|One of my friends also just got a Diamond Stealth Voodoo 3 (?) I think, and has
|been very frustrated that GPL and the computer simply locks up once you click
|on the green button on the track/event selection screen. He said something
|about it being uncompatible with Glide. Pretty rediculous. I hope it's
|something that is rectified soon, because I was planning on upgrading in the
|near future.
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|John
After reading www.anandtech.com about the voodoo3 review, I'm underwhelmed
and will save my money for the TNT2. That at least OUGHT to work.
Mikey
Below is a reply to a question I just posted to the 3dfx voodoo 3 newsgroup
asking if GPL worked with the new Voodoo 3 card, murchman was kind enough to
reply very quickly with the following info:-
No it doesn't work with GPL. with the voodoo2 you would have to put the
glide 2.43 file in the GPL directory to get it to work. Well with the V3
you have to remove it, then the game will come up but the textures will go
very out of place making the game unplayable!
Looks like my V2 is going back in as most game I own besides shooters will
not work with the V3!
One of my friends also just got a Diamond Stealth Voodoo 3 (?) I think, and has
been very frustrated that GPL and the computer simply locks up once you click
on the green button on the track/event selection screen. He said something
about it being uncompatible with Glide. Pretty rediculous. I hope it's
something that is rectified soon, because I was planning on upgrading in the
near future.
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John
-Ravey schrieb in Nachricht <>No it doesn't work with GPL. with the -voodoo2
you would have to put the
Hey, I hope the upcoming patch for GPL does the fix. They MUST do this....
Peter
Sounds like he doesnt know what card he bought.
Voodoo3s are only being made by STB. No one else will make the
Voodoo3.
If it's a Stealth, it could be the Stealth II s220 which is Rendition
based and works beautifully with GPL
If its a Stealth G460 then its Intel i740 based and a very avergae
card for anything.
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I'm quite sure this is the case too. The V3's just hit the streets TODAY,
and are only made by STB. And even if it was a Diamond 3dfx-based card,
it'd be a Monster something, not Stealth. Either he should try to run it in
Rendition mode in case it's a S220, or he's outta luck.
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>Sounds like he doesnt know what card he bought.
>Voodoo3s are only being made by STB. No one else will make the
>Voodoo3.
>If it's a Stealth, it could be the Stealth II s220 which is Rendition
>based and works beautifully with GPL
>If its a Stealth G460 then its Intel i740 based and a very avergae
>card for anything.
>>One of my friends also just got a Diamond Stealth Voodoo 3 (?) I think,
and has
>>been very frustrated that GPL and the computer simply locks up once you
click
>>on the green button on the track/event selection screen. He said
something
>>about it being uncompatible with Glide. Pretty rediculous. I hope it's
>>something that is rectified soon, because I was planning on upgrading in
the
>>near future.
>>- - - - -
>>John
>--
>Nathan Wong http://www.nectar.com.au/~alfacors
> Alfa Romeo - Super Touring - Club Cars
> http://fullspeed.to/astc
> Australian Super Touring Championship
> News and Information
You have to do a bit of a workaround for the V3 too, but it seems to work -
look for a post of mine "GPL and Voodoo3 FIX!!" for details.
--
Ken's Sig 2.01
"Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system
of government.
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from
some farcical aquatic ceremony."
Go #43 and #44!
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volksy (at) yahoo (dot) com
Diamond stealth voodoo 3? No such card.
Diamond dosn't sell a V3 card.
The old Diamond stealth 2 used the rendition chip. They have another
stelth that used the intel chip and one that uses an S3 chip. But no
voodoo in the stealth line up.
No, but it should run the OpenGL version better than the TNT. You are
better off getting 2 Voodoo2 and running them in SLI mode. They perform
better than a Voodoo3 2000 or 3000. If you plan on doing any other ***
outside of GPL, then the TNT2 is definitely a much better buy by a very big
margin.
It's not ridiculous, just business...(nobody can keep Glide 2.5x forever).
Who do we expect to rectify it? Sierra/Papy? 3Dfx? This scenario is
played out every time there's a new release of DirectX or graphics hardware.
Kyle
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:44:02 +0100, "Ravey"
From what I have seen you simply set "Limit Textures to 2meg" in the
V2 Control Panel.
G. Patricks
Could be a different card, I have no idea if he's right or not. I'm not really
up on hardware until it becomes buying time. ;)
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John
