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

[ahavasi]

NFS Most Wanted after 5 minutes, I got black screen. the card is working fine whit other games (NFSU1..)

I got SFFT 33

[in3d]

I have sfft alfa33 driver(with 3dfxtools 2.6.1.110) and P4 voodoo5 5500 AGP winXP directx9.I had test some drivers(amigamerlin3.1r11 3.0 and 2.5SE) but there was bugs both in on OS and 3d games too(WarcraftIII)and  displayed ERREUR message.Now I test sfft alfa33,in this moment there are not bug with winXP OS (no erreur messages) since 2 days ,I don't test it with WArcraftIII but I hope that it won't crashing. I wanted just to ask a question:what is a best method to uninstall and install these drivers[?](that can be I have make a bad manipulations,I don't know). thank you for all explanation. and at next for test results.

[mcmagostini]

Here, NFS-MW exits to the desktop randomly
and almost everytime i play. Tried with a32.
The voodoo5 is not on the pc right now to test a33.

Regards

[ahavasi]

Please SFFT optimalize your driver to NFS MW I think its very useful for all V5/V4 users.

[SuperFurryFurryThing]

The VoodooLites OpenGl control panel problems appear to be a bug in MesaFX, it works fine with the 3dfx opengl dll with the latest driver.

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[Rolo01]

SFFT, here are the results :

Alpha 33 : 1715 3DMarks
Alpha 32 : 1866 3DMarks

Alpha 33 : 1714 3DMarks (Texture Management Disabled)

BTW, with Texture Management Disabled Gothic runs without errors and does not BSOD when exiting.

[SuperFurryFurryThing]

Rolo1 do you know how the write back cache is set up on your P4 motherboard. I presumed that the BSOD and texture corruption was down to the texture management.

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[in3d]

I use sfft Alfa 33(and 3dfxtools) with voodoo5 5500 agp winXP. I am at third day of test and there are not erreurs messages appears  when I work in win OS system or with 3d games (WarcraftIII) and I found a new option:its possible now to play with 32bit good[8D], exept some slowing when there are too many effects in the game[] (that can be that because I have only 256Mb of SDRAM[?] ) but I can say that I have play more than 2 hours without bug and is too much beter than hold driver versions.
I have another question :it is important to update
the BIOS version[?](I have 1.06 version).if it's true what is the best version[?]
thank you for all and good continuation;)

[ps47]

BIOS shouldnt really matter.dont update your BIOS,especially if you dont know how.

[Rolo01]

SFFT,
how can I check the write back cache of the motherboard ?
Is that in BIOS or do you know a program for this ?

[SuperFurryFurryThing]

Write caching tends to be a setup option in the BIOS if it is configurable at all.

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[in3d]

hi all,and thenks again to Ps47 for precisions;). I hope that you spoke about craphic card BIOS (and not of motherboard BIOS).
Good,I tried in this days sfft alpha33 combined with latest 3dfxtools(other possibility :VControl) and in this moment there are not major problemes(I have v5 5500AGP Win XP), exept some slowing in my 3d game(WarcraftIII). but I wanted to know :
- someone can explain me how to know if the game use Direct3d or OpenGL/Glide[?]
And thenks for ALL.

[ps47]

pretty much everything that can be explained can be found on the 3dfx helppage,if you dont mind lot of reading.or you can just jump right to the mesafx part..

[in3d]

Thenks Ps47, I learned many things of this sites.
It is neseccary to say also, that is not very clear how to install correctely the latest sfft driver because there are allways the problem of registery keys(3dfxvs)especially when you have the Win XP driver and you want to install sfft.
I have proceed as follow:
1-install the sfft driver using administrator of peripheral in material page and reboot.
2-Suppress the registery folder(3dfxvs) and reboot.
3-Now you notice that are yello exclamation point in the graphic card in administrator of peripheral,I think that is a good sign:) .(I didn't try the point 2 while having win XP standard VGA driver, it's possible that work also[:p]).  
4-Reinstall the Sfft driver as in first and reboot.
I have notice that if yu install 3dfxtools after you have not messages appear during instalation(do you whant to replace this file with this....).
OK I have say what I had to say.
thenks for all aditonel precisions.

[gtxe]

In Delta Force 2 (D3D Mode) you can see through the terrain. The weapon is not visible.



Drivers used: AM 3.1 R11, SFFT 32/33