Please help! GPL + Voodoo 3 3000 doesn't work right!

I have the following problem: On my Pentium III 450 System with a Voodoo 3 3000 card GPL doesn't work right. After starting GPL.EXE nothing happens, only a system reset brings me back to the Windows 98 desktop. After that I changed some Voodoo settings and activated the Triple Buffering in the control panel. Now GPL starts but now the menus are flickering badly. Everything is screwed up and elements of the previous menus are shown on the current menus (for example: If I go to the options menu and leave it to go to the track selection, I can read still read some elements of the option menu). The game graphics are working good, but if I press ALT+F or PAUSE those text lines get screwed up too. Please help!

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> I have the following problem: > On my Pentium III 450 System with a Voodoo 3 3000 card GPL doesn't work > right. After starting GPL.EXE nothing happens, only a system reset brings me > back to the Windows 98 desktop. > After that I changed some Voodoo settings and activated the Triple Buffering > in the control panel. Now GPL starts but now the menus are flickering badly. > Everything is screwed up and elements of the previous menus are shown on the > current menus (for example: If I go to the options menu and leave it to go > to the track selection, I can read still read some elements of the option > menu). > The game graphics are working good, but if I press ALT+F or PAUSE those text > lines get screwed up too. > Please help!

Disable the triple buffering, download the latest voodoo3 drivers and GPL 1.2. -- Olav K. Malmin remove spam when replying

Allready done that: new drivers and GPL patch 1.2! Disabling triple buffering has the following result: after stating GPL.EXE the screen becomes black and nothing happens (the starting screen of GPL (the GPL logo) is not shown!)! I don't know what to do!

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> > Disable the triple buffering, download the latest voodoo3 drivers and GPL > 1.2. > > -- > > Olav K. Malmin > > remove spam when replying > Allready done that: new drivers and GPL patch 1.2! > Disabling triple buffering has the following result: after stating GPL.EXE > the screen becomes black and nothing happens (the starting screen of GPL > (the GPL logo) is not shown!)! > I don't know what to do!

Ok, sorry for that very general help i tried first, but as long as you didn't write that you had latest of everything i just couldn't know. Some time ago someone said that you had to check the "Disable Splash Screen" in your V3 properties box. Generally this is a great idea, so you no longer have to wait for that stupid 3dfx logo :) I haven't really had any problems at all with my V3 and GPL, so I guess that's all the help i can give. Re-installing GPL is always a good idea though, just remember to back up those precious setups :) -- Olav K. Malmin remove spam when replying

I had the same problem after installing the GPL 1.2 patch. It turned out that I had to disable the Creative Launcher software (Liveware 3.0) for the SB Live card. That did the trick! PIII-550 128 mb Asus P3B-F SB Live Voodoo 3000 Let me know if this helps, James

Thank you James! After I turned out the Creative Launcher GPL works fine!

> Thank you James! After I turned out the Creative Launcher GPL works fine! Great to hear that. I had my Creative Lancher disabled from the beginning, so that's the reason I never had that problem.

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> > I had the same problem after installing the GPL 1.2 patch. It turned out > > that I had to disable the Creative Launcher software (Liveware 3.0) for > the > > SB Live card. That did the trick! > > PIII-550 > > 128 mb > > Asus P3B-F > > SB Live > > Voodoo 3000 > > Let me know if this helps, > > James

-- Olav K. Malmin remove spam when replying

GPL 1.2 P3 450 128RAM Voo3k SBlive Dx7...everything working fine both with and without triple buffering and 3dfx logo. Try reinstalling GPL. Mea***er

Go to Glide/OpenGl in the 3dfx tweaks menu, and check the "Limit texture memory to 2MB" box. That will do the trick. Happy racing. Knudse