GPL and Glide 2.56

I installed the new (5/8/99) 3dfx reference drivers (titled Quake III compatible :-) for my V2, ran a short race with the AI and it worked great! Increased fps, smoother graphics and not one lockup or mouse trail. Only time will tell but with glide 2.54 I locked up within minutes. 2.56 looks promising. DN

Yup, I've noticed the same thing myself...

Thanks for the tip David. I installed them yesterday, and it looks good so far. But I still get frequent lockups in the "Player Info" menu. -Jan Otto

After installing the new Banshee 3Dfx reference drivers, I tried GPL with the new drivers, using just the drivers, and then with the 'Banshee fix' (alias glide wrapper). The native drivers showed some strange textures - ie: wierd billboard thingys protruding onto track just before the underpass a Monza, and a noticeable slowdown in frame rate. Putting the glide wrapper back in, everything cleared up and works just great.

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>I installed the new (5/8/99) 3dfx reference drivers (titled Quake III >compatible :-) for my V2, ran a short race with the AI and it worked great! >Increased fps, smoother graphics and not one lockup or mouse trail. Only >time will tell but with glide 2.54 I locked up within minutes. 2.56 looks >promising. >DN

>I installed the new (5/8/99) 3dfx reference drivers (titled Quake III >compatible :-) for my V2, ran a short race with the AI and it worked great! >Increased fps, smoother graphics and not one lockup or mouse trail. Only >time will tell but with glide 2.54 I locked up within minutes. 2.56 looks >promising. Can you provide more detail about your system specs, and what the framerate improvement was (IOW, how many fps would you say you gained)? I just now tried these drivers and really didn't see any framerate difference vs. the latest Diamond drivers. My system specs are: PII 300 (Dell Dimension XPS D300) 128MB RAM Diamond MX300 soundcard with Diamond drivers "release 1.02" Diamond drivers (ver. m3dii207-9X.exe, dated 03/24/99) Matrox Millennium II AGP videocard with latest drivers (ver. w9x_433.exe, dated 03/15/99) PDPI L4 digital gamecard w/ lastest drivers (ver. 1.41, dated 10/13/98) TSW wheel/pedals on dual brake/throttle axis Win95 OSR2 with DirectX 6 (dx6eng.exe) BTW, with the above configuration I have not seen any lockups at any point in GPL. TIA ============================ Dave Mack (remove "nospamfor_" for correspondence)

> >I installed the new (5/8/99) 3dfx reference drivers (titled Quake III > >compatible :-) for my V2, ran a short race with the AI and it worked great!

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> >Increased fps, smoother graphics and not one lockup or mouse trail. Only > >time will tell but with glide 2.54 I locked up within minutes. 2.56 looks > >promising. > Can you provide more detail about your system specs, and what the > framerate improvement was (IOW, how many fps would you say you > gained)? I just now tried these drivers and really didn't see any > framerate difference vs. the latest Diamond drivers. > My system specs are: > PII 300 (Dell Dimension XPS D300) > 128MB RAM > Diamond MX300 soundcard with Diamond drivers "release 1.02" > Diamond drivers > (ver. m3dii207-9X.exe, dated 03/24/99) > Matrox Millennium II AGP videocard with latest drivers > (ver. w9x_433.exe, dated 03/15/99) > PDPI L4 digital gamecard w/ lastest drivers > (ver. 1.41, dated 10/13/98) > TSW wheel/pedals on dual brake/throttle axis > Win95 OSR2 with DirectX 6 (dx6eng.exe) > BTW, with the above configuration I have not seen any lockups at any > point in GPL.

Hi Dave, First off I'm not sure your current drivers are equipped with glide version 2.56 but I could be wrong. Anyway, I usually test my fps starting in the back of a 14 opponent field. Using this config and the previous 3dfx ref. drivers (with glide 2.53 in GPL directory) my fps were 17-19 at the start. With current ref. drivers (glide 2.56) the fps usually stay out of the ***s. Numbers aside, there is less start stutter with 2.56 on my system. Sounds like you were one of the lucky few that experienced no lockups with 2.54. DN PII 350 64MB RAM STB Velocity 128 4MB Agp Creative V2 8MB SoundBlaster Live Value *using gameport* Logitech Wingman Formula/CH pedals W952 DX6.1

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>I installed the new (5/8/99) 3dfx reference drivers (titled Quake III >compatible :-) for my V2, ran a short race with the AI and it worked great! >Increased fps, smoother graphics and not one lockup or mouse trail. Only >time will tell but with glide 2.54 I locked up within minutes. 2.56 looks >promising. >DN

David, Have you got a link to then new drivers? The latest VoodooII reference driver at 3dfx.com seem to be 2.54 Thanks Mike

> >I installed the new (5/8/99) 3dfx reference drivers (titled Quake III > >compatible :-) for my V2, ran a short race with the AI and it worked great!

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> >Increased fps, smoother graphics and not one lockup or mouse trail. Only > >time will tell but with glide 2.54 I locked up within minutes. 2.56 looks > >promising. > >DN > David, > Have you got a link to then new drivers? The latest VoodooII > reference driver at 3dfx.com seem to be 2.54 > Thanks > Mike

Here http://www.3dfx.com/view.asp?IOID=210

Mike - Look for the "Quake III" drivers G. Patricks