Bad flicker in DirectDraw Games

[johnlinford]

Hello!
   I've installed the amigamerlin drivers 2.5se on Windows XP, and all my DirectDraw games have terible flickers.  For example, in Baldur's Gate (#1) the cursor and sprites flicker.  I don't have this problem with the driver that comes with XP (the microsoft signed one), but that driver doesn't have glide support.  The problem also goes away if I run dxdiag and disable hardware accelleration for DirectDraw, but then my games run SLOW. Detailed specs follow:

AMD-K62 500Mhz
Voodoo5 5500 PCI
256 MB Ram
Windows XP, service pack 1

Any help would be lovely!
~John C.

Hey amigamerlin!  Thanks for making a glide/opengl driver for XP that ACTUALLY WORKS!  I love your drivers!

[Glide]

Welcome to forum ...

Do you have install chipset mainboard driver?
If yes, try solving problem with DirectX 9 setup.

If you need, i'm here

[johnlinford]

Welcome to forum ...

Thanks!  I feel welcome.

Do you have install chipset mainboard driver?

Erm, I'm not sure.  I probably haven't.  How would I do that?

If yes, try solving problem with DirectX 9 setup.

Oops!  I should have mentioned, I've tried dx8, dx8.1, and dx9.0 and they all have the same problem.

~John C.

[ROTOR]

Hello  
 
I am ROTOR, if you have problems with games that uses Direct Draw you make the following thing:  
 
Enable -> Mip_map Dithering.  
Disable -> D3DGuardband Clipping.  
 
If you use games that also use acceleration OpenGL like Baldur´s Gate II you also make the following thing:  
 
Enable -> Mip_map Dithering.    
Disable -> Glide Guardband Clipping.  
Disable -> OpenGL Guardband Clipping.  
Disable -> Hidden Surface Removal.  
Disable -> OpenGL Z-Culling  
 
I hope with this your problem is solved.

[johnlinford]

Thanks ROTOR for the reply, but it didn't work.  I spent some time with it yesterday, and nothing I change in the 3dfx control panel changes the flicker.  The only way I have found yet is to disable harware accelleration entirely under the Display Properties box, or, to run dxdiag and disable hardware accelleration for Direct Draw.  I DO NOT want to do this, since my games run S-L-O-W when I have no accelleration enabled.  Please!!  Someone!! Anyone!! Do you have any idea how I can fix this??

Again, my specs (so people don't have to hunt backwards through the thread):
AMD-K62 500Mhz
Voodoo5 5500 PCI
256 MB Ram
Windows XP, service pack 1
DirectX 9.0

[johnlinford]

Whooopie!  I've fixed it!  Here's what I did:

1)  Uninstall 3dfx tools.
2)  Reboot.
3)  Search HD and remove ANYTHING with 3dfx or voodoo in it.
4)  Search registry and remove ANYTHING with 3dfx or voodoo in it.
5)  Install 3dhq 1.09 Beta 10 Drivers for WindowsXP.
6)  Reboot.
7)  Open 3dfx underground tools and make the following changes to DirectX settings:
   a)  Enable tripple buffer
   b)  Force mip-map dithering
   c)  Enable vertical sync
   d)  Enable z-buffer optimization
   e)  Buffered frames:  1 pending

After I did ALL that, my games were AWESOME! Ya!  Hope this helps some of you guys.

~John C.

[Amigamerlin]

Originally posted by johnlinford

Whooopie!  I've fixed it!  Here's what I did:

1)  Uninstall 3dfx tools.
2)  Reboot.
3)  Search HD and remove ANYTHING with 3dfx or voodoo in it.
4)  Search registry and remove ANYTHING with 3dfx or voodoo in it.
5)  Install 3dhq 1.09 Beta 10 Drivers for WindowsXP.
6)  Reboot.
7)  Open 3dfx underground tools and make the following changes to DirectX settings:
   a)  Enable tripple buffer
   b)  Force mip-map dithering
   c)  Enable vertical sync
   d)  Enable z-buffer optimization
   e)  Buffered frames:  1 pending

After I did ALL that, my games were AWESOME! Ya!  Hope this helps some of you guys.

~John C.

Hello, If this game works good with 3dhq beta 10 must work better with amigamerlin 2.5 se. D3d section of beta 10 have some nasty bug with 2xfssa and DX7 games (try with Max Payne and let me know).
I remember to al that D3D section is by Koolsmoky that is moderator in one of our section

When you install amigamerlin2.5 se make sure to have read carefully the installation procedure.

Bye