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Title: Half-Life 2 on Voodoo cards
Post by: Glide on 20 November 2004, 20:44:59

Half-Life 2, the latest Sierra Entertainment masterpeace, runs fine on 3dfx Voodoo5 cards with Amigamerlin 3.1 R1 driver kit. Omega_supreme sent Amigamerlin some game pictures. Just one - frame real resolution is 1920x1200 - follows:

(https://www.forumzone.it/public/uploaded/amigamerlin/hl2_3dfx_1920x1200.jpg)

View this image at FULL SIZE (https://www.forumzone.it/public/uploaded/amigamerlin/hl2_3dfx_1920x1200_full.jpg).

Other screenshots can be viewed from original topic (http://www.forumzone.it/link.asp?TOPIC_ID=13905)at forumzone.it (http://www.forumzone.it/).

Bye bye

Title: Half-Life 2 on Voodoo cards
Post by: secretfj on 21 November 2004, 02:36:47

It runs at Dx Level 9/8/7/6?
coz differnt Dx Level will make the on-screen detail different

Title: Half-Life 2 on Voodoo cards
Post by: omega_supreme on 21 November 2004, 12:30:08

HL2 uses its own dx6 path ;)

Title: Half-Life 2 on Voodoo cards
Post by: luigiuk23 on 25 November 2004, 22:16:00

Hi,

I see from the screenshot you got the 3dfx Voodoo5 card working on HL2, using Amigamerlin 3.1 R1 driver kit. Did you use the MesaFX patch, if so can you tell me how to install it? If you didnt can you help me anyway!

Thanks

Anthony

Title: Half-Life 2 on Voodoo cards
Post by: Nightbird on 25 November 2004, 22:24:44

Well, HL2 runs under Dx and can't run unluckily with MesaFx since this game doesn't support OpenGl (unluckily again).

Title: Half-Life 2 on Voodoo cards
Post by: secretfj on 26 November 2004, 14:22:37

if HL2 uses OpenGL, maybe V2 can run it (just like Doom3)

Title: Half-Life 2 on Voodoo cards
Post by: ps47 on 26 November 2004, 15:37:36

..many games have an unsupported opengl renderer that can be activated by ini editing or console commands,but I dont think this is the case.it looks like the source engine doesnt have an ogl renderer,I have asked if CS Source has something like that on the official forum,the reply was no,and it has started a nice flamewar :D

Title: Half-Life 2 on Voodoo cards
Post by: Nightbird on 26 November 2004, 20:20:32

Quotemany games have an unsupported opengl renderer

Indeed but sometimes this renderer is not "fantastic".

Title: Half-Life 2 on Voodoo cards
Post by: ps47 on 26 November 2004, 20:23:50

..yes,but "not fantastic" graphics is usually better than "none at all" ;)

Title: Half-Life 2 on Voodoo cards
Post by: Nightbird on 26 November 2004, 20:25:48

Right ! ;)

Title: Half-Life 2 on Voodoo cards
Post by: luigiuk23 on 26 November 2004, 21:40:18

Ok thanks for the help!! So HL2 doesnt support MesaFX.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to tweak HL2.

Here are my specs.

AMD Athlon 1.4 Mhz
758 RAM
Voodoo 5
Windows XP

Thanks

Title: Half-Life 2 on Voodoo cards
Post by: SuperFurryFurryThing on 27 November 2004, 01:39:09

Try running Set3tile.exe and then rebooting if it still runs it might go a bit faster, if it stops working run set4tile.exe and reboot again it should be back to being ok. Lower resolutions will probably also be faster.

SFFT

Title: Half-Life 2 on Voodoo cards
Post by: ps47 on 28 November 2004, 14:36:02

http://www.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=1656574#post1656574
:D

Title: Half-Life 2 on Voodoo cards
Post by: Nightbird on 28 November 2004, 14:55:32

So it was an opengl renderer but Valve would have removed it "to do MS a favor".

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