you might beable to run GTA:VC on V2 in windows 98. adding mesafx to the gtavc dir and make a shortcut with "gtavc.exe -opengl" i dont know if it will work since i dont have GTA:VC, but i have ran it in opengl on a friends GF:FX.
Wow I never knew that VC had a opengl engine, I will try right away.
Can somebody tell me how to run freedom fighters with a V2? If it works with V2 I will post some pics. If Gta:VC has opengl GTA3 has opengl too (same engine). Letts hope it works.
I have tried GTA3 with the Voodoo2 its kinda slow now because of the large textures, if I am able to decrease the size I will post some pics with framerate. It works with XP(w2K) and win98se.
Here it is:
(http://img64.exs.cx/img64/7919/v2gta38rz.jpg)
With these settings it is playable
more details on the settings please ;)
Well, I think there should be a faq about games, that need work around to be playable on 3dfx hardware. And I mean all voodoo's!!!!!!!!!! Perhaps something extra for 3dfxzone.it/falconfly I dunno it's just an idea. Ok I will post the specs later. I'm still not satisfied with the current state in which the game runs.
QuoteOriginally posted by perer
Well, I think there should be a faq about games, that need work around to be playable on 3dfx hardware. And I mean all voodoo's!!!!!!!!!!
hmm, good idea... (http://www.voodoofiles.net/vb/3dfxhelppage/#gameguidetoc)
[overhaul/update to game guide coming soon, thanx to ps47...]
Do you think that a V3 would be capable of running it on OpenGl mode with the MesaFx6.2?
it might, just depends on whether it wants too [:p]
Wll doing what you said didnt make the game run on OpenGl, as the 3dfx logo screen didnt show up on the start as it uses when im using a mesaFx opengl to play a Opengl Game.... any help??? what more should i change?
try updating it to the newest version
What should i update???? the game or the drivers??? im already using Mesa 6.2 and Sfft 21 alpha...
the game, update the game
I used a cracked version of the game, cause the music cd gets kinda hot. Anyway the version of the game was 1.0. Ofcourse you can play the game with the V3 no problem, or there must be a strange thing wrong somewhere. Just use mesaFX and make a shortcut of GTA3.exe with the commandline ' -opengl.' And then the game will run although I use some other tweak programs to make it run resionable on my V2. I think the V3 would be better at running the game because of the texture memory and the clockspeed. Can someone with a V3 3500 test it?
how do you really know that it is running on OpenGl???
..if hes running the game on a voodoo2 card under xp,the game must run under opengl,as voodoo2 has no d3d under xp..
Well i was triyng GTA:VC, but now im gonna try the original one under Xp, thanks everybody for giviming some hope on this one...
And under directx it would never run very stable. A voodoo2 is a directx 5.0 card !!!!
Well i here are my spec i hope u can help me out on this one
Sempron 2.2+
MB M825G
256Mb DDR 333
Voodoo 3 3000 PCI
Driver : SFFT 21
MesaFx: 6.2
Game : GTA 3
I just instaled the game, soh i copied the glide3x.dll from the mesa directory into my Winxp system32 directory, then i copied the opengl32.dll from mesa and put on the same directory as the exe from GTA 3, send it to the desktop as a link, and add the -opengl after the line, soh it looks like this "F:\Jogos\Pc's\GTA\GTA3\GTA3FIX\gta3.exe -opengl" So please what is that im making wrong?
wow...
this gives me hope when GTA:San Andreas comes out..i will try it on my V3 machine first~~
QuoteOriginally posted by Dautonico
Wll doing what you said didnt make the game run on OpenGl, as the 3dfx logo screen didnt show up on the start as it uses when im using a mesaFx opengl to play a Opengl Game.... any help??? what more should i change?
some self-experience:
I've tried "Counter Strike: Condition Zero", i've used MESAFX ,no 3DFX logo on screen, but on the renderor option, it says it's using OpenGL..
so showing the 3DFX logo or not is not the key different between OGL and D3D as far as i can tell
so maybe you are already running GTA in OpenGL mode..
