greetings all!

[Harlequin]

a long time no see to all of those who know me - and huge congrats to the continued developement of 3dfx drivers!


glad to see koolsmokey , amigamerlin , colourless , and of course hank are all still about!

now some good news :- for anyone that remembers , i thought that my v56k was toast after my kt333 motherboard went bang about a year ago - well i was wrong ; as today i re installed it in my sons machine!

so a few questions : which are the best drivers to use now? im using amiga`s 3.0 final atm , but there isn`t any 32bit colour - and 3d performance seems low , even though the fill rate is arond 980 m/texels per sec in 3dmark , im about 1000 points down on the last time i benched.... so all 4 chips are running , as the fill rate shows - but its just slow.


any ideas?


maybe its just the card - its a rev 2700 , with the rework for the power done by hank , 2 years ago

oh and if you want another beta tester - drop me a line! i`ve still got the bench results for one of the very first driver sets for the v56k that worked in 4 chip mode in winxp (thx kool!)

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

Originally posted by Harlequin

a long time no see to all of those who know me - and huge congrats to the continued developement of 3dfx drivers!


glad to see koolsmokey , amigamerlin , colourless , and of course hank are all still about!

now some good news :- for anyone that remembers , i thought that my v56k was toast after my kt333 motherboard went bang about a year ago - well i was wrong ; as today i re installed it in my sons machine!

so a few questions : which are the best drivers to use now? im using amiga`s 3.0 final atm , but there isn`t any 32bit colour - and 3d performance seems low , even though the fill rate is arond 980 m/texels per sec in 3dmark , im about 1000 points down on the last time i benched.... so all 4 chips are running , as the fill rate shows - but its just slow.


any ideas?


maybe its just the card - its a rev 2700 , with the rework for the power done by hank , 2 years ago

oh and if you want another beta tester - drop me a line! i`ve still got the bench results for one of the very first driver sets for the v56k that worked in 4 chip mode in winxp (thx kool!)

Welcome back Harlequin !

Okay I don't know you yet, but what does that matter

Well I suggest that AmigaMerlin 3.0XP Final are the best Voodoo3/4/5 drivers under WinXP Pro, but what I recommend, is that you install Win98SE and AmigaMerlin 2.9, that is the best configuration setup for all Voodoo cards.

I run Win98SE + AmigaMerlin 2.9 on my XP2700+ A7V333-R 1x 512MB PC-2700 + V5 5500 AGP Rev 2500A for about 7 months now without any troubles what so ever. 16 as 24 as 32 bit mode work fine.

But anyways, I can't decide for you, I can only give you tips.

With Friendly Regards,

Obi-Wan Kenobi

[Harlequin]

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=4255493

check out the date on that project

its my sons machine so i might re install winme

[amp_man]

Well, with the way things are going ow, it seems like the main focus of support around this place (ie TnL patchs, rewritten D3D cores) is going to windows 2k/XP users. Depending on the rest of yours kids specs, I would toss XP in that and call it good, along with AM3.0.

[Harlequin]

well , its presently running winxp , with DX9.0b and the AM 3.0 drivers

BUT

its only running in 16bit colour on games - forced 32bit causes lock ups ; and although the fill rate says its running all 4 chips (980 m/texels) the speed just isn`t there .

the old 1.04.01 beta ran faster

oh and UT crashes

[lecram25]

GODDAMN Simon! Where have you been? You haven't been online in like years! Aquo's been asking about you too...Sign onto msn some time...

Glad to see you're back though

[amp_man]

Reinstall the drivers, maybe even reinstall XP (eXtreme Pain). Runs fine in 32-bit on a 5500.