3DFX Voodoo 3 DirectX 8 Drivers... When?
Anthony Graham
all related groups to the question.
when are 3dfx going to release dx8 compatible voodoo 3 drivers?
This puts a complete halt on development for me until they produce drivers!
Anybody know? rougthly?
- Anthony
Dion
"Anthony Graham" <A.M.Graham*NOSPAMFORME*@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> when are 3dfx going to release dx8 compatible voodoo 3 drivers?
> This puts a complete halt on development for me until they produce
drivers!
Why does this hamper you? I have a voodoo3 3000 and I'm developing for DX8
with no problems.
-Dion
Valery Carpentier
> > This puts a complete halt on development for me until they produce
> drivers!
>
> Why does this hamper you? I have a voodoo3 3000 and I'm developing for
DX8
> with no problems.
And I wouldn't hold my breath too much anyway, sadly the Voodoo3 is getting
reasonably old now... And there's actually no real point in having DX8
drivers as the new capabilities are not supported by the V3 anyway
valery Carpentier
Anthony Graham
- Anthony
"Dion" <dpi...@garfield.cs.mun.ca> wrote in message
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Anthony Graham
these capabilaties in DX 7, so they should implement it on the DX 8 Drivers,
I think they will produce DX 8 Drivers as 3dfx are good like that (or so
I've heard). On their site they say that there are compliant cards (all the
DX 8 features in hardware) and cards with compatible drivers (provide all
the features, but some by emulation). I think they'll make compatible
Drivers for the Voodoo 3.
- Anthony
"Valery Carpentier" <val...@confounding-factor.com> wrote in message
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Talkie Toaster
your breath waiting for them.. it took them 6 months to get drivers out for
win2k, and they only support banshee and voodoo 3/4/5, not voodoo 2.. the
banshee ones never came out of beta...
Dx7 drivers for the first 6 months of release had lots of problems as well
(can you say hard machine lock up while using notepad!), so be wary of using
the first version of any dx8 driver that they release.
3dfx is going downhill really.. they have even decided to stop making video
cards and concentrate on making chips only to sell to other manufacturers.
TT
"Anthony Graham" <A.M.Graham*NOSPAMFORME*@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> yeah, but the cube map demo shouldn't revert to REF software driver, It
had
> these capabilaties in DX 7, so they should implement it on the DX 8
Drivers,
> I think they will produce DX 8 Drivers as 3dfx are good like that (or so
> I've heard). On their site they say that there are compliant cards (all
the
> DX 8 features in hardware) and cards with compatible drivers (provide all
> the features, but some by emulation). I think they'll make compatible
> Drivers for the Voodoo 3.
>
> - Anthony
>
> "Valery Carpentier" <val...@confounding-factor.com> wrote in message
> news:974270834.26948.0...@news.demon.co.uk...
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Valery Carpentier
had
> these capabilaties in DX 7, so they should implement it on the DX 8
Drivers,
> I think they will produce DX 8 Drivers as 3dfx are good like that (or so
> I've heard). On their site they say that there are compliant cards (all
the
> DX 8 features in hardware) and cards with compatible drivers (provide all
> the features, but some by emulation). I think they'll make compatible
> Drivers for the Voodoo 3.
>
> - Anthony
First time I've heard of a Voodoo3 doing cube map... AFAIK, only the NVidia
GF1 and GF2 and the ATI Radeon have support for D3D Cube map. You must be
mistaken with spherical map (that the V3 does very well because it's done by
the D3D runtime and not the driver :)
As regarding the quotes on their sites, it's more likely to be PR parp than
anything else. Sure, their next gen card will be DX8 compliant... and sure
they can support "compatible" drivers, for the vertex shaders for example,
as once again it is handled by the D3D runtime in their case (no HW TnL).
And it's the firt time that I hear someone saying that 3dfx are actually
good at producing DX drivers... Naaa, that must be a joe ;-)
valery Carpentier
David Frey
chips. They will only license core technology to other manufacturers.
"Anthony Graham" <A.M.Graham*NOSPAMFORME*@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Talkie Toaster" <uni...@optushome.com.au> wrote in message
> news:7GDQ5.4060$lI2....@news1.rochd1.qld.optushome.com.au...
> > They probably will make compatable dx8 drivers at some point, but don't
> hold
> > your breath waiting for them.. it took them 6 months to get drivers out
> for
> > win2k, and they only support banshee and voodoo 3/4/5, not voodoo 2..
the
> > banshee ones never came out of beta...
> > Dx7 drivers for the first 6 months of release had lots of problems as
well
> > (can you say hard machine lock up while using notepad!), so be wary of
> using
> > the first version of any dx8 driver that they release.
> > 3dfx is going downhill really.. they have even decided to stop making
> video
> > cards and concentrate on making chips only to sell to other
manufacturers.
>
> I thought it was the other way around... they used to make chips and now
> they make cards,
> monster 3d cards were voodoo 2, and voodoo 3/4/5 is their own since they
> teamed
> with STB.
>
> - Anthony
>
>
> >
> > TT
> >
> > "Anthony Graham" <A.M.Graham*NOSPAMFORME*@btinternet.com> wrote in
message
> > news:8uukif$hkq$1...@uranium.btinternet.com...
> > > yeah, but the cube map demo shouldn't revert to REF software driver,
It
> > had
> > > these capabilaties in DX 7, so they should implement it on the DX 8
> > Drivers,
> > > I think they will produce DX 8 Drivers as 3dfx are good like that (or
so
> > > I've heard). On their site they say that there are compliant cards
(all
> > the
> > > DX 8 features in hardware) and cards with compatible drivers (provide
> all
> > > the features, but some by emulation). I think they'll make compatible
> > > Drivers for the Voodoo 3.
