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Riva 128 OpenGL beta drivers/F1RS etc.

4 posts by 4 people · 04 Mar 1998 - 06 Mar 1998

Just saw at Diamonds driver page for the Viper 330 that there are now "beta" versions of OpenGL drivers for the Riva 128. My question is, what exactly will these help with. Any good for F1RS? Anything about this OpenGL stuff would be appreciated. I am clueless on the subject :) -- We are the Hosh! You will be assimilated! Lower your defences and surrender! Your technological and biological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Your culture will be adapted to service us. Resistance is futile. Have a nice &*($ing day!
plegr.. 06 Mar 1998#398532
No sorry it wont allow the Riva to run F1 RS in Glide mode nor will it help the Riva run F1 RS in D3D mode...the only thing it will help with is Games made to run with OpenGL....currently the most popular is the Quake series with all the addons and conversions and licensed products...ie Hexen2.... PAPA DOC Pierre PAPA DOC Legrand Infamous Pink Flamingo Pilot...<G>
Nathan Wong 06 Mar 1998#398533
It won't help F1RS. F1 uses Direct 3D. Open GL is a Silicon Graphics graphics standard, and is used with games like Hexen2 and Quake 2. I suppose it first gained major exposure when GL Quake came out, before which, no one really cared.. -- Nathan Wong http://www.nectar.com.au/~alfacors - Super Touring - Alfa Romeo - - V8Supercars - CART -
Keith Allso 06 Mar 1998#398534
Quoted text (10 lines)> Just saw at Diamonds driver page for the Viper 330 that there are now > "beta" versions of OpenGL drivers for the Riva 128. My question is, what > exactly will these help with. Any good for F1RS? Anything about this > OpenGL stuff would be appreciated. I am clueless on the subject :) > -- > We are the Hosh! You will be assimilated! Lower your defences > and surrender! Your technological and biological distinctiveness > will be added to our own. Your culture will be adapted to > service us. Resistance is futile. Have a nice &*($ing day!
Byron, I tried the beat OpenGL drivers on my Viper 330 and they are lousy. The image quality in F1RS was terrible, and frame rate was noticeably slower. Stick with the Diamond rev 23 turbo drivers for the best F1RS. Keith. -- !!! remove _ANTISPAM from e-mail address when replying !!!

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