Attn: Voodoo 3 owners..do NOT use 1.04 drivers..read inside

[oldspice 0]

This may be old hat, but i noticed that some games would launch in a small square inside of a black square on my monitor using the 1.04 drivers.I tried with dx7 and then updated to dx8 and both had trouble. I then isolated the faulty drivers as being the 1.04 3dfxOGL.dll and glide3x.dll.I personally had trouble with the oni demo and xplane.To solve this problem I installed the 1.04 drivers then ran the voodoo frequency selector(http://www.tdfc.de/english/products/index_soft.htm)for 1.04 drivers.I then extracted the 3dfxOGL.dll and glide3x.dll drivers from the 1.02 driver kit and placed them in my WINNT/System32/ directory. Voila, no problem.If anyone knows how to make the 1.04 drivers work correctly let me know.For now this is all i could do. Just thought i would share this information with all my fellow voodoo 3 owners who have been shagged by 3dfx and their poor management.I must say the driver team at 3dfx was great and there were always new drivers to download even if they sucked

[Toby 0]

You don't have to put the older files in \winnt\system32, just put them in the game-directory for any game that has that problem.

 

Thanx goes to SHS for the tip

(Never got the chance to reply before that topic got to far down the list )

 

 

// Toby

[oldspice 0]

thanks for the tip..i was going to say that my quake 2 runs much better with the 1.04 drivers,but runs crappy with the 1.02 so this will solve my problems,i'll just put 3dfxOGL.dll and glide3x.dll in my xplane directory.

I wonder if the drivers have to be with the executable game file or just the root directory of the game? I'll figure it out. Thanks!