New Diamond Drivers?

I just D'loaded the new drivers (ver 2.07 ). Has anyone tried these yet? Especially with GPL? They say it fixes the control panel and now works with 3DNOW, but nothing else new. ???? I don't want to be the guinea pig. <G> "ZZ" -- Busch Carpentry "Plans?" ---------------- Busch Motorsports "Remember racecar is racecar spelled backward"

I downloaded them but was unable to use them. It said that the ones I was using were the most current. I checked the dates and they appear to be older or the same drivers. Anyone have and answer. Mike Grandy - proud member of Precision Team Motorsports Powered By ECCI driving controls http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/extreme/ I just D'loaded the new drivers (ver 2.07 ). Has anyone tried these yet? Especially with GPL? They say it fixes the control panel and now works with 3DNOW, but nothing else new. ???? I don't want to be the guinea pig. <G> "ZZ" -- Busch Carpentry "Plans?" ---------------- Busch Motorsports "Remember racecar is racecar spelled backward"

Hmmmm, I downloaded them and checked and the 207's are 12/16/98 while the 205's were 11/23/98. I have yet to try them, but hopefully I get a fix for polygons in Viper (with the same speed as 205 over 203...33% more fps in Viper) and working properly in GPL.

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> I downloaded them but was unable to use them. It said that the ones I > was using were the most current. I checked the dates and they appear > to be older or the same drivers.Anyone have and answer. Mike Grandy - > proud member of > Precision Team Motorsports > Powered By ECCI driving controls > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/extreme/ > new drivers (ver 2.07 ). Has anyone tried these yet? > Especially with GPL? They say it fixes the control panel and > now works > with 3DNOW, but nothing else new. ???? > I don't want to be the guinea pig. <G> > "ZZ" > -- > Busch Carpentry > "Plans?" > ---------------- > Busch Motorsports > "Remember racecar is racecar spelled backward"

-- Jon Van Ginneken "I wrestled with an alligator, tussled with a whale, handcuffed lightning, threw thunder in jail...I'm a bad dude." - Muhammad Ali

I tried them and like 205 they don't work right in GPL. Has the mouse flicker and will occasionally lock up (I went back to the 203's). It upsets me cause these are great drivers for performance and grafx, but I guess the 3dfx rastelizer in GPL 1.0.0.0 is not compatible; hopefully it's addressed in the GPL patch. For Viper it was like 205, no missing polygons and 33% faster for my system (PII 400). The grafx are richer, I think I saw a few more fps in GPL, but in GPL it crashes when I click into options more then once...too bad really.

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> I just D'loaded the new drivers (ver 2.07 ). Has anyone tried these yet? > Especially with GPL? They say it fixes the control panel and now works > with 3DNOW, but nothing else new. ???? > I don't want to be the guinea pig. <G> > "ZZ" > -- > Busch Carpentry > "Plans?" > ---------------- > Busch Motorsports > "Remember racecar is racecar spelled backward"

-- Jon Van Ginneken "I wrestled with an alligator, tussled with a whale, handcuffed lightning, threw thunder in jail...I'm a bad dude." - Muhammad Ali

Both problems are due to Glide 2.54 and will need to be addressed by 3Dfx in their drivers. Until then, you can place a copy of version 2.53 glide2x.dll (get it from the non-DX6 reference drivers available from 3Dfx) in your GPL folder. - Eric

Does 207 work with the CMR demo? Lutrell

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>Both problems are due to Glide 2.54 and will need to be addressed by >3Dfx in their drivers. Until then, you can place a copy of version 2.53 >glide2x.dll (get it from the non-DX6 reference drivers available from >3Dfx) in your GPL folder. >- Eric >>I tried them and like 205 they don't work right in GPL. Has the mouse >>flicker and will occasionally lock up (I went back to the 203's). It >upsets >>me cause these are great drivers for performance and grafx, but I guess >the >>3dfx rastelizer in GPL 1.0.0.0 is not compatible; hopefully it's >addressed >>in the GPL patch.

I just installed the 2.07 in my machine and except for losing the Control Panel again they work great in GPL. To get the control panel back I replace the MNSTR2PS.DLL file with the one from ver. 2.01 (the version that came on my monster II CD) I am also using the latest DX6 files without resorting to putting the older files in my GPL directory. I realize that many people are having problems with the new drivers but there are some of us who are not.

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>I tried them and like 205 they don't work right in GPL. Has the mouse >flicker and will occasionally lock up (I went back to the 203's). It upsets >me cause these are great drivers for performance and grafx, but I guess the >3dfx rastelizer in GPL 1.0.0.0 is not compatible; hopefully it's addressed >in the GPL patch. >For Viper it was like 205, no missing polygons and 33% faster for my system >(PII 400). The grafx are richer, I think I saw a few more fps in GPL, but >in GPL it crashes when I click into options more then once...too bad really. >> I just D'loaded the new drivers (ver 2.07 ). Has anyone tried these yet? >> Especially with GPL? They say it fixes the control panel and now works >> with 3DNOW, but nothing else new. ???? >> I don't want to be the guinea pig. <G> >> "ZZ" >> -- >> Busch Carpentry >> "Plans?" >> ---------------- >> Busch Motorsports >> "Remember racecar is racecar spelled backward" >-- >Jon Van Ginneken >"I wrestled with an alligator, tussled with a whale, >handcuffed lightning, threw thunder in jail...I'm a bad dude." > - Muhammad Ali

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How do you install these new drivers? I run execute file & click on re-install, it points to my D: drive for completion, but the updated files on already in my computer. My D: drive is my CD-ROM. Thanks, Gordon

I gotta say, there is more to this polygon problem in Viper than just V2 drivers and DirectX 6... I really don't think we know the answer to this mystery yet. In my case, the problem was _fixed_ by installing the Beta DirectX 6 drivers. In most cases, the polygons were _blamed_ on the Directx 6 Beta drivers... I later updated to the 205 drivers, and had no problems. -Larry