a single RAS user has a V5 anymore > or > C) THERE ain't no problems with a V5 and F1 2001. > Any Voodoo owners get F1 2001 to run well? I'm curious AND somewhat > .......nawww :) too easy... > dave henrie > > >

I did have a problem getting it to run on my Voodoo4, at first. The config screen kept dumping me back to the desktop in the midst of running its tests, and did not allow me to load the sim. However, after loading the 1.04.01 driver for Windows 98, it now works fine. Well, not quite - the mouse pointer disappears when I stop moving the mouse in the menus - it only appears when I move it, and it also disappears around some buttons, making it hard to make changes. Otherwise, so far so good. There are a lot of weird and unofficial drivers for Voodoo floating around, so try the official ones in case you're having a similar problem.

Here's one that was posted right before your post: What's supposed to happen when you run 3D Setup? I've got a Voodoo 5 and I can't get the game to run at all. After selecting the resolution, I press the anlyze button and the screen goes black, the results come up as: Triangle Rate: Cannot set mode Object Detail Level: Full Texture Detail Level: Full Should the screen go black? Or should I be seeing something? I'd really like to try this game after all the positive posts, but as it is I'll have to stick to GP3-2000. Any help greatly appreciated. -- Sean Black "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:mnLx7.728$[email hidden]... > Well the Nvidia legions have been pulling their hair out trying to get the > new F1 sim from EA working right. some have made great progress...way to > go...but what about the 3dfx V5 users? I haven't heard a peep from them. > Could it be because... > a) Not a single V5 user has purchased F12001 > b) Not a single RAS user has a V5 anymore > or > C) THERE ain't no problems with a V5 and F1 2001. > Any Voodoo owners get F1 2001 to run well? I'm curious AND somewhat > .......nawww :) too easy... > dave henrie > > >

Just for info's sake, did EA include any drivers on the cd?? dave henrie "Krakus" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:oxNx7.250378$[email hidden]... > I did have a problem getting it to run on my Voodoo4, at first. The config > screen kept dumping me back to the desktop in the midst of running its > tests, and did not allow me to load the sim. However, after loading the > 1.04.01 driver for Windows 98, it now works fine. Well, not quite - the > mouse pointer disappears when I stop moving the mouse in the menus - itonly > appears when I move it, and it also disappears around some buttons, making > it hard to make changes. Otherwise, so far so good. There are a lot ofweird > and unofficial drivers for Voodoo floating around, so try the officialones > in case you're having a similar problem. > >

The Voodoo5's in general work fine with this sim. I am running it at 1024x768 x 16bit x 2XFSAA x 85 Hz. All I had to do is to upgrade the drivers to the latest one dated "1-31-2001" to be found on http://www.reactorcritical.com . The picture is excellent. The only problem with Voodoo5 may be that it cannot do 4XFSAA. Never heard of one who can do it via V5. -1GHz T-bird -256MB -V5 AGP "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:mnLx7.728$[email hidden]... > Well the Nvidia legions have been pulling their hair out trying to getthe

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> new F1 sim from EA working right. some have made great progress...way to > go...but what about the 3dfx V5 users? I haven't heard a peep from them. > Could it be because... > a) Not a single V5 user has purchased F12001 > b) Not a single RAS user has a V5 anymore > or > C) THERE ain't no problems with a V5 and F1 2001. > Any Voodoo owners get F1 2001 to run well? I'm curious AND somewhat > .......nawww :) too easy... > dave henrie > > >

Of course, all the Voodoo 1/2/3 users are unable to post any problems... Rafe Mc On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 23:52:50 GMT, "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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> Well the Nvidia legions have been pulling their hair out trying to get the >new F1 sim from EA working right. some have made great progress...way to >go...but what about the 3dfx V5 users? I haven't heard a peep from them. >Could it be because... >a) Not a single V5 user has purchased F12001 >b) Not a single RAS user has a V5 anymore >or >C) THERE ain't no problems with a V5 and F1 2001. > Any Voodoo owners get F1 2001 to run well? I'm curious AND somewhat >.......nawww :) too easy... >dave henrie > >

"Ali Ismet Ozkan" <[email hidden]> writes: > The Voodoo5's in general work fine with this sim. I am running it at > 1024x768 x 16bit x 2XFSAA x 85 Hz. All I had to do is to upgrade the drivers > to the latest one dated "1-31-2001" to be found on > http://www.reactorcritical.com . The picture is excellent. The only problem > with Voodoo5 may be that it cannot do 4XFSAA. Never heard of one who can do > it via V5. Huh? My V5 does 4xFSAA, with a huge frame rate hit that is :)

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> -1GHz T-bird > -256MB > -V5 AGP > > > > "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:mnLx7.728$[email hidden]... > > Well the Nvidia legions have been pulling their hair out trying to get > the > > new F1 sim from EA working right. some have made great progress...way to > > go...but what about the 3dfx V5 users? I haven't heard a peep from them. > > Could it be because... > > a) Not a single V5 user has purchased F12001 > > b) Not a single RAS user has a V5 anymore > > or > > C) THERE ain't no problems with a V5 and F1 2001. > > Any Voodoo owners get F1 2001 to run well? I'm curious AND somewhat > > .......nawww :) too easy... > > dave henrie > > > > > > > >