> > >
> > > - Anthony
> > >
> > > "Valery Carpentier" <val...@confounding-factor.com> wrote in message
> > > news:974270834.26948.0...@news.demon.co.uk...
Dion
or Dx8. I don't think it's supposed to have these caps anyway.
-Dion
Anthony Graham
"Talkie Toaster" <uni...@optushome.com.au> wrote in message
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> They probably will make compatable dx8 drivers at some point, but don't
hold
> your breath waiting for them.. it took them 6 months to get drivers out
for
> win2k, and they only support banshee and voodoo 3/4/5, not voodoo 2.. the
> banshee ones never came out of beta...
> Dx7 drivers for the first 6 months of release had lots of problems as well
> (can you say hard machine lock up while using notepad!), so be wary of
using
> the first version of any dx8 driver that they release.
> 3dfx is going downhill really.. they have even decided to stop making
video
> cards and concentrate on making chips only to sell to other manufacturers.
I thought it was the other way around... they used to make chips and now
they make cards,
monster 3d cards were voodoo 2, and voodoo 3/4/5 is their own since they
teamed
with STB.
- Anthony
>
> TT
>
> "Anthony Graham" <A.M.Graham*NOSPAMFORME*@btinternet.com> wrote in message
> news:8uukif$hkq$1...@uranium.btinternet.com...
> > yeah, but the cube map demo shouldn't revert to REF software driver, It
> had
> > these capabilaties in DX 7, so they should implement it on the DX 8
> Drivers,
> > I think they will produce DX 8 Drivers as 3dfx are good like that (or so
> > I've heard). On their site they say that there are compliant cards (all
> the
> > DX 8 features in hardware) and cards with compatible drivers (provide
all
> > the features, but some by emulation). I think they'll make compatible
> > Drivers for the Voodoo 3.
> >
> > - Anthony
> >
> > "Valery Carpentier" <val...@confounding-factor.com> wrote in message
> > news:974270834.26948.0...@news.demon.co.uk...
Anthony Graham
NVidia
> GF1 and GF2 and the ATI Radeon have support for D3D Cube map. You must be
> mistaken with spherical map (that the V3 does very well because it's done
by
> the D3D runtime and not the driver :)
I did run, and didn't seem to be _completely_ in software, although some
must be if it doesn't support this in hardware, and the frame rate was
reassonable which makes me think some h/w accelleration was being used.
- Anthony
Anthony Graham
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Mike Rodens
can you german,too
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NJW
that only V4+V5 drivers have been updated.
Anthony Graham
of difference (things started to work).
- Anthony
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Padrefla
W98SE. I can hear the sound but can't see anything. I have the latest
updated drivers from Compaq's site. What gives? Stevenews:8v8riq$47$1...@uranium.btinternet.com...
Markku Åkerfelt
fine with dx80.
read more this:
(message board)
http://www.techextreme.com/3dXtreme/
T:Markku Åkerfelt
FINLAND
Hauke Duden
> chips. They will only license core technology to other manufacturers.
No, they only decided to outsource card manufacturing. They'll simply get
some other company to produce their card's for them but these will still be
3DFX cards.
I also read an interview with some 3DFX guy who stated that they will only
license their technology (meaning Voodoo 3, not 4/5) to asia, not to europe
or the US. Don't they ever learn anything....
Hauke
Eric Whetstone
NVIDIA chip, OH WAIT I already have one, a 64MB GEFORCE....ohhhh bliss.
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- Anthony
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Did you get these drivers?
Downloadsite is down for days... great 3dfx support.
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> 3dfx have made new DX 8 drivers for the voodoo 3!
>
> - Anthony
>
>
> "Eric Whetstone" <EWHET...@mn.rr.com> wrote in message
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Anthony Graham
> Did you get these drivers?
yes, on the 29th.
> Downloadsite is down for days... great 3dfx support.
It's not down, just very slow.. just been on it, perhaps people who
installed DX8 realised they needed the drivers and that's stressing the
server out (people seem to go to 3dfx.com rather than 3dfxgamers.com where
the drivers are located). 3dfxgamers.com is working at a good-ish speed. go
straight there. And you can't blame them for server load,
or having customers..... ;-)
- Anthony
PS: I started a download okay, but it never finished cos i stopped it (I've
already got the drivers)
It all seems fine.
> "Anthony Graham" <A.M.Graham*NOSPAMFORME*@btinternet.com> schrieb im
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> > 3dfx have made new DX 8 drivers for the voodoo 3!
> >
> > - Anthony
> >
> >
> > "Eric Whetstone" <EWHET...@mn.rr.com> wrote in message
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Jason Kozak
>Really?
>Did you get these drivers?
>Downloadsite is down for days... great 3dfx support.
You can find them here:
http://www.3dfxgamers.com/view.asp?IOID=2428
Jason Kozak
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> Really?
> Did you get these drivers?
> Downloadsite is down for days... great 3dfx support.
>
>
> "Anthony Graham" <A.M.Graham*NOSPAMFORME*@btinternet.com> schrieb im
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> > 3dfx have made new DX 8 drivers for the voodoo 3!
> >
> > - Anthony
> >
> >
> > "Eric Whetstone" <EWHET...@mn.rr.com> wrote in message
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test07
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> I agree.
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Steve Ranck
Steve
"Anthony Graham" <A.M.Graham*NOSPAMFORME*@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> they've now made some good drivers for DX8
>
>
>
> "test07" <tes...@whiz.com.hk> wrote in message
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> > I agree.
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Anthony Graham
although nvida probably did to, but I never tried nvida drivers... don't
have a nvida card.
- Anthony
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