SFFT alpha drivers - V3/4/5 - Join to Testing

Started by Glide, 22 May 2004, 17:02:06

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FBS

No memory error, it just seems funny to run well all week. Then when I stressed to game with a long continuous operation, the PC died on me. It is not fun playing for two hours and when you are about to finish you loose everything.
 

FBS

#616
I want to add that I thought it may be a memory problem because it crashed when I changed views. The (KMODE EXCEPTION ERROR) is it not because the program is looking for a file that is no longer there?
 

Pulsus

@SFFT

i test the SFFT Alpha 27 and have more FPS in americas army (UT2k3 engine), good work again....

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 Pulsus
Athlon XP-M 2500+ @ 2312 - 1,65Vcore  -  Aircooled
Asus A7V133
Micron 512MB Pc133 SDRAM @ 3,55V
Voodoo 5 5500 64MB AGP
Sound Blaster Live Value
40GB Seagate 7200RPM
16x/48x/24x/48x LG Combo
Sansung Syncmaster 750s 17"
Seventeam 350W PS
Huge AVC 12cm fan

vykupitel

It would be very nice if SSFT will change the DramInit option to make these driver possible to run on Daytona cards. ;)
AthlonXP 1.86GHz@2.2GHz (barton), 1024MB PC400 RAM,MSI KT6-Delta LSR,
Voodoo5 6000 rev. 3700 A1 + Voodoo4 4200 AGP(Daytona) and many more...

chatocl

I had a very small fps decrease in some games vs alpha 26.

I had a V3 on WinXP
 

ggab

QuoteOriginally posted by chatocl

I had a very small fps decrease in some games vs alpha 26.

I had a V3 on WinXP
Hola amigo.
little mistake, u still haVE the card :D hehe

Did you do some benchmarks, or simple look at the screen (maybe a FPS counter..)? (spanish: lo notas a simple vista?)

Which game?
 

Voodoo5

@SFFT,

I reinstalled Halflife 2 on my 5500 system (Athlon 2400 & 512 mb ram)and tryed it again with the alpha 27, its a bit subjective, but I do not believe it showed any real improvement for the fps. To many situations in the game that the fps go into single digits, this does not make for enjoyable game play.

Realisticaly a voodoo 5500 just does'nt have enough memory and fillrate to play these new games.

I was able to get Rayman 3 working with 2xAA with the alpha 27 which would'nt seem to work with the alpha 24 [8D]
 

ps47

#622
@Voodoo5:
try that modified cfg file for HL2,scroll down here: http://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1129&whichpage=40
it should give you a FPS boost..

chatocl

QuoteOriginally posted by ggab

Hola amigo.
little mistake, u still haVE the card :D hehe

Did you do some benchmarks, or simple look at the screen (maybe a FPS counter..)? (spanish: lo notas a simple vista?)

Which game?
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Most of the games that I test remains the same or vary less than 1%.
I measure a 2% decrease in Unreal Tournament (d3d mode, demoplay worstcase, I run the test 3 times and pick up the fastest one)

2% can be random, that's why I wrote very small decrease.... I can test again on the weekend (take some time because I disable some services and startup programs to reduce the exogenous factors)

Saludos
Chatocl
 

benna

#624
hi,
i tried lock on modern air combat with SFFT alpha 27
the menu look perfect, only the mouse sometimes disappears
in the game the screen is black, the only thing displayed correctly is the hud
my PC:
AMD Athlon64 3200+ - ASUS K8V-Deluxe - 1GB DDR400 - 3DFX Voodoo 5 5500 PCI

3DAnalyze user guide http://www.3dfxzone.it/dir/articles/template.php?id=5

ahavasi

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

FBS

QuoteOriginally posted by FBS

Ok I found a problem. After playing my flight sim for two hours, I changed views many times but In changing the view I got a BSOD.
Stp 0x0000001E (0X00000005, 0XF2F3AE95, 0X00000000, 0X238C4044)
KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED address F2F3AE95 base at F2EF1000 date stamp 425cla12 3dfxvs.dll

Is this cause because there was a memory problem?

The second time I attempt a long flight with flight simulator I got another BSOD pointing to the 3dfxvs.dll.
 

benna

SFFT are only for win 2k/xp, try raziel evolution drivers
my PC:
AMD Athlon64 3200+ - ASUS K8V-Deluxe - 1GB DDR400 - 3DFX Voodoo 5 5500 PCI

3DAnalyze user guide http://www.3dfxzone.it/dir/articles/template.php?id=5

ps47

yeah,evolution for win9x rocks.I just hope Raziel will release a new version in the future..

SuperFurryFurryThing

FBS the next time you get a BSOD, can you note the details, the first one for the Alpah 27 wasn't usefull, but that doesn't mean the next one won't be.

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