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

[ps47]

and you will have to rightmouseclick the inf file and select "instal",if memory serves.

[Coolbri1191]

I need help getting my voodoo 5500 agp to work with ANY steam game using SFFT 1.5

Using amigamerlin, i can run Half-Life 2 Deathmatch, but cannot change any resolution without or setting without it crashing. (and the game runs horribly, averaging 4-5fps)

Using SFFT 1.5, I can start HL2DM, but it will crash to the desktop within seconds of being in the main menu.

If anyone has any ideas, I would greatly appreciate it.

PS, Quake 3 and RTCW run GREAT!

[ps47]

try running it in a window.as for resolution and details,you will have to change them with a config file,see the game guide in my sig and select half life2..

[m14radu]

Well i add widescreen resolution on my v5 5500 PCI  ( 1680x1050 ) on DVI output.
I edit and run the 3dfxvs2k.inf file, like in the previous posts but the image is worse.
Any clues ?

[ps47]

unfixable.the max resolution on the DVI is 1600*1200,and 1680 is 80 pixels beyond that,unfortunately.


it looks like this,right?

[m14radu]

Yes, it looks's like this...

With the Powerstirp i have the same result..

When i go into the display control i can chose also resolutoin beyon the 1600. This are only for standard analog signal ?

[ps47]

not sure what do you mean,but the standard vga port should be able to handle even higher resolutions than 1600*1200..

[kalte]

Hi! I've been away for a long time but I returned. I changed my LCD screen to a new one that supports 1680x1050 and it also looks horrible, I'm stuck with 1440x900.

Also I reflashed my V3 2000 to V3 3000 and it's working well so far, I just added a fan to the heatsink.

Now to testing:
- Age of mythology the titans works perfect with SFFT1.5 at 1024x768x16 at high detail.
- With UT99 I have some trouble with the colors since V1.3 I think.
- WC3 works perfect at 1024x768x16 with max detail.
- Heroes III works OK
- Vampire the Masquerade Redemtion works perfect at 1440x900x16 at max detail.

Could not test DVD playback because I need to reinstall PowerDVD. Since version 8.0 I can't play DVD's with V3, it says unknown error.

Keep the good work!!

[m14radu]

I finaly get an V5 5500 DVI running on my Phenom 9850BE platform (4Gb ram and XP OS ), and test it with the SFFT 1.5.
I was surprized  to get the same 3Dmark2001 score ( around 2500 points) on this quadcore CPU as on my Mobile XP ( single core ).
Afaik the 3DMark2001 is very sensible to any sistem change.

[kalte]

Here are screenshots of how's looking UT99 in my machine since some versions of the driver (I don't remember exactly when it started to look like this).

Voodoo3:

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GF6150:
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[ps47]

weird,this should be fixed in the latest releases..if you need to get it working,try my personal mix: http://www.3dfx.cz/download/sfftalpha41_custom.rar

[Tualatin]

SFFT 1.5 drivers work great on a newly acquired V3. I mainly play older NFS games and Unreal/UT on it. Would of been nice to add widescreen support straight out of the box though. Nonetheless, thank you very much for all your hard work.

[kalte]

Hi. I installed yesterday Windows 7 RC (build 7100) 32-bit and my V3 worked without problems with SFFT driver. It's only a little slow with the enhanced GUI (Windows tells that my GPU has 1,0 points of performance vs 5.3-5.9 of the rest of my PC).

Without driver on M7 I was stuck on 800x600x16colors.

I haven't tested any game so far, only the GUI with all default effects (I only deactivated "transparent selection window" and "show window content while moving") and played DivX videos.

Is it possible in someway to integrate MesaFX to SFFT driver to improve even more the compatibility? Maybe it could be possible to add somekind of control panel to activate and deactivate the OpenGL emulation provided by MesaFX (to keep good speed on slow computers).

Thanks for the good work, keep going!!

[m14radu]

I'm very satisfyed with the SFFT 1.5 driver.
With the V5 5500 PCI on a phenom platform, the card simply amaze me !


@SFFT : When do u plan to release the next driver version ?

Keep up the good work mate !

[Raff3DC]

Yeah, I'm also hoping that version 1.5 won't be the last release ... it's already 6 months ago!

SFFT, are you still developing your code?

Greetings from Germany,
Raff