nfs 2 se\ glide, w98\v4 4500

[tr32z]

i am going thru my old games to see which ones i want to keep and which ones i will give to my nephews.
how do i setup need for speed 2 se to run in glide, on the cd in the setup folder there are 2 other folders glidenr and glidersh, each have a glide2x.dll and fxmemmap.vxd[3Dfx DirectX Driver] in them. if i let the game sit at the main menu, there is a nfs2 movie that runs and in the corner there is the 3dfx logo. just curious.
game is running in software mode cause fsaa in d3d\glide has no effect on the game.

w98, dx8.1b, v4 4500, d3d-1.04.00, glide2x\3x-ksmoky, ogl-1.07.00.

if someone still has this game running in win9x with glide, what are your reg settings:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Electronic Arts\Need For Speed II SE

do you have any switch in the short cut?
ex:    "G:\Need For Speed II SE\nfs2sen.exe"  [-d3d0]  
like nfs hs uses that switch -d3d0

[tr32z]

found the answer:
i had to copy the nfs2ea.exe[3dfx version] from the nfs2se cd to the folder it installed into, then changed the shortcut to point to nfs2ea.exe.
now i all i have to figure out is how to get incar camera to work, nfs2sen.exe allows for 4 camera views but 3dfx version nfs2ea.exe only has 3 views.

[Rolo01]

As far as I know there was no incar view in the 3dfx version of the game...

[SADISTHAYVAN]

IM NFS2 SE NOT 3DFX IM GRAPÝCS ADAPTER VOODOO3 3000 OLD COMPUTER

P3 750 SOCET CPU + SOCET+SLOT CONVERTER
256MB SDRAM PC 133 MHZ
40 GB MAXTOR HDD 7200 RPM
GÝGABYTE BX2000+ MAINBOARD
16MB VOODOO3 3000 AGP TV OUT
OLD COMPUTER NFS2 SE NO 3DFX PLAY

[Nightbird]

IM NFS2 SE NOT 3DFX IM GRAPÝCS ADAPTER VOODOO3 3000 OLD COMPUTER

Hum, do you want to say that you ran NFS2 SE on a Voodoo 3 ?

[SADISTHAYVAN]

NO RUN NFS2SE NO 3DFX VERSION PLAY

[Nightbird]

@ SADISTHAYVAN
What card are you using ?
i have really difficulties to understand you, sorry.

[scholl]

Originally posted by tr32z

found the answer:
i had to copy the nfs2ea.exe[3dfx version] from the nfs2se cd to the folder it installed into, then changed the shortcut to point to nfs2ea.exe.
now i all i have to figure out is how to get incar camera to work, nfs2sen.exe allows for 4 camera views but 3dfx version nfs2ea.exe only has 3 views.

[Phobos]

I#180;ve got the same probleme here.

Yesterday i was kinda "clean up" my 3dfx collection and found in an Intense Voodoo Rush Box a Copy of NFS2 SE.

Now i#180;m trying to get that game runing with 3dfx glide on my main sys (XP Prof. SP1, 2x V2 in SLI mode accel. my 6800GT).

The game runs pretty fine in normal mode - but the hints here (with copying the exe) don#180;t work.

I get an error message - less then 1MB of HDD memory available - and if i#180;m clicking ok i stuck on a black screen.

Heard that maybe it#180;s an incampability with Merlins Drives (using FastVoodoo 4.0 Gold), but i not willing to set up another - it#180;s working pretty fine with unreal, quake and other great classic.

Any suggestion, what i can do to solve this problem?

[Nightbird]

@ Phobos
I own your version of the game.
So i tried with my Voodoo 5 under Millenium
- in software mode
- in glide :

Copy the NFS2SEA.EXE file from the ROOT directory of the
game CD-ROM in your Need for Speed directory into your hd.
Set up a new shortcut to the desktop for this file to run Need for Speed II SE in glide.
BUT with the glide2.dll in the last FastVoodoo2 4.0 for Win2k/XP, you see only the logo 3dfx and the game doesn't start.
So you will need to backup/rename this glide2 (1.0.1.106) as in glide2.dll.back.
Then d/l the last 3dfx driver 3.02.02 for Win2k/Nt or the FastVoodoo 3.5 for Win2k/XP and extract the glide2.dll (Glide Driver Version : 2.56.00.0459) and put it in your system.
Try to run the game.

[Phobos]

Thx for the hint!

I tried agian with the .dll#180;s of the fix for FV4.0 and now i runs like hell.

I dont see any 3dfx symbol starting the game, but i#180;m quiet sure it runs now on the V2#180;s - i can choose car details now i the option menu and there are the good old effects like rain oder moskitos splashing against the screen.

But i#180;m still a bit confused. The eges look awfull, is there any way to get a higher resolution or using some filters and anti aliasing?

I played the game on a Pentium 1 and my first Voodoo card (ColorMaster V1) some time and thought that it looked much smoother.

Or was this just the crappy 15 inch CRT?

[Nightbird]

Hum, if you run in Glide, you will see really the difference, specially with the software mode.
I ran this game with a V5 but for a V2, i need to set up an other machine.

[Phobos]

Hmmm, i can see the effects but it doesn#180;t look like glide - strange thing...

Any ideas?

[Phobos]

Damn it!

I tried WickedGl and MiniGl drivers, reinstalled the FV 4.0 and got major problems with other games as well. Unreal looked awful, UT and UT2k4 stuck at startup and Quake3 freezed.

After hours i could manage to clean up this driver mess, but NFS2 still looks like without any filter - i#180;m pissed off. =(

[Nightbird]

WickedGl and MiniGl drivers

They will not run the game.
I wonder if you're starting really in glide because between the software mode and the glide mode, it's really a visual difference !
For now, i can do or see nothing because as said i must setup a machine with 1 or 2 Voodoo 2 so change also the main gfx card.
Hum, i 'm not an XP user, so that will be under Win2k or perhaps under Win95(OSR2), like the original game.