Fastvoodoo2: glitch in rb3d & no driver demo

[jasper v.]

Dear all,

I use a good old Voodoo2 card to play Red Baron 3D. I recently had to do a fresh install of Windows XP, and then re-installed RB3D and the Fastvoodoo2 4.0 XP Gold Edition driver as usual. However, i now have a small glitch in RB3D: while flying, every 1,5 seconds the game freezes for a millisecond. I thought this might be an issue within the game, but then i noticed that i can`t play the Fastvoodoo driver demos: i get a message "error in demo6030.exe" (same with the donut demo).

I initially got the same message when starting RB3D ("error in Red Baron  3D"), until i downloaded the glide3x.dll from this forum. I did not have to do this the last time i last installed the game.

All this is probably connected somehow, but i can`t quite put my finger on it! Any clues?!
Cheers,

Jasper.

[ps47]

see here: http://helppage.3dfx.sk/#SLIdrivers

[jasper v.]

Thanks for the quick reply. I installed Koolsmoky`s driver, but it makes no difference: i still get the same slightly bumpy ride. Playing with refresh rate/resolution didn`t help either.

Note that i have the same problem with a version of RB3D that was already installed on a second hard disk in the same computer.

Any other suggestions??

[Glide]

Do you get this issue with other games too? Can you change the PCI slot where Voodoo2 card is installed?

Let us know,

Thank you,

Bye bye

[ps47]

try limiting the memory with the V2 tweaker (its in the link I have provided),I think redbaron3d doesnt like when it has too much framebuffer memory available..

[jasper v.]

The problem is over! But the way it happened puzzles me. All i did was remove an old Creative sound card which i did not use. (I wanted to connect a Sidewinder joystick to it`s gameport, but XP refused the driver). Then i decided to check if this perhaps made any difference and voila - glitch-free flying. I never touched the Voodoo card! Does this make any sense???

BTW I did not have the glitch in Urban Assault. And reducing memory with the tweaker did not help.

I decided to switch back tot the 3dfx driver. Koolsmoky`s made the graphics look a little dark. And now i can also see the driver demo!
Anyway, hope this will help somebody else sometime...

[ps47]

old soundcards can be a lot of pain,thats one thing for sure.anyway,glad you got it running