New Banshee Card

I've installed a new banshee card and I'm having problems.When I put glide2x.dll into the GPL directory the game will only run in software mode. I choose 3dfx on the options page, exit the game, return to the game, and the option for 3dfx has not been saved. I've reinstalled a number of times but it's the same problem. When I put the glide2x.dll from the Banshee fix patch into the gpl directory I get a small gpl screen in the upper left corner of my screen and when I move the mouse I get mouse trails. The 3dfx option stays on in this situation. Has anybody had similar problems? I haven't driven gpl for 4 days and I'm starting to taste that cold turkey. roy

Buzz, Get the most recent version of the Banshee patch here: http://www.grandprix2.com/gpl/patches.htm. The small screen in the corner is an unavoidable byproduct of the patch. The readme file explains. You must use this patch to avoid texture corruption in GPL if using the Banshee. The upcoming 1.1 GPL patch is supposed to fix this problem with Banshee and Voodoo3 video cards. For now the banshee patch is a pretty successful fix. The small menu screens aren't that big a deal. The most recent banshee patch fixes the mouse trails problem. Good luck zubcut

I forgot to mention that it is mandatory that the screen resolution in the game and in the Glide.ini file are the same. If they are different the game will not run. All the information is in the readme and the Glide.ini files that you download. Zubcut

> Have installed the latest patch. Screen resolution same as in glide.ini file. > I get the full screen now, but the screen flickers and then the mouse trails > begin when I move the mouse. Uninstall the patch, do you still get the same behavior? If so, try turning off 'force triple buffering' in the 3dfx control panel as documented in the GPL readme.txt file. - George

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>I've installed a new banshee card and I'm having problems.When I put >glide2x.dll into the GPL directory the game will only run in software >mode. I choose 3dfx on the options page, exit the game, return to the >game, and the option for 3dfx has not been saved. I've reinstalled a >number of times but it's the same problem. >When I put the glide2x.dll from the Banshee fix patch into the gpl >directory I get a small gpl screen in the upper left corner of my screen >and when I move the mouse I get mouse trails. The 3dfx option stays on >in this situation. >Has anybody had similar problems? I haven't driven gpl for 4 days and >I'm starting to taste that cold turkey. >roy

Roy, That's the only way that you can get the Banshee based cards to work,as Papyrus never came out with a patch for the problem. I found it to be so bad,that I returned my Banshee card and got a plain Jane Voodoo 2 12MB instead. But running the glide wrapper has allowed me off line to run gpl at higher resolutions than the default. I still have to run the Glide2xver2.53 in my gpl directory to run online. Joel Willstein

Get the Glide 2.56 drivers and you wont have to use either the wrapper or have 2.53 in your gpl directory.

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> >I've installed a new banshee card and I'm having problems.When I put > >glide2x.dll into the GPL directory the game will only run in software > >mode. I choose 3dfx on the options page, exit the game, return to the > >game, and the option for 3dfx has not been saved. I've reinstalled a > >number of times but it's the same problem. > >When I put the glide2x.dll from the Banshee fix patch into the gpl > >directory I get a small gpl screen in the upper left corner of my screen > >and when I move the mouse I get mouse trails. The 3dfx option stays on > >in this situation. > >Has anybody had similar problems? I haven't driven gpl for 4 days and > >I'm starting to taste that cold turkey. > >roy > Roy, > That's the only way that you can get the Banshee based cards to work,as > Papyrus never came out with a patch for the problem. I found it to be so > bad,that I returned my Banshee card and got a plain Jane Voodoo 2 12MB > instead. But running the glide wrapper has allowed me off line to run gpl at > higher resolutions than the default. I still have to run the Glide2xver2.53 > in my gpl directory to run online. > Joel Willstein

I guess I don't understand. I put my Banshee in the computer, installed the latest driver in it's default, started up GPL, selected 3dfx, and played at 1024x768. No installing extra dll's into other directories. It works just fine. Clearly that's not the only way to get banshee cards to work. They work just the same as plain jane voodoo's. wilbur

Good luck Wilbur. I'd be very surprised if you didn't develop severe texture corruption in GPL without the Banshee patch. Mine was ok for a while too. Zubcut

which is better for playing GPL Banshee 16 meg or Voodoo 2 12 meg ???????????? Capp

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> > I forgot to mention that it is mandatory that the screen resolution in the > > game and in the Glide.ini file are the same. If they are different the game > > will not run. All the information is in the readme and the Glide.ini files > > that you download. > > Zubcut > > Have installed the latest patch. Screen resolution same as in glide.ini file.I get the full screen now, but the screen flickers and then the mouse trails begin when I move the mouse. This is a Gigabyte Banshee card I'm using. Log file reads Glide remapped....Glide unmapped. > > > I've installed a new banshee card and I'm having problems.When I put > > > glide2x.dll into the GPL directory the game will only run in software > > > mode. I choose 3dfx on the options page, exit the game, return to the > > > game, and the option for 3dfx has not been saved. I've reinstalled a > > > number of times but it's the same problem. > > > When I put the glide2x.dll from the Banshee fix patch into the gpl > > > directory I get a small gpl screen in the upper left corner of my screen > > > and when I move the mouse I get mouse trails. The 3dfx option stays on > > > in this situation. > > > Has anybody had similar problems? I haven't driven gpl for 4 days and > > > I'm starting to taste that cold turkey. > > > roy

I have a Banshee and a buddy of mine had a Voodoo 2, when ran pretty much the same ...that is until he yanked the Voodoo 2 out for a Voodoo 3 3000.....now I don't talk to him anymore :) Norm

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> which is better for playing GPL > Banshee 16 meg or Voodoo 2 12 meg > ???????????? > Capp > > > I forgot to mention that it is mandatory that the screen resolution in

the > > > game and in the Glide.ini file are the same. If they are different the game > > > will not run. All the information is in the readme and the Glide.ini files > > > that you download. > > > Zubcut > > > Have installed the latest patch. Screen resolution same as in glide.ini file.I get the full screen now, but the screen flickers and then the mouse trails begin when I move the mouse. This is a Gigabyte Banshee card I'm using. Log file reads Glide remapped....Glide unmapped. > > > > I've installed a new banshee card and I'm having problems.When I put > > > > glide2x.dll into the GPL directory the game will only run in software > > > > mode. I choose 3dfx on the options page, exit the game, return to the > > > > game, and the option for 3dfx has not been saved. I've reinstalled a > > > > number of times but it's the same problem. > > > > When I put the glide2x.dll from the Banshee fix patch into the gpl > > > > directory I get a small gpl screen in the upper left corner of my screen > > > > and when I move the mouse I get mouse trails. The 3dfx option stays on > > > > in this situation. > > > > Has anybody had similar problems? I haven't driven gpl for 4 days and > > > > I'm starting to taste that cold turkey. > > > > roy

I just bought a Banshee card too. The performance compared to my old voodoo2 is astonishing.....Im getting 36FPS where i would only get 30 and the colors and fluidity surprised me. I'm using the patch for GPL too, but its not too inconvenient to have smaller menus is it? FPS too) Definately the banshee heving its problems, is a good card and was obviously the step between voodoo2 and 3(which are basically the same design but with slightly high performance, 2D/3D etc)Best thing about it is=Banshees are real cheap now ;o) Ross Zubcut a crit dans le message ...