SFFT alpha drivers - V3/4/5 - Join to Testing

[Nightbird]

So it sounds that we are lucky, we have some godsends to us.

[FBS]

These drivers are really great. Congratulations SFFT job very well done. Only other thing that I would like to mention is that, I think this is driver's issue. It seems like the drivers are missing "Focus" Meaning that I find that when using multiple programs or opening programs they seem to "Hang". To get them to work, I find that I have to click on the window and or desktop. Plus some time when going into full screen with MS Flight Simulator I get a blinking mouse curser on the screen with a small square box around it. To remedy this I must go back to window mode then back to full screen to make it work correctly. Also when changing views I get popping textures and other times they display properly.

[Rampage]

It hasn't much to do with the SFFT drivers, however, NFSU2 isn't running under Windows 98 SE with Evolution drivers.. Sadly, a blank black screen, the game doesn't crash however

Anyone here tried "Flatout" on SFFT? It works with 3danalyze in Windows 98, but it crashes after a few minutes

[Kyon_CoraeL]

WOOHOO looks like SFFT alpha 17 is out.

[ps47]

yeah,and SSFT fixed commandos3,wonder how he did it..hopefully Raziel will put the fix to the evolution driver as well..

[Dautonico]

Hey what are the difference beteween the alpha 17 and the 16 for the V3? Because at least on the system propierties everything is the same...

[chatocl]

SFFT 17 drivers, are a little bit faster on games for my voodoo3
Now dxdiag reset when i run d3d tests (prior versions run without reset)

thats is on WinXP

greetings

[chatocl]

H.L. Counter strike also restart with sfft 17 (in d3d mode) (sfft 16 runs fine)

thats on winxp and voodoo3

[secretfj]

some kind of good news:
before he can't play the game:
Site is: http://jy2.chinesegamer.net/index-all.asp[url]System%20Requirement%20is:[url]http://jy2.chinesegamer.net/index-2-1-1.asp

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and he request help in a local newsgroup and i suggested he to use SFFT Driver (Alpha 17), now he can runs the game(but his final comment is that it's too slow to play, although no image problem)

so that's the report, thanks SFFT for making great DirectX driver for Voodoo

[Amigamerlin]

ok. guys , Alpha 18  are online for testing .

Bye

[r21vo]

just tested alpha18 on nfsu2 demo - i everything works except rendering 3d objects
http://foto.inbox.lv/albums/r21vo/sfft-a18/01_g.jpg - game menu
http://foto.inbox.lv/albums/r21vo/sfft-a18/02_g.jpg - in game

(v4-4500agp on winxp sp2)

btw, i was wondering, is driver development changelog available? would be nice to know what has changed in each version..

[chatocl]

Hi everybody
Can someone else check sfft 18 with a V3 on WinXP
I had these issues
Some app. restart (H.L. counter strike in D3D mode, dxdiag doing the D3D test). This is since SFFT 17

Other app in opengl mode or with minigl run fine but when I exit the pc go to a black screen, no way to see the desktop again.
This is since SFFT 18

Please anybody confirm that, to be sure if this is a driver issue or something on my PC and/or config.

[Dautonico]

Im having similar problems since Sfft 17... The only glide game i play, Driver, simply stop working after i updated the drivers, and when i exit Games that are D3d or OpenGl my desktop get smaller tahn usual, only showing 1/4 of the screen... Can anyboy help me? and i would like to know if its possible to everybody to edit a driver...

[SuperFurryFurryThing]

There does seem to be a problem with V3's since the Alpha 17. I partly removed some of the relevent changes in the Alpha 18. I will remove some more from the next version, I find that certainly the DxDiag program works under Win2K on a V3. I can't test the V3 driver under XP.

SFFT

[Dautonico]

The Dxdiag 'works' normally, it say that all the test´s were ok, but the box with the Directx logo simply spins like crazy, totaly unfocus, very weird, with AmigaSport 3.0 it also happens, but is stilll possible to see the box spinnig...with SFFt drivers the performance really improves, im playing Colin Mcrae 2.0 and blood 2 and with you driver they run with everything on max, but after some time the system crashes