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Never had a problem with F1 2001 on my nvidia :) "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:mnLx7.728$[email hidden]... > Well the Nvidia legions have been pulling their hair out trying to getthe

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> new F1 sim from EA working right. some have made great progress...way to > go...but what about the 3dfx V5 users? I haven't heard a peep from them. > Could it be because... > a) Not a single V5 user has purchased F12001 > b) Not a single RAS user has a V5 anymore > or > C) THERE ain't no problems with a V5 and F1 2001. > Any Voodoo owners get F1 2001 to run well? I'm curious AND somewhat > .......nawww :) too easy... > dave henrie > > >

And no problems with your mouse pointer disappearing in the menus?

In article <d2Zx7.252623$[email hidden]>, Krakus <[email hidden]> writes >And no problems with your mouse pointer disappearing in the menus? > > Are you running it windowed? I did at first and the mouse pointer kept disappearing. Changed to full screen and it's fine. Didn't notice any frame rate decrease. Getting about 40fps at the start of a race at Monaco. -- Sean Black

No, I'm not running it windowed. Could you do me a favour and tell me exactly what driver version you're using, where you got it, whether you changed any of the default settings, and what OS you're running on? I've spent hours trying different drivers for my Voodoo4, and my mouse pointer keeps disappearing on all of them. Thanks.

I mean "on F1 2001". "Olav K. Malmin" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > "Ali Ismet Ozkan" <[email hidden]> writes: > > > The Voodoo5's in general work fine with this sim. I am running it at > > 1024x768 x 16bit x 2XFSAA x 85 Hz. All I had to do is to upgrade thedrivers > > to the latest one dated "1-31-2001" to be found on > > http://www.reactorcritical.com . The picture is excellent. The onlyproblem > > with Voodoo5 may be that it cannot do 4XFSAA. Never heard of one who cando

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> > it via V5. > > Huh? My V5 does 4xFSAA, with a huge frame rate hit that is :) > > > -1GHz T-bird > > -256MB > > -V5 AGP > > > > > > > > "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:mnLx7.728$[email hidden]... > > > Well the Nvidia legions have been pulling their hair out trying to

get > > the > > > new F1 sim from EA working right. some have made great progress...wayto > > > go...but what about the 3dfx V5 users? I haven't heard a peep fromthem. > > > Could it be because... > > > a) Not a single V5 user has purchased F12001 > > > b) Not a single RAS user has a V5 anymore > > > or > > > C) THERE ain't no problems with a V5 and F1 2001. > > > Any Voodoo owners get F1 2001 to run well? I'm curious ANDsomewhat

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> > > .......nawww :) too easy... > > > dave henrie > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Olav K. Malmin > remove .spam when replying

Try this driver. It's the one I'm currnetly using. Also make sure in config.ini of F1 2001 windowedmode=0 exists. Run f1config.exe before running the game, err, the simulation. ;) http://www.reactorcritical.com/files/3dfx/VSWin9xME-2102.exe "Krakus" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:LU0y7.253252$[email hidden]...

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> No, I'm not running it windowed. Could you do me a favour and tell me > exactly what driver version you're using, where you got it, whether you > changed any of the default settings, and what OS you're running on? I've > spent hours trying different drivers for my Voodoo4, and my mouse pointer > keeps disappearing on all of them. Thanks. > >

Very nice reply. And how is the weather ? "Simon Brown" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:TjYx7.5317$[email hidden]...

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> Never had a problem with F1 2001 on my nvidia :) > > "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:mnLx7.728$[email hidden]... > > Well the Nvidia legions have been pulling their hair out trying to get > the > > new F1 sim from EA working right. some have made great progress...way

to > > go...but what about the 3dfx V5 users? I haven't heard a peep fromthem.

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> > Could it be because... > > a) Not a single V5 user has purchased F12001 > > b) Not a single RAS user has a V5 anymore > > or > > C) THERE ain't no problems with a V5 and F1 2001. > > Any Voodoo owners get F1 2001 to run well? I'm curious AND somewhat > > .......nawww :) too easy... > > dave henrie > > > > > > > >

Nice hair. "Simon Brown" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:TjYx7.5317$[email hidden]...

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> Never had a problem with F1 2001 on my nvidia :) > > "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:mnLx7.728$[email hidden]... > > Well the Nvidia legions have been pulling their hair out trying to get > the > > new F1 sim from EA working right. some have made great progress...way

to > > go...but what about the 3dfx V5 users? I haven't heard a peep fromthem.

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> > Could it be because... > > a) Not a single V5 user has purchased F12001 > > b) Not a single RAS user has a V5 anymore > > or > > C) THERE ain't no problems with a V5 and F1 2001. > > Any Voodoo owners get F1 2001 to run well? I'm curious AND somewhat > > .......nawww :) too easy... > > dave henrie > > > > > > > >

> Any Voodoo owners get F1 2001 to run well? no problem here with Voodoo5 5500, runs perfect.

? "Ali Ismet Ozkan" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:MS3y7.6180$[email hidden]... > Very nice reply. And how is the weather ?