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Title: Half-Life 2 (Voodoo3)
Post by: ps47 on 14 April 2005, 23:44:43

..using the latest SFFT.you will have to run in a window and set your desktop to 16bit if you want to launch the game:

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runs fast enough (athlon xp 3000 CPU),but looks bad,mainly because most of the textures are larger than 256*256.It would look WAY better with sw rescalling,but I dont think someone is going to do sw rescaling for D3D..unless SFFT wants to make another miracle and copy the sw rescalling from mesafx somehow[8D]

Title: Half-Life 2 (Voodoo3)
Post by: ahavasi on 16 April 2005, 13:58:56

LoL :)

Title: Half-Life 2 (Voodoo3)
Post by: ahavasi on 16 April 2005, 19:42:13

Can I run HL2 whit voodoo 5 5500??? (offical drivers, whit mesa FX)??

Title: Half-Life 2 (Voodoo3)
Post by: ggab on 16 April 2005, 20:34:49

@ahavasi Yes, you can :)

with SSFT alpha 27 : https://www.3dfxzone.it/news/reader.php?objid=861 (Voodoo4/5 - 2.06Mb)

Title: Half-Life 2 (Voodoo3)
Post by: ps47 on 16 April 2005, 21:42:06

yes you can,but you will be unable to change the advanced video settings ingame.I have created an autoexec file that will run the game with LOW settings,it should improve the FPS a bit.get it here (http://www.inc_exe.szm.sk/autoexec.cfg),put it to your CFG folder (under steam\blahblah\HL2).this will launch the game with all settings at "LOW"..

Title: Half-Life 2 (Voodoo3)
Post by: ps47 on 16 April 2005, 23:02:29

..actually,it looks like that ugliness is caused by texture compression.HL2 uses 256*256 textures for dx6 cards (and for LOW detail as well).

Title: Half-Life 2 (Voodoo3)
Post by: agrelaphon on 17 April 2005, 19:10:18

It looks like texture compression to me also.[xx(]
..hey, those guys made compressed textures for dx6 cards?[B)]

Title: Half-Life 2 (Voodoo3)
Post by: ps47 on 17 April 2005, 21:16:09

nope.looks like it got activated by accident.I need to look into it again,but I dont have time right now..

Title: Half-Life 2 (Voodoo3)
Post by: ps47 on 03 June 2005, 21:29:47

..ok,it seems like HL2 is using some texture format not supported by voodoo3.that means it it cannot be fixed..too bad.

Title: Half-Life 2 (Voodoo3)
Post by: r21vo on 04 June 2005, 19:10:57

maybe a patch could fix that? (decompress texture files for game)

Title: Half-Life 2 (Voodoo3)
Post by: ps47 on 04 June 2005, 19:48:39

nope.its not texture compression thats causing the problem (texture compression can be disabled easily).when you check the console,it says: failed to create dx8 texture (or something similar,I dont have it installed anymore),apparently HL2 requires some texture format (24bit is my bet) that is not supported by the voodoo3..

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