Help please, some questions...

[Manuelson]

D3D is possible with 2 or 3 drivers (if i include Legendgrafix) but with limitations.

Could you tell us more about it? It's an interesting subject..

[MaxFX]

i folks !

I got Need For Speen III-Hot pursuit, and now I'm looking for Ford Racing 2...

SO, I am impressed with the reflections of the cars in NFSIII, It's outstanding, and the colors, amazing, everything is true....glide is different , Nice colors...


BUT !


I am using Fast Voodoo 2 .40 XP GE drivers, there's a registry key in the package that activates AA in Glide mode...I added this key to the registry, but the AA is not that good, I'd like to improve it...

What should I do ? Or there's no way to do this ?

THANKS !

[Manuelson]

you can't..voodoo2 has only a very early AA.. this is the max you can obtain..

[MaxFX]

OK, that's not too much, but it's enough,

I have questions agaig hhehehe:

1) Those 3 CHIPS with the 3DFX LOgo...are they GPU's ? Or what ?
2) How many bit's does Voodoo 2 has ?
3) My Voodoo 2 has 24memory CHIPS, 8 of them are 125mhz ones, and the rest is 100MHz...Why ?

THANKS AGAIN FOLKS !

[secretfj]

Voodoo2 consists of two parts...
one is the texture unit
the another one..i've forget about its proper name...
but if you look at your voodoo card carefully, you can see two chips with "BE" and another with "CK"
those "BE" chips are TMUs, so voodoo can do two texture in one pass..(someone had said that "BE" mean Bruce Lee, and CK...i've forgotten...sorry)

so you can understand why there is 8 chips that's different, coz each unit have its own memory, total 24 = 8 X 3

[Manuelson]

1)yes, there are 3 processors (not a gpu because there is no T&L hardware)
2)16 bit of color depth (65536 colors) it works at 64 bit (I think)
3)I don't know..however, don't exceed the 97 mhz..It could be dangerous..

[Nightbird]

Originally posted by Manuelson

D3D is possible with 2 or 3 drivers (if i include Legendgrafix) but with limitations.

Could you tell us more about it? It's an interesting subject..

Nothing here is unknown :
- the 3dfx beta drivers for Win2k (without support for glide and opengl) 1.00.00 beta Direct3D
- WhitetigerX7 1.02.01-BETA
and now the Legendgrafix

Those 2 last drivers use the 3dfx beta core and the limitations for now seem known very well :
The Voodoo 2 doesn't run like a multimedia media but as a secondary display adapter since the detached device support doesn't exist in the Win2k kernel (so same under XP), the Sli is not supported...

Read the txt inside in the driver, all is very well explained by 3Dfx.

But i can say also that some people succeded to run some games under XP and DirX using the 3dfx beta driver.

[Manuelson]

thank you for the explanation..!

[MaxFX]

Hi folks !!!

Thanks for your help ! It has been very usefull...

I have one thing to tell you...I bought my Voodoo 2 for US$3.00, YES three dollars !!! Cheap isn't it !?

You people have Voodoo's longer than me...SO

I have here:

Quake 3 and 2, I use w/ Voodoo OPENGL
NFS III Hot Pursuit, running in glide...
Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament in GLIDE
Tatical OPS, in GLIDE...

Are there any other nice games that support GLIDE ?

THANKS !!!!!!!!!!

[r21vo]

@MaxFX: there are some lists worth to checking out:

http://home.t-online.de/home/ce-ge/compatib.htm
http://www.mobygames.com/attribute/sheet/p,3/attributeId,14
http://web.archive.org/web/19961023021353/3dfx.com/Developer.html

[MaxFX]

Thanks !!!

The lists are usefull, i'll start downloading all those games...heheheh

But something i'd like to improve is the Anti Alising, which is very weak in Voodoo 2...if there's anyway to do this, please....tell me.

Thanks again and again !!!

[r21vo]

I don't know how good is AntiAliasing in v2 - never seen it, but afaik it's early implementation an that's why it doesn't look superb. Anyway, can you take screenshots of some scene with and without AA enabled, so we can compare the images?

[MaxFX]

OK, i'll take the screenshots.

I just need a place to host the pictures...

Thanks !

[Glide]

[OT Reply]

Manuelson and Nightbird, just now you are moderators of all Gaming with Voodoos forums so have power to close any against rules discussions.

Good works and later.

Glide

Bye bye

[Manuelson]

thank you! :-)