GPL, Voodoo3 and 1.04.00 drivers

Works fine here. Marc

Newest drivers work good on everything for me too. I also tested with Wintune98. The new drivers fixed the horrible OpenGL 32bit scores too (like it matters). For me, they're the best so far. Slot

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> On Mon, 31 Jan 2000 02:48:43 GMT, "Marc Collins" > >Works fine here. > Glad to hear it Marc. Anyone have a more helpful contribution? The > drivers released on 27th Jan are the problem. They fix some bugs in > other games but wreck GPL. > -- > Derek James

No they don't wreck GPL. The helpful part of my post was to look elsewhere for your problem. Marc.

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> On Mon, 31 Jan 2000 02:48:43 GMT, "Marc Collins" > >Works fine here. > Glad to hear it Marc. Anyone have a more helpful contribution? The > drivers released on 27th Jan are the problem. They fix some bugs in > other games but wreck GPL. > -- > Derek James

And other versions of the drivers did not do this? The 1.04.00 drivers did not and do not wreck GPL. Adjusting them wrongly may give you lousy results. Older versions of the Voodoo drivers actually were incompatible with GPL in certain ways (way back in the olden days of 1998), and there were about 10,000 posts here on the topic over a long period of time. That's why it makes a difference whether your claim is exaggerated or just plain wrong. Marc. > On Tue, 01 Feb 2000 02:38:08 GMT, "Marc Collins" > >No they don't wreck GPL. The helpful part of my post was to look elsewhere

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> >for your problem. > Well, they do wreck GPL - if you had triple buffering enabled. I have > now disabled that and all is again fine with GPL. > -- > Derek James

What limitation of Glide support? There isn't one. For months we all blathered on about Papy's poor support of Glide since GPL had problems that other titles did not. All of a sudden, 3dfx updates their drivers and GPL works perfectly. It has worked perfectly with 3dfx drivers since then. Many people have gamma setting problems and many people don't know how to adjust the advanced settings of their Voodoo card, which suggests that the documentation is weak, since it is not an isolated incident. Many people overheat their Voodoo card, especially by overclocking it and it locks up (including in GPL). However, there is no problem with GPL and Glide drivers that any of the rest of us know about. Marc. > On Wed, 02 Feb 2000 04:34:51 GMT, "Marc Collins" > >The 1.04.00 drivers did not and do not wreck GPL. Adjusting them wrongly > >may give you lousy results. Older versions of the Voodoo drivers actually

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> >were incompatible with GPL in certain ways (way back in the olden days of > >1998), and there were about 10,000 posts here on the topic over a long > >period of time. That's why it makes a difference whether your claim is > >exaggerated or just plain wrong. > Well, in your opinion it does. All I know is that I install the drivers > and GPL breaks to a state where it is unusable to any serious extent. I > therefore make the not unreasonable conclusion that the 1.04.00 drivers > have wrecked GPL (for me). > If you'd suggested I look at my lousy settings in the first place rather > than blindly asserting there must be something else wrong because it > worked just fine for you then I'd have been more grateful. > At least I (and no doubt some others) are now aware of this limitation > of the glide support in GPL. Apparently this also happens in N3. > -- > Derek James

I'm a computer no-nothing who just wants to drive so here's my bit on voodoo2/3 the v3 only worked for me with gpl 1.2 / DX7 / 1.04 Drivers. I also overclock my AMD k2 by 50mhz and my v3 2000 to 170mhz and I can't say I've had a lock up. I use plenty of ball-bearing fans maybe that's the key to that one. Hope that set-up works for you , 'cos I know where I'll be posting if I do *** things up Cheers , Bog > What limitation of Glide support? There isn't one. For months we all > blathered on about Papy's poor support of Glide since GPL had problems that > other titles did not. All of a sudden, 3dfx updates their drivers and GPL > works perfectly. > It has worked perfectly with 3dfx drivers since then. Many people have > gamma setting problems and many people don't know how to adjust the advanced

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> settings of their Voodoo card, which suggests that the documentation is > weak, since it is not an isolated incident. Many people overheat their > Voodoo card, especially by overclocking it and it locks up (including in > GPL). However, there is no problem with GPL and Glide drivers that any of > the rest of us know about. > Marc. > > On Wed, 02 Feb 2000 04:34:51 GMT, "Marc Collins" > > >The 1.04.00 drivers did not and do not wreck GPL. Adjusting them

wrongly > > >may give you lousy results. Older versions of the Voodoo drivers > actually > > >were incompatible with GPL in certain ways (way back in the olden days of

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> > >1998), and there were about 10,000 posts here on the topic over a long > > >period of time. That's why it makes a difference whether your claim is > > >exaggerated or just plain wrong. > > Well, in your opinion it does. All I know is that I install the drivers > > and GPL breaks to a state where it is unusable to any serious extent. I > > therefore make the not unreasonable conclusion that the 1.04.00 drivers > > have wrecked GPL (for me). > > If you'd suggested I look at my lousy settings in the first place rather > > than blindly asserting there must be something else wrong because it > > worked just fine for you then I'd have been more grateful. > > At least I (and no doubt some others) are now aware of this limitation > > of the glide support in GPL. Apparently this also happens in N3. > > -- > > Derek James