GPL - Voodoo3 Darkness Fixed

After weeks of searching (ever since I bought my V3 2000, actually) I've finally found a cure to the low gamma levels in GPL. It's an old Banshee glide driver copied into the GPL directory. I'm not sure what the exact version number is, but the file GLIDE2X.DLL is dated 10-10-98 and is 305,664 bytes in size. If anyone who's had similar problems (Calling Ed Bain!) wants it, please email me. The side effects of using this driver are texture corruptions in higher resolutions i.e. 800x600 and up (though this should be addressed by the forthcoming patch), and an increase in frame rate over the current V3 retail drivers. The latter was an unexpected surprise! Now if only I could find a way to fix my low gamma levels in Grand Theft Auto... Martin Nigel Mansell RIP!

On Tue, 08 Jun 1999 10:45:03 GMT, [snip] Why not just turn up the GAMMA level in V3 control panel ? Thats what I did. Am I missing something here? -- // email: rrevved at mindspring dot com

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> On Tue, 08 Jun 1999 10:45:03 GMT, > > After weeks of searching (ever since I bought my V3 2000, > >actually) I've finally found a cure to the low gamma levels in GPL. > >It's an old Banshee glide driver copied into the GPL directory. > [snip] > > Now if only I could find a way to fix my low gamma levels in > >Grand Theft Auto... > >Martin > >Nigel Mansell RIP! > Why not just turn up the GAMMA level in V3 control panel ? Thats > what I did. Am I missing something here?

The Gamma setting for Glide in the V3 control panel has no effect... at least it doesn't for me. Trips

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> > On Tue, 08 Jun 1999 10:45:03 GMT, > > > After weeks of searching (ever since I bought my V3 2000, > > >actually) I've finally found a cure to the low gamma levels in GPL. > > >It's an old Banshee glide driver copied into the GPL directory. > > [snip] > > > Now if only I could find a way to fix my low gamma levels in > > >Grand Theft Auto... > > >Martin > > >Nigel Mansell RIP! > > Why not just turn up the GAMMA level in V3 control panel ? Thats > > what I did. Am I missing something here? > The Gamma setting for Glide in the V3 control panel has no effect...

at > least it doesn't for me. > Trips Same here, can you email me the fix? Thanks Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't.

I concur, no effect.

>Why not just turn up the GAMMA level in V3 control panel ? Thats >what I did. Am I missing something here? When using the current retail V3 drivers, the gamma slider in Voodoo3 Tweaks affects only the gamma levels for Direct3D applications and the desktop. Turning up the Glide gamma slider only brightens the 3dfx splash screen. Martin Nigel Mansell RIP!

>When using the current retail V3 drivers, the gamma slider in >Voodoo3 Tweaks affects only the gamma levels for Direct3D applications >and the desktop. Turning up the Glide gamma slider only brightens the >3dfx splash screen. ???????? It works fine for me, with a V32000 & Mag 17" monitor. I don't have the RGB bars locked, and spent some time tweaking them for just the right color balance in GPL. No problem at all with darkness or ineffective sliders. Hmmmm. Steve B. remove "edy" from address for email

On 09 Jun 1999 04:07:04 GMT,

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>>When using the current retail V3 drivers, the gamma slider in >>Voodoo3 Tweaks affects only the gamma levels for Direct3D applications >>and the desktop. Turning up the Glide gamma slider only brightens the >>3dfx splash screen. >???????? It works fine for me, with a V32000 & Mag 17" monitor. I don't have >the RGB bars locked, and spent some time tweaking them for just the right color >balance in GPL. No problem at all with darkness or ineffective sliders. >Hmmmm.

Same here.. [shrug] -- // email: rrevved at mindspring dot com

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>>When using the current retail V3 drivers, the gamma slider in >>Voodoo3 Tweaks affects only the gamma levels for Direct3D applications >>and the desktop. Turning up the Glide gamma slider only brightens the >>3dfx splash screen. >???????? It works fine for me, with a V32000 & Mag 17" monitor. I don't have >the RGB bars locked, and spent some time tweaking them for just the right color >balance in GPL. No problem at all with darkness or ineffective sliders. >Hmmmm.

Hmmmm! What version of V3 drivers are you using? I'd really like to pin down the source of this problem so that I can change the gamma levels of my other "darkened" Glide games. By the way, what's your monitor's refresh rate set at? Martin Nigel Mansell RIP!

>Hmmmm! What version of V3 drivers are you using? I'm still using the ones that shipped with the game: 4.11.01.0441-1.00, dated 3/20/99. I'm also using Gary Petersen's V3 Overclocker 2.4 to run the card at 170mhz, where it's happy as a clam(it ran ok, but with a few minor graphical glitches at 175 - haven't tried more). I have Vsync turned off and Video Filter on HQ. Cheers, Steve B. remove "edy" from address for email