3dfx cards in windows 98

[Jay D. Williams III]

I'm running a Diamond Monster (Voodoo 1-type) card on a P 200 MMX. When I
installed windows 98, I did a clean install, and win 98 detected my card as
a Voodoo card.

So far so good. Under properties, Win 98 says no drivers installed, nor
needed.

Then I noticed I couldn't get 3dfx in Hornet Korea, so I installed the Glide
driver included with the game and updates.

Now it seems that many of my other 3d games just aren't giving me quite teh
performance boost I'm used to.

Should I leave it as is, or should I install the drivers from the Monster 3d
CD-ROM, or has anyone heard of windows 98 specific drivers being on the way?

Thanks
jaywi...@pen.net

[Andrew A. Shokhanov]

Greetings, Jay!

The standart driver in Windows 98 IMHO provides ONLY Direct3D support! So
install drivers from CD-ROM is a good idea - I did it and I have no problems
with it! But maybe you want to download the latest drivers from diamond
site...

Best regards, Andrew A. Shokhanov
Webmaster of http://www.riondo.ru, E-mail: webm...@riondo.ru
Riondo IT Division

Jay D. Williams III пишет в сообщении...

[PB547]

I would let windows install its own drivers, then install the 1.10 Diamond
drivers (get from Diamond web/ftp site). Just hit the 'update driver' button
and direct Win98 to the dir. where you unzipped the drivers.

[Peter Coleman]

Win98 only detects the voodoo chipset, but it has drivers for the Monster.
Just do a manaul update of the driver, select the option and voila!

Jay D. Williams III wrote in message <35bac...@newserve.gulftel.com>...

[Dale Hall]

In article <35bac...@newserve.gulftel.com>, Jay D. Williams III
<jaywi...@pen.net> writes

>I'm running a Diamond Monster (Voodoo 1-type) card on a P 200 MMX. When I
>installed windows 98, I did a clean install, and win 98 detected my card as
>a Voodoo card.
>
>So far so good. Under properties, Win 98 says no drivers installed, nor
>needed.
>
>Then I noticed I couldn't get 3dfx in Hornet Korea, so I installed the Glide
>driver included with the game and updates.
>
>Now it seems that many of my other 3d games just aren't giving me quite teh
>performance boost I'm used to.
>
>Should I leave it as is, or should I install the drivers from the Monster 3d
>CD-ROM, or has anyone heard of windows 98 specific drivers being on the way?
>

>Thanks
>jaywi...@pen.net
>
>
>
I have just upgraded to Win 98, i have not noticed any slow down with
3D games, either Direct X or Glide, the games i've tried include Quake2,
Unreal, Tomraider2, Jedi Knight, Incoming, Mysteries of the sith,
incubation and xwing vs tie using 3d patch. I have also tried several
demos including Conflict Freespace, Xcom Interceptor, World Cup 98 and
Final Fantasy VII. My card is an Orchid Righteous 3D. Originally i was
using Orchids Latest drivers dated January 98, but in order to get the
Final Fantasy demo to work i have had to change to 3dfx's reference
drivers, glide 2.43 and direct3d 2.15 .

--
Dale Hall

[Peter Coleman]

Have you tried the Win98 Orchid driver, dated May 11?

Dale Hall wrote in message <9NIxIAAH...@d-p-hall.demon.co.uk>...