World of Warcraft + VooDoo 5 5500

Started by ahavasi, 28 January 2006, 14:15:13

Previous topic - Next topic

ahavasi

hi all!

The game is fully playable, and it looks very impressive!!!
but the grass\road textures are in wrong place.. [xx(]



Image Insert:

85.37 KB


Image Insert:

100.11 KB


Image Insert:

67.45 KB


Image Insert:

74.54 KB


Image Insert:

87.86 KB


Image Insert:

88.62 KB


Image Insert:

70.98 KB


Image Insert:

80.62 KB
AMD Athlon64 3200+@4200+, MSI K8N Neo4-F, 1gb Supertalent 480mhz, VooDoo 5 5500 Mac@PC

Nightbird

Quotebut the grass\road textures are in wrong place..
Do you have a picture with the grass\road textures in the right place ? (with an other gfx card if needeed)
______________________________________________

In-ter-ac-tive :
The way video games were always meant to be played
______________________________________________

Welcome to 3dfxzone.it Community
_____________________________

ahavasi

Sapphire ATi 9800se @ 9800 16AF

Image Insert:

283.77 KB
AMD Athlon64 3200+@4200+, MSI K8N Neo4-F, 1gb Supertalent 480mhz, VooDoo 5 5500 Mac@PC

ahavasi

ahh sorry, I forgot the size... (1024x768) sorry
AMD Athlon64 3200+@4200+, MSI K8N Neo4-F, 1gb Supertalent 480mhz, VooDoo 5 5500 Mac@PC

in3d

#4
Hi,
ahavasi,
yes there are grass\road textures in wrong place but nothing
cretical:)  
I also use voodoo5 5500 with sfft alpha 33 driver (and 3dfxTools) Win XP,and in video option I use default values (800x600 24bit-16bit,refresh:60hz,vertical sync:enable)but I don't understand what is vertical sync and why you have disabled it[?]and I think 60hz is the max capacity of voodoo 5 5500 exept if you have overcloaced it.
You can specify what system configuration and drivers you use [?]
the only one problem that I have notice in World of Warcraft it's that sometimes it slowing down(I hava modify 3dfxTools fastest performance and I put it on single chip only for increase compatibility but I don't know if that worked)[:(]
I hope that I was not too long and excuse my bad english[:p]
Thenks for any aditional precisions;)
My system: GA-8SMML Motherboard, P4 1.7Ghz, 256MB SDRAM, Voodoo5 5500 AGP, Win XP Pro.

Voodoo5

@in3d,

If you want to get the maximum performance from your voodoo card, turn off V-sync in your 3dfx tools and/or games (if they give you the option) ;)

The 60hz your mentioning is the current refresh rate of your monitor, if your particular monitor supports higher frequency's (ex. - 75, 85, 100 etc.), please use them as 60hz would give just about anybody a serious headache after a short time of viewing.
 

ahavasi

Now I using Amigamerlin 3.1 R11.
AMD Athlon64 3200+@4200+, MSI K8N Neo4-F, 1gb Supertalent 480mhz, VooDoo 5 5500 Mac@PC

in3d

#7
Hi all,
For WoW game performances, I noticed that it Distinctly runs better with AM 3.1 r11 than sfft Alpha 33 driver .
And now I put another exemple of some "ground textures corruptions" that I noticed in the game with both AM 3.1r11 and sfft a33 drivers. In this picture you can see a kind of "squars" in ground :

Thenks.;)
My system: GA-8SMML Motherboard, P4 1.7Ghz, 256MB SDRAM, Voodoo5 5500 AGP, Win XP Pro.

bloodworm

I'm pretty sure that is just lack of memory, as my buddies laptop has a 32Meg ATI mobility7000 and does the same exact thing.  1GIG of system ram is a MINIMUM to keep "lag" away for WOW.  and NO it's NOT your connection, it IS the RAM size of your system that slows things down in the big cities..
Bloody Mess

ArchAngelCD

It probably is a memory problem. Remember, even though the Voodoo5 has 64MB RAM it's really only a 32MB card since the memory is split between the 2 VSA-100 chips.
____________________________

Asus P4P800 i865PE | Intel 3.2 GHz P4C | 2048 Mb Kingston PC3200 Dual Channel DDR SRAM | 160 Gb Western Digital SATA HD | NEC ND-3520 16X DVD-RW | WinXP Pro SP2 | ATI Radeon X850 Pro | 6-channel AD1985 audio CODEC | 3Com 3C940 Gigabit LAN | Diamond Monster 3D II 24Mb SLI

secretfj

is WoW a OpenGL game ?
if so, try MESA FX latest version~~
No way a 3DFX collector...just a 3DFX die Hard Player~~

let the VooDoo Roars!!

P4 Extreme Edition 3.4GHz
Asus P5AD2 Deluxe i925x
2GB DDR2 667 DDRRAM
Voodoo 5 5500PCI

cicagl

MesaFX 'gáz' dirver... wow is d3d game
 

BoomStYx

WoW is both a opengl game and Direct3d game, if you want to try running opengl, do this, go to your WoW directory, create a shortcut of WoW.exe, place it on your desktop, go to properties on the shortcut, and in the target after World of Warcraft\WoW.exe" put -opengl so it would look like "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe" -opengl

thats all. Now the game runs a bit slower in opengl since opengl in WoW isn't done quite well, but give it a shot. I don't have a 3dfx card anymore so I can't test this unfortunately. My guess is the messed up texture problem will be fixed but the games performance may drop to unplayable, but thats my prediction, so I may be wrong.
 

bloodworm

hmmmmmm. I just did some research on my budies laptop video (for upgrade purposes) and I found out that the ATI mobility 7500 is only a DX 7 card??????  the mobility 9000 is only a DX 8.1???? capable card?  maybe it really IS the DX incompatability and not the lack of video RAM.
Bloody Mess

in3d

Thanks BoomStYx for this information, I will try with MesaFX or Sage...
But I don't know really how to manipulate these drivers, where I can find somestep by step installation guide please ?

I hope WoW will work faster than with D3D mode ;)
Thanks.
My system: GA-8SMML Motherboard, P4 1.7Ghz, 256MB SDRAM, Voodoo5 5500 AGP, Win XP Pro.