VIPER: Anyone tried the new V2 Diamond drivers?

I've tried them and the triangles have gone away in Viper - but I still get a bit of the cursor flicker in GPL. Norm

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>Anyone tried the new V2 Diamond drivers with Viper Racing? >I have a sneaking suspicion that the old problems that plagued >Viper when using the 3DFX beta drivers might still be present. >Has anyone tried it, and if so, do you see little transparent >or white polygons in your car and scenery? >-- >( rrevved is at mindspring dot com >( post in haste, repent at your leisure

The new drivers DID fix the problem. I also noted a big boost in fps...not that it needed it... Mike (TEN ID:mpete) http://www.mnworld.com Mike's Nascar World

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>Anyone tried the new V2 Diamond drivers with Viper Racing? >I have a sneaking suspicion that the old problems that plagued >Viper when using the 3DFX beta drivers might still be present. >Has anyone tried it, and if so, do you see little transparent >or white polygons in your car and scenery? >-- >( rrevved is at mindspring dot com >( post in haste, repent at your leisure

I never tried the 3DFX beta drivers; thought I'd wait till Diamond got them sorted a bit. Well, no such luck. The new (205) drivers left the screen in the Viper Demo (oct. ver 2.2) literally covered in the dread polygons. And the FPS dropped about 2 on my WIN95/200MMX PC. I fared better in GPL, but still lost about 1 FPS, and the sound started popping in replays. I managed to round up some old(203) drivers, having brilliantly deleted the old ones, and all's well again. Back to the drawing board for Diamond. Thanks to all for sending me drivers, Steve B. Steve Blankenship remove "nospam" from address for email

I use the beta DX6 drivers from 3dfx, and it _fixed_ my problem with blue triangles. Oddly, most reports are that these drivers _cause_ the triangles :) One thing I did different that _may_ make a difference. I did not install DX6 from the Viper CD. I installed it using Windows 98 Auto-Update from their web site. -Larry

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> nyone tried the new V2 Diamond drivers with Viper Racing? > I have a sneaking suspicion that the old problems that plagued > Viper when using the 3DFX beta drivers might still be present. > Has anyone tried it, and if so, do you see little transparent > or white polygons in your car and scenery?

Maybe you should try the Viper game instead of the demo. After I installed the new drivers, Viper is great. No missing polys, framerate is now at about 56fps at 800x600 with all options on...

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> >>Anyone tried the new V2 Diamond drivers with Viper Racing? > >>Has anyone tried it, and if so, do you see little transparent or white > >>polygons in your car and scenery? > Yes I have!!!! I had bholes in the back ground and panels missing from car > with 203. The new drivers not only fixed it, they hae made the colors > really bright in Viper, GPL and EAW. Nomore washed out Voodoo II colors for > me!!!!!!!!! I hope they do a Voodoo I drivers now so I can get my other > comp 100% too.

I agree, to a point. The colors are much better and my fps in Viper went from 46 to 51 w/everything on. Im still a little leary though, after playing for about 10 mins (just after installing the updated drivers) the game crashed (a first), exited to Windows and gave me the message "Are your video drivers up to date?" While playing TAW, it also crashed and gave me a message that it couldnt read the Glide video drivers. After leaving the system off over night, I have played both games for extended periods of time with no problems - hopefully no more problems.

Yes I have!!!! I had bholes in the back ground and panels missing from car with 203. The new drivers not only fixed it, they hae made the colors really bright in Viper, GPL and EAW. Nomore washed out Voodoo II colors for me!!!!!!!!! I hope they do a Voodoo I drivers now so I can get my other comp 100% too.

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>>>Anyone tried the new V2 Diamond drivers with Viper Racing? >>>Has anyone tried it, and if so, do you see little transparent or white >>>polygons in your car and scenery? >Yes I have!!!! I had bholes in the back ground and panels missing from car >with 203. The new drivers not only fixed it, they hae made the colors >really bright in Viper, GPL and EAW. Nomore washed out Voodoo II colors for >me!!!!!!!!! I hope they do a Voodoo I drivers now so I can get my other >comp 100% too.

You may have missed the point on this one, I have been corresponding with support on this one myself. I have the lastest drivers from Diamond and still have these problems, what I got from support is that there may have been a conflict with my 3D AGP card which is a Number Nine Revolution 3D. Something to try is go to run then type viper racing 1, this will isolate your video card and will not accesss your monster 3D. I did this and the polygons were not there, but my frame rate dropped from 40 to 17. Those who I have talked to said that one of the best video cards to go with is the diamond stealth, as it supports rendition for most of the sierra racing titles. Good luck

I use the beta DX6 drivers from 3dfx, and it _fixed_ my problem with blue triangles. Oddly, most reports are that these drivers _cause_ the triangles :) One thing I did different that _may_ make a difference. I did not install DX6 from the Viper CD. I installed it using Windows 98 Auto-Update from their web site. -Larry

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> nyone tried the new V2 Diamond drivers with Viper Racing? > I have a sneaking suspicion that the old problems that plagued > Viper when using the 3DFX beta drivers might still be present. > Has anyone tried it, and if so, do you see little transparent > or white polygons in your car and scenery?