I have tried vsync on and off, does nothing for the errors.

Benna, what drivers do you use for Raven Shield? Right now i'm only using the Amigamerlin 3.1 R11 drivers and 3DA. Do i have to use SFFT drivers? I thought Amigamerlin driver have SFFT in it?

I tried that, but it's already set to False. I still get strips of 3d planes covering the screen.

There's other problems too. The outline of the 3d buildings is repeating itself where the background should be. Oh yeah, and the weapons don't show. Just empty where the rifles should be. So i just see hands for both first person and other player models. I can move around, but hard to see where i'm going or where the enemies are.

I also see vsync in the ini, but when i turn it to false the game only show black screen. The background music is there and when i click around i can click the menu, but nothing is visible. I wonder if vsync have to be enabled in 3dfx Tools?

Hi, i'm testing out Raven Shield Demo on Voodoo 5500. I have seen a few people successfully running this game (with some texture problems). Do you mind sharing what 3DA settings you used? I'm having some problems with just 'emulate HW TnL' and 'voodoo flicker fix'. The vid card id's i have set to either ti4600 or radeon 8500. Same problems with textures and weird ribbon like errors.

The Ghost Recon demo made me look for similar games for the V5. I tried demos of R6 Rogue Spear: Black Thorn, and OFP Resistance. They look horrible compared to the Ghost Recon demo. I also tried Raven Shield demo, but no go without 3DA. Then i tried The Sum of All Fears demo, which seems to use the same engine as GR. So 3d graphics and gui are similar.

P3 1.0Ghz, 768MB, V5 5500, WinXP, Amiga Merlin driver, 3dfx tools.
2x AA, Edge AA enabled, every game gfx set to high except shadows are off (forgot to mention that on the GR demo shots). 800x600 24bit game setting, 32bit desktop.







Do these games look better on R9500 or FX5700 vid cards?

Just a few shots from the demo. First one is with every graphic option set to high and 2x AA. The others have a couple settings set to medium, with AA set to fastest. All are 1024x768 32bit on P3 1Ghz, 768MB, V5 AGP.







BTW, can the v5 play newer Tom Clancy games? I'm afraid this P3 machine don't have enough mem bandwith for software T&L.

No BSD or error messages, instant reboot.

I have figured it out though. On MPC (Media Player Classic, and other DirectShow players i assume), in the options dialog, playback-output needs to be set to 'system default' rather than 'overlay mixer'. I have done this with the Banshee in the past, but it's been such a long time since i change vid cards that i forget all about it.

I have successfully upgraded from Creative Banshee to V5 5500, but now having video playback problems. I have reinstalled Matroska pack, but right when video playback starts, the computer reboots.

Can anyone help?

Nevermind, i figured out the problem. Installing 3dfx tools now.

I re-cleaned several times using driver cleaner, then with regcleaner i removed the banshee evolution entry from the list.  But i'm still getting the same error for v5500 in device manager.

I'm having problems with an older Banshee Evolution driver that was already uninstalled, but windows seems to list it all the time under Add/Remove programs. Uninstalling it doesn't do anything. Under device manager, for v5500 i get this error:

Your computer's system firmware does not include enough information to properly configure and use this device.  To use this device, contact your computer manufacturer to obtain a firmware or BIOS update. (Code 35)

Click Troubleshoot to start the troubleshooter for this device.

I have tried Driver Cleaner and removing the 3dfxvs folder in registry.

What am i doing wrong?

Thankyou both for the great info.

Mikulaish, is ICD v1.0.0.0761 the latest one?

Is that better than WickedGL? SAGE?

Thanks.

Hello, i have a v5 on the way, what is the current best setup for v5 5500 for counter strike 1.6?

I have win xp pro. I used to play with banshee 16mb sgram, with evolution driver and mesafx. But i'm new to vsa-100, and confused as to what drivers and patches are the best for v5 5500.

Should i use amiga merlin 3.1 r1 with mesafx, or the 3.1 r11 with sfft, or what?

My hardware is p3 1100, with 512mb ram.