World of Warcraft + VooDoo 5 5500

ahavasi · 28 January 2006, 14:15:13

hi all!

The game is fully playable, and it looks very impressive!!!
but the grass\road textures are in wrong place..

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Nightbird · 28 January 2006, 17:37:02

Quotebut the grass\road textures are in wrong place..

Do you have a picture with the grass\road textures in the right place ? (with an other gfx card if needeed)

ahavasi · 29 January 2006, 13:31:35

Sapphire ATi 9800se @ 9800 16AF

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ahavasi · 29 January 2006, 13:35:03

ahh sorry, I forgot the size... (1024x768) sorry

in3d · 29 January 2006, 16:10:21

Hi,
ahavasi,
yes there are grass\road textures in wrong place but nothing
cretical:)
I also use voodoo5 5500 with sfft alpha 33 driver (and 3dfxTools) Win XP,and in video option I use default values (800x600 24bit-16bit,refresh:60hz,vertical sync:enable)but I don't understand what is vertical sync and why you have disabled it[?]and I think 60hz is the max capacity of voodoo 5 5500 exept if you have overcloaced it.
You can specify what system configuration and drivers you use

the only one problem that I have notice in World of Warcraft it's that sometimes it slowing down(I hava modify 3dfxTools fastest performance and I put it on single chip only for increase compatibility but I don't know if that worked)

I hope that I was not too long and excuse my bad english[:p]
Thenks for any aditional precisions;)

Voodoo5 · 29 January 2006, 18:27:30

@in3d,

If you want to get the maximum performance from your voodoo card, turn off V-sync in your 3dfx tools and/or games (if they give you the option)

The 60hz your mentioning is the current refresh rate of your monitor, if your particular monitor supports higher frequency's (ex. - 75, 85, 100 etc.), please use them as 60hz would give just about anybody a serious headache after a short time of viewing.

ahavasi · 29 January 2006, 18:45:30

Now I using Amigamerlin 3.1 R11.

in3d · 01 March 2006, 08:34:44

Hi all,
For WoW game performances, I noticed that it Distinctly runs better with AM 3.1 r11 than sfft Alpha 33 driver .
And now I put another exemple of some "ground textures corruptions" that I noticed in the game with both AM 3.1r11 and sfft a33 drivers. In this picture you can see a kind of "squars" in ground :

Thenks.

bloodworm · 15 March 2006, 23:29:06

I'm pretty sure that is just lack of memory, as my buddies laptop has a 32Meg ATI mobility7000 and does the same exact thing. 1GIG of system ram is a MINIMUM to keep "lag" away for WOW. and NO it's NOT your connection, it IS the RAM size of your system that slows things down in the big cities..

ArchAngelCD · 20 March 2006, 07:51:35

It probably is a memory problem. Remember, even though the Voodoo5 has 64MB RAM it's really only a 32MB card since the memory is split between the 2 VSA-100 chips.

secretfj · 02 June 2006, 11:21:16

is WoW a OpenGL game ?
if so, try MESA FX latest version~~

cicagl · 28 June 2006, 01:40:58

MesaFX 'gáz' dirver... wow is d3d game

BoomStYx · 18 August 2006, 23:36:26

WoW is both a opengl game and Direct3d game, if you want to try running opengl, do this, go to your WoW directory, create a shortcut of WoW.exe, place it on your desktop, go to properties on the shortcut, and in the target after World of Warcraft\WoW.exe" put -opengl so it would look like "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe" -opengl

thats all. Now the game runs a bit slower in opengl since opengl in WoW isn't done quite well, but give it a shot. I don't have a 3dfx card anymore so I can't test this unfortunately. My guess is the messed up texture problem will be fixed but the games performance may drop to unplayable, but thats my prediction, so I may be wrong.

bloodworm · 21 August 2006, 15:19:41

hmmmmmm. I just did some research on my budies laptop video (for upgrade purposes) and I found out that the ATI mobility 7500 is only a DX 7 card?

?? the mobility 9000 is only a DX 8.1?

capable card? maybe it really IS the DX incompatability and not the lack of video RAM.

in3d · 26 January 2007, 03:42:32

Thanks BoomStYx for this information, I will try with MesaFX or Sage...
But I don't know really how to manipulate these drivers, where I can find somestep by step installation guide please ?

I hope WoW will work faster than with D3D mode

Thanks.

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