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

[Rolo01]

@ rene_mastar

When you open the device manager and check your graphics card, what does it look like ?
Like this :
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Or does it say 3dfx Voodoo5 ?

If it says Voodoo5 then SFFT driver is not properly installed, that would explain why Texture Management is not working for you.

[rene_mastar]

Originally posted by Rolo01

@ rene_mastar

When you open the device manager and check your graphics card, what does it look like ?
Like this :
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Or does it say 3dfx Voodoo5 ?

If it says Voodoo5 then SFFT driver is not properly installed, that would explain why Texture Management is not working for you.

Back again.

The switch "single chip mode" in the available 3dfx-tools-options on the main screen does not seams to make any differents in rendering on Voodoo5 AGP and "Sims 2".
[ equal errors like in option "fastest performance" ].

2 sample AA and 4 sample AA are working[^], bud performance is very low. Especially in 4 sample AA.
[properly because fillrate / 4 ]

The graphics card in the device manager is named: "3dfx Voodoo Series" and the SFFT-driver-version is 5.14.42.1 (SFFT Alpha 42).

Perhaps trying an older SFFT Alpha driver?

*My System*
Athlon XP-M 2800+
Epox 8k5a2+ VIA-KT333
1GB Infineon RAM
Voodoo 5 5500 AGP
SFFT Alpa42 + 3dfx-Tools
*My System*

[m14radu]

I play today Painkiller.
The game run well, at 1024x768.
When i change the resolution to 1280x1024 the screen flickers.
The same behaviour is happend also in game "Grand Prix Legend".
Any ideas ?

BR.
Radu.

[Raff3DC]

I can confirm this. Seems to be our SLI error again. Every resolution above 1024x768 in Direct3D causes bad performance and flickering.

Greetings,
Raff

[Mikulaish]

NFS Carbon does not run on v5/xp/sfft42.

[Raff3DC]

Hm, Half-Life 2 still freezes with SFFT Alpha 42. I always have to reset ... Happens either with my V5 5500 PCI and V5 6000.

Greetings,
Raff

[Rolo01]

@ Raff
Where does it freeze ?
I remember HL2 ran well with SFFT 41 on my V4 AGP, as well as Episode 1 with Alpha42...

[Raff3DC]

It doesn't matter where I am ... it just freezes. Often after a few seconds ... never longer than a minute.

Greetings,
Raff

[ahavasi]

for me, its freezing too. when the game makes quick save, or sometimes simple... lol and the SFFT driver has got HL2 Ep1 background...........

[SuperFurryFurryThing]

If HL2 runs on a V4 and not a V5/6 then try it in single chip mode, and see what happens. Also try it in 3 time mode (more texture memory). How exactly does it freeze, does windows XP, BSOD with a message that the display driver has stopped responding. Can you kill the task via task manager?. Is it game frozen or the whole machine. If someone could post the settings that it runs on a V4500 that might help, is it running in 3 tile mode or not when working.

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[Raff3DC]

It freezes the whole machine, I always had to reset. It didn't "wake up" again. I also remember testing @ single-chip mode in the past, but I didn't try that with Alpha 42. Maybe I'll do it today.

Greetings,
Raff

[SuperFurryFurryThing]

If you are running XP there is a watchdog timer that will everntualy Blue Screen and tell you that the display driver has stopped responding. I think that it takes perhaps 30 seconds or so. If this doesn't happen it suggests that the freeze may not be down to the graphic card. You don't get the watchdog on Win2K.

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[narciso]

Latest driver with a voodoo5 pci don't run any glide games. SFFT41 runs them well. Check that situation. Thanx.

[benna]

confirmed! ut99 starts with a black screen[]

[SuperFurryFurryThing]

Can you try testing with the glide2x.dll from the Alpha 41. there are different glide dll's in the alpha 42. They may be incompatible with some glide games. I suspect that it is simply the Glide2x.dll shipped with the alpha 42.

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