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

[Me]

OK. I've tested The SFFT alpha 48 driver with my Voodoo 3 2000 AGP (original bios)and I couldn't change the resolution and depth ...After I installed the driver I restarted the computer and the resolution was 640x480 4 bit and it could not br changed...I installed the sffttools (thanks for the infos) and I restarted the computer again... No changes...The resolution is unchangeable. My monitor is an Philips 170S(12 ms LCD). The default resolution set by windows after I install the win driver and restart the sys is 1280x1024 32 bit.

My specs : Kobian KT133a FSX, Athlon 1800+, 1Gb SDRAM, Voodoo 3 2000 AGP, Audigy 4 Bulk, Win Media Center 2005(sp2), Philips 170S(12ms)

P.S. :My Voodoo 5 5500 Agp lost the c74 condenser (waiting for a repair)...

[Rolo01]

Okay, here are my first impressions of Alpha 48 :

Pro Evolution Soccer 6 : Works fine, loading menu is visible again

Codename : Panzers Phase 2 works again :
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59.83 KB
Nice work, thank you very much SFFT !

3DMark2000 show a strange behaviour, on my Intel machine it works fine, but on the Athlon XP it looks like this :
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109.06 KB

Ankh 2 has missing textures :
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130.18 KB

Trying to install the SFFT tools on a german XP shows this :
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22.26 KB

[benna]

Same error in an italian XP

[Raff3DC]

I can confirm the problem with a german XP.

Greetings,
Raff

[benna]

I have found an incompatibility between SFFT and latest ATI Catalyst
After a fresh format, when installing SFFT as secondary device and catalyst as primary, after a reboot voodoo5 is unusable: an error occours in Screen properties -> settings saying something like "SFFT driver is designed for a previous version of windows" and "the standard VGA driver has been loaded", and the only resolution available for the voodoo5 is -1 x -1[xx(]
I tried also latest Amigamerlin with same results
This error occurs (probably) since Catalyst 7.5
Please SFFT fix it!
P.S. now i'm using Catalyst 6.10 and SFFT48 without any trouble

[Raff3DC]

The problem comes from Ati/AMD, not SFFT. It occurred in the past too. You have to use older Catalysts ...

Greetings,
Raff

[benna]

Ok thanks:)
I tested SFFT Tools but it don't recognise my card, probably because i use it as secondary device

[roflkopp]

a problem which occurs afaik with al sfft drivers: voodoo5 6000 aa screenshot support is broken. The driver only does screenshots without aa.

[ggab]

i got this blue screen of D.


3dfxvs
the unit has stop in an infinite loop

STOP: 0x000000EA
(0x85DA58D8, 0x85DEE660, 0xF78C2CB4, 0x00000001)



when i launch a glide3x app.(3 seconds only of gameplay) (default glide3x driver)
v4500 agp, wxpsp2, alpha48

thanks

[roflkopp]

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[mhanor]

how to crash SFFT48 (something like ggab posted above):
http://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=358&whichpage=55 (bottom)
I couldn't find how to link to the exact reply

I have some minidumps, if someone needs them

[ggab]

SFFT alpha 49 released!

https://www.3dfxzone.it/dir/news/3dfx/sfft_alpha49_voodoo3_4_5/

[mhanor]

same issues, as above, with SFFT alpha 49
the OGL is the same as SFFT 48, but the alpha 49 driver hangs or gives BSOD under the same conditions as alpha 48

http://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=358&whichpage=55 (@bottom)

[m14radu]

i just install the new driver.
two things:

The Geometry assistant option is disapear.
When i click on the 3dfx icon, and 3dfx Hub there is no reaction... i miss the screen with the card info, VSA number and memory information...

Br.
Radu.

[Raff3DC]

Maybe I'm wrong ... but I remember that the geo assist option never existed/worked on 2k/XP. I used to enable it under Win 98.

Greetings from Germany,
Raff