GPL and Diamond Monster Voodoo II Card

Need help. I am having a problem with GPL and my Diamond Monster Voodoo II card. When I try to run GPL in 3dfx the track and all the surroundings will turn black but can still see my car. A little farther down the track the road comes back and then is gone again. I really am very new to computers and such so I need some help getting this problem cleared up. Here is what my system is: Pent II 400 128 mb ram Sound Blaster Live sound card Diamond Viper 550 Riva TNT card 16mb Diamond Monster Voodoo II card 12mb 8.0 Gig HD and so on Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Head to http://www.diamondmm.com and get the latest video driver for your card. Brian

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>Need help. >I am having a problem with GPL and my Diamond Monster Voodoo II card. When >I try to run GPL in 3dfx the track and all the surroundings will turn black >but can still see my car. A little farther down the track the road comes >back and then is gone again. I really am very new to computers and such so >I need some help getting this problem cleared up. Here is what my system >is: >Pent II 400 >128 mb ram >Sound Blaster Live sound card >Diamond Viper 550 Riva TNT card 16mb >Diamond Monster Voodoo II card 12mb >8.0 Gig HD >and so on >Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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> Need help. > I am having a problem with GPL and my Diamond Monster Voodoo II card. When > I try to run GPL in 3dfx the track and all the surroundings will turn black > but can still see my car. A little farther down the track the road comes > back and then is gone again. I really am very new to computers and such so > I need some help getting this problem cleared up. Here is what my system > is: > Pent II 400 > 128 mb ram > Sound Blaster Live sound card > Diamond Viper 550 Riva TNT card 16mb > Diamond Monster Voodoo II card 12mb > 8.0 Gig HD > and so on > Any help would be greatly appreciated.

H'mmm, something to try..... in the Diamond Monster control panel, make sure 'tripple buffering' is 'OFF', I had trouble with that with GPL originally, but all ok now.... I also heard that GPL don't like 128mb. of ram, something to do with memory allocation.... but you will have to ask others on that one! Also make sure you have the latest 3dfx drivers from Diamond.... w9xm2207 Good luck.... DHawnt (UK)

Don't use the new drivers they will make GPL crash the 203 drivers work great and I also here the ref divers from 3DFX work also >> Need help. >> I am having a problem with GPL and my Diamond Monster Voodoo II card. When >> I try to run GPL in 3dfx the track and all the surroundings will turn black >> but can still see my car. A little farther down the track the road comes >> back and then is gone again. I really am very new to computers and such so

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>> I need some help getting this problem cleared up. Here is what my system >> is: >> Pent II 400 >> 128 mb ram >> Sound Blaster Live sound card >> Diamond Viper 550 Riva TNT card 16mb >> Diamond Monster Voodoo II card 12mb >> 8.0 Gig HD >> and so on >> Any help would be greatly appreciated. >H'mmm, something to try..... in the Diamond Monster control panel, make

sure >'tripple buffering' is 'OFF', I had trouble with that with GPL originally, but >all ok now.... I also heard that GPL don't like 128mb. of ram, something to do >with memory allocation.... but you will have to ask others on that one! >Also make sure you have the latest 3dfx drivers from Diamond.... w9xm2207 >Good luck.... >DHawnt (UK)

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> > Need help. > > I am having a problem with GPL and my Diamond Monster Voodoo II card. When > > I try to run GPL in 3dfx the track and all the surroundings will turn black > > but can still see my car. A little farther down the track the road comes > > back and then is gone again. I really am very new to computers and such so > > I need some help getting this problem cleared up. Here is what my system > > is: > > Pent II 400 > > 128 mb ram > > Sound Blaster Live sound card > > Diamond Viper 550 Riva TNT card 16mb > > Diamond Monster Voodoo II card 12mb > > 8.0 Gig HD > > and so on

GPL doesn't like the latest glide2x.dll (version 2.54). You need version 2.53. You can place this dll directly in your GPL folder and leave the later version in its normal place in the Windows hierarchy. I haven't heard about this. I have 128 MB of RAM and have no problems. Dave Ewing

>> > Need help. >> > I am having a problem with GPL and my Diamond Monster Voodoo II card. When >> > I try to run GPL in 3dfx the track and all the surroundings will turn black >> > but can still see my car. A little farther down the track the road comes >> > back and then is gone again. I really am very new to computers and such so >> > I need some help getting this problem cleared up. Here is what my system

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>> > is: >> > Pent II 400 >> > 128 mb ram >> > Sound Blaster Live sound card >> > Diamond Viper 550 Riva TNT card 16mb >> > Diamond Monster Voodoo II card 12mb >> > 8.0 Gig HD >> > and so on >GPL doesn't like the latest glide2x.dll (version 2.54). You need version >2.53. You can place this dll directly in your GPL folder and leave the >later version in its normal place in the Windows hierarchy.

Works wonders! me and about 5 other guys I race online with all have 128mb ram and have no problems at all. Even better we get really long replays!