Video Problem

Started by Sir Golitech, 14 March 2004, 21:52:24

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Sir Golitech

14 March 2004, 21:52:24
Halo tells me, "This driver(amigamerlin)is known to have serious issues with this game".

I just picked up a Voodoo 5 5500 PCI from a buddy of mine, figured I'd play around with it and this is what I found.No more halo, all this sys specs are good.hmmmm
The HULK
AMD64 3200 Venice 2GHz OC'd 2.7 w/ XP-120 / PCMark02: 8902
OCZ 2X512MB Platinum PC3200 REV.2 / PCMark02: 12072
Sapphire 9800 256MB w/ Artic Silencer & Copper sinks / 3DMark01: 16390
WD 7200 80GB/8MB cache--OCZ Powerstream 520W--ABIT AV8--XP Pro (SP2)--DX9.0c

Glide

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14 March 2004, 21:58:32
Sorry but at this moment Halo is an unsupported game by Voodoo cards and/or voodoo drivers. It is a title perfecly matches nVIDIA video hardware specs while it doesn't run well on ATI or other devices like these 3dfx.

Remember that Halo is a XBox game...

Sir Golitech

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14 March 2004, 22:04:49 Last Edit: 14 March 2004, 22:12:34 by Sir Golitech
The reason why I even tried the Voodoo on Halo is because the MX400 was giving me lag.All setting were turned down low even and it just seemed to slow.Well my B-Day is coming up next week and my wife & mum are going in on getting me the 9600XT. Mass improvment over the MX400 which is just recently new due to the fact that my Voodoo 3 2000 after 5 years crapped out.

EDIT:
Is it very hard to flsh the BIOS of this Voodoo 5 5500?
The HULK
AMD64 3200 Venice 2GHz OC'd 2.7 w/ XP-120 / PCMark02: 8902
OCZ 2X512MB Platinum PC3200 REV.2 / PCMark02: 12072
Sapphire 9800 256MB w/ Artic Silencer & Copper sinks / 3DMark01: 16390
WD 7200 80GB/8MB cache--OCZ Powerstream 520W--ABIT AV8--XP Pro (SP2)--DX9.0c

amp_man

#3
15 March 2004, 04:12:43
Flashing the BIOS of a V5 gives little to no increase in performance. I don't even know what they're actually supposed *to* do.
When the sun goes down, the music turns up...

Windows XP Pro|Athlon XP 1800+|Voodoo 5 5500 AGP|MSI K7T266-A|768MB DDR 2700 RAM|SonicEdge 5.1 Sound Card

Blazkowicz

#4
15 March 2004, 23:02:55
a funny thing is that there's a screenshot of Halo on the voodoo5 box [8D]



this was before bungie was bought out by Microsoft. and as everyone knows we just got a ****ed up conversion from Xbox (very slow, two years late, ugly, and feels like a console fps [}:)])
 

Blazkowicz

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15 March 2004, 23:09:39 Last Edit: 15 March 2004, 23:11:48 by Blazkowicz
flashing the BIOS is very simple (boot DOS and run the program)
I did that (BIOS 1.06 -> 1.18 modded) and noticed absolutely no difference [^]

it's useful for owners of voodoo4 MAC or voodoo5 MAC who want to use the  card on their PC (with working DVI out)
 
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