New Voodoo3 drivers worth the upgrade!

Yesterday I upgraded my V3 2000 drivers from 1.04 to 1.07; I was pretty surprised by the improvement. In GPL at Monaco (full field, mirrors to cars and track, all objects, 640x480, detail about one quarter) at the start with 1.04 I got 19-20fps. With 1.07, I get 27. My system: Celeron 466 128 megs RAM Voodoo3 2000 I'm hoping this will be enough to tie me over until WSC, F1RC, or at least N4 are out before I do a CPU and video card upgrade, David

In article <cU%56.19755$[email hidden]>, "David Montani" <[email hidden]> writes:

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>Yesterday I upgraded my V3 2000 drivers from 1.04 to 1.07; I was pretty >surprised by the improvement. In GPL at Monaco (full field, mirrors to cars >and track, all objects, 640x480, detail about one quarter) at the start with >1.04 I got 19-20fps. With 1.07, I get 27. >My system: >Celeron 466 >128 megs RAM >Voodoo3 2000 > >I'm hoping this will be enough to tie me over until WSC, F1RC, or at least >N4 are out before I do a CPU and video card upgrade, >David

How do you tell what version drivers you have? My driver files 'detail' says ver 4.12 - THAT can't be right... Eldred -- Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999 Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett GPL F1 hcp. +28.80...F2 +151.26...F3 hcp. +373.73 Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience... Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

The 1.07 was from the website, under "details" I now have 4.12.011.0666 with a release date of 11-10-2000. I'm pretty sure my old drivers had a release date of 6/2000. I got the drivers from www.3dfxgamers.com Hope this helps, David EldredP <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > In article <cU%56.19755$[email hidden]>,"David > Montani" <[email hidden]> writes: > > >Yesterday I upgraded my V3 2000 drivers from 1.04 to 1.07; I was pretty > >surprised by the improvement. In GPL at Monaco (full field, mirrors tocars > >and track, all objects, 640x480, detail about one quarter) at the startwith

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> >1.04 I got 19-20fps. With 1.07, I get 27. > >My system: > >Celeron 466 > >128 megs RAM > >Voodoo3 2000 > > > >I'm hoping this will be enough to tie me over until WSC, F1RC, or at

least > >N4 are out before I do a CPU and video card upgrade, > >David > > How do you tell what version drivers you have? My driver files 'detail'says

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> ver 4.12 - THAT can't be right... > > Eldred > -- > Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999 > Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett > GPL F1 hcp. +28.80...F2 +151.26...F3 hcp. +373.73 > > Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats

you > with experience... > Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

If you go to the 3dfx gamers site, then drivers, then archives you should be able to tell by the release date and/or the versions of the included components. In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] (EldredP) wrote: > In article <cU%56.19755$7f3.1417088@bgtnsc07-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>, "David > Montani" <[email hidden]> writes: > > >Yesterday I upgraded my V3 2000 drivers from 1.04 to 1.07; I waspretty > >surprised by the improvement. In GPL at Monaco (full field, mirrorsto cars > >and track, all objects, 640x480, detail about one quarter) at thestart with

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> >1.04 I got 19-20fps. With 1.07, I get 27. > >My system: > >Celeron 466 > >128 megs RAM > >Voodoo3 2000 > > > >I'm hoping this will be enough to tie me over until WSC, F1RC, or at

least > >N4 are out before I do a CPU and video card upgrade, > >David > > How do you tell what version drivers you have? My driverfiles 'detail' says

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> ver 4.12 - THAT can't be right... > > Eldred > -- > Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999 > Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett > GPL F1 hcp. +28.80...F2 +151.26...F3 hcp. +373.73 > > Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then

beats you > with experience... > Remove SPAM-OFF to reply. > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/

"EldredP" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > How do you tell what version drivers you have? My driver files 'detail'says > ver 4.12 - THAT can't be right... The version number he's referring to is found in the name of the exe that the drivers are archived and distrubuted with. For example, when you download the v. 1.07 drivers you would get a file named: v3-w9x-1.07.00.exe. I have no idea why they do that and then have a completely different and utterly confusing number in the 3dfx tools control panel.

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> Eldred > -- > Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999 > Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett > GPL F1 hcp. +28.80...F2 +151.26...F3 hcp. +373.73 > > Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats

you > with experience... > Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

In article <3k866.20690$[email hidden]>, "David Montani" <[email hidden]> writes:

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>The 1.07 was from the website, under "details" I now have 4.12.011.0666 with >a release date of 11-10-2000. I'm pretty sure my old drivers had a release >date of 6/2000. I got the drivers from www.3dfxgamers.com Hope this helps, >David >EldredP <[email hidden]> wrote in message >news:[email hidden]... >> >> How do you tell what version drivers you have? My driver files 'detail' >says >> ver 4.12 - THAT can't be right...

Hmm...I knew mine had to be very old - they're dated in 1999...<g> I downloaded drivers a couple of weeks ago, but I didn't want to screw around with updating before our GP race. Didn't matter - my system found something ELSE to screw up...<g> Eldred -- Tiger Stadium R.I.P. 1912-1999 Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett GPL F1 hcp. +28.80...F2 +151.26...F3 hcp. +373.73 Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience... Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.