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GPL - I tried the open GL patch last night

5 posts by 3 people · 05 Nov 1998 - 05 Nov 1998

-Pau 05 Nov 1998#432758
I have a P2-400 with two V2's and a Viper 550 TNT. I'm happy with the glide support (ecstatic actually), but I wanted to try the opengl patch. I copied it to the dll and INI file to \sierra\gpl. Open GL was a graphics option. I selected it, hit the green button and exited the game. When I came back in, the color was slightly different so I am thinking that the Riva is running things. I select Single Race at Monaco and when I finally get on the track i have a black screen. I can hear the cars running. I have read of other people having success, so I am hoping it is just a minor problem. Any ideas???? -Paul
Eric Busch 05 Nov 1998#432759
Try running at 640x480 as that should work with most any TNT driver. You might want to verify that you have the latest Diamond driver and perhaps try the latest NVidia reference drivers as well. - Eric
-Pau 05 Nov 1998#432760
I downloaded the latest reference drivers the other day from http://www.3dfxmania.com but I will try a different screen resolution. Thanks, -Paul
Quoted text (22 lines)>Try running at 640x480 as that should work with most any TNT driver. >You might want to verify that you have the latest Diamond driver and >perhaps try the latest NVidia reference drivers as well. >- Eric >>I have a P2-400 with two V2's and a Viper 550 TNT. I'm happy with >the glide >>support (ecstatic actually), but I wanted to try the opengl patch. I >copied >>it to the dll and INI file to \sierra\gpl. Open GL was a graphics >option. >>I selected it, hit the green button and exited the game. When I came >back >>in, the color was slightly different so I am thinking that the Riva >is >>running things. I select Single Race at Monaco and when I finally >get on >>the track i have a black screen. I can hear the cars running.
Eric Busch 05 Nov 1998#432761
FYI the last time I checked the reference drivers only seemed to work at 640x480. - Eric resolution.
I have the same setup and experienced the same blackout problems with the Viper. Here's what I did that seems to help, although until they get the mirror problem fixed you'll probably want to use your V2s. Go into the sim and change the 3dcard to opengl and the screen res to 640x480. Exit the sim and then go back into it. Go to a track and enter the options menu from the track. Change your screen resolution to whatever you want that your monitor supports. Using this technique I was able to try out resolutions up to 1280x1024 with almost 100% success avoiding the black screen you describe. I was never able to start the sim from any resolution other than 640x480 without problems.(that is, open GPL from desktop with the in-sim resolution already set to something other than 640x480) This may not be completely effective, but maybe you can at least see what GPL looks like on your V550. Jerry Morelock >I have a P2-400 with two V2's and a Viper 550 TNT. I'm happy with the glide >support (ecstatic actually), but I wanted to try the opengl patch. I copied
Quoted text (10 lines)>it to the dll and INI file to \sierra\gpl. Open GL was a graphics option. >I selected it, hit the green button and exited the game. When I came back >in, the color was slightly different so I am thinking that the Riva is >running things. I select Single Race at Monaco and when I finally get on >the track i have a black screen. I can hear the cars running. >I have read of other people having success, so I am hoping it is just a >minor problem. Any ideas???? >-Paul

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