Well... did you try it on your V3??? because i just cant get it to wokr.... daam i was so happy with this chance...
I don't think the V3 will have enough power to play San Andreas. I think a Voodoo5 will nearly be able to do the trick. I suppose that this time Rockstar won't make a cheap port from the PS2.
Only a v5 will be capable of playing San Andreas.. as it is alreadywith the Need Underground... in here no way of working with GTa3...
maybe, offtopic, but
now, with this -opengl command, is it possible to play *without the frezze problem* Gta3 and/or GtaVC in a banshee and a v3?
PS: @Dautonico: with a v4 NFSU is playable too (640*480 and defaults details) :)
its not using d3d so, in theory, it shouldnt crash.
Well I don't now about the banshee, I am running with a V2 SLI and it barely runs, I don't think a Banshee can run it at a decent speed. The V3 would be able to run it anytime.
@ggab
Im trying to run it on my voodoo 3 with the tips from Perer, but it just isint running, it crashes the same way it did with the normal operation, but im a very new user and im not so used to handle this things about config and drivers, if you could try it too maybe we could get some were
@Dautonico:
I'll add you into my MSN and then I help you trying to get it run with the V3.
Ok im waiting for you help thank you very much
Sorry I thought you would add me, I tried yout adres on 3dfxzone but it didn't work.
To add me to MSn you have to use the folowing email dautonico@ig.com.br , gime your email and i will add you too
WEll now I have yours it will be no problem.
It dont work,(
i have i810 and creative voodoo2 12mb, i copied opengl32.dll(mesa) to gta dir, and made shortcup "gta.exe -opengl", but it starts i810 in D3D
It would have been useless anyway, the V2 SLI is too slow in D3D.
i try warcraft III.exe -opengl, and it works
Heh i've a GTA3 problem with my banshee, refuses to run, complains I need 12mb of vid mem
BUT I HAVE 16 :(
p2 233, 192mb ram, gta3 1.1, Evolution banshee drivers (doesn't say any ver), Win2kpro.
Reduce the size of your desktop, I have seen this problem with a 16 Meg V3 with GTA3, it loads in a 640 * 480 pixel destop resolution.
SFFT
Thanks alot! (I never thought i'd be thanking a furry)
now it just freezes completely after a moment, but it's a step forward. and no, GTA3 never had an opengl renderer at all, so all this -opengl is false.
man, there needs to be a faq wiki with these things, google was quite crap for me in solving this issue
i have the same problem, but lowering the creen resolution not help....do you have another idea???
(i have v2 sli (2x8mb ram), s3 virge 4mb ram, athlon xp 1600+, gigabyte ga-7vrx, 256ddr333...)
Imho, when i tried GTA3 VC (with a V3), it needeed really 16 mo to start (the only solution was to low the desktop to 640*480) then with a Voodoo 3 (and under Win9x), the game ran only with an Intel Cpu (and the first driver for DirX 6 - 1.03 -)
maybe the problrm is this: I can't add -opengl to shortcut, I always get message "........./gta3.exe -opengl" doesn't exist....why i get that message....
My V3 allways froze GTA3 after 10 sec, with or without the "...-opengl" thing, nomatter what[xx(]
LOL its bullsh*t ~~ There is no such thing as OpenGL in Vice City...
Quotemaybe the problrm is this: I can't add -opengl to shortcut, I always get message "........./gta3.exe -opengl" doesn't exist....why i get that message....
man... if you have a shortcut you dont add the parameter inside " " you have to add them after " "
voodoo3 3k, win98se, P3-700, 512mb here.. (and amigamerlin and mesa and blah blah..)
GTA3 freezes, GTA-VC tells i need 32mb of memory.. i have tryed creating a bat file with that -opengl command, but nothing changes..
How did you get GTA3 to run? I have STB Voodoo 2 SLI with fastvoodoo drivers. Added MesaFX opengl32.dll to gta3 folder and added a .bat file with "gta3.exe -opengl" and still I get 12mb error.
Dxdiag shows 16 mb on graphics 2. all the other games too.
It's GTA3 1.0, do I need to get an updated version of gta to run opengl?