Chaos Legion - Some glitches in menu, ingame ok. Fast.

Guilty Gear XX #Reload - Flawless, very fast, looks nice w/4xFSAA on V5 6K, A little slow w/8x on 6K and 4x on 5500 (but it's only 900Mhz celeron

Red Faction 2 - flawless, a bit slow (this game sucks, RF1 waaaay better)
Star Wars: Jedi Academy - flawless w/ MesaFX
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. One very minor bug, very fast.
Neverwinter Nights - better to run Windows version on Linux w/ Cedega (WineX) - working movies

Tried to run Worms3D w/ MesaFX.  And it's extremely sloooooooooooooooooowwww ! Looks like full software rendering.  Doom3 runs waaaaaaay faster, at least not 0.3 fps like Worms...

Test your card on another machine.
And... Maybe your PSU is not enough for V5 5500 ? Some cheap PSUs rated
as 235 or 250W but real max output is 110-160W  

Quoteprobably the capacitors are going bad internally somewhere

It's almost impossible - ñapacitors on STB cards are very good.
But if PSU  is ok and you can see artifacts right at bootup (bios screens
or there's artifacts in any text mode - then it can be damaged memory.  

MesaFX-6.2.0.1.exe ? hick... What ? Where ?

I've got V5 5500 w/ Toshiba memory and BIOS 1.06.
Is there any reason to upgrade BIOS to 1.18 (stability, speed, etc ) ?

Just found the solution and it was very easy - just set that string to "GTF"

Anyway, any info about manual setup can be useful

Oops... can't see my attachment.
Hope this will work...

I need to set correct timings for 1024x768@85Hz, but these (default) settings from registry:

1376,1072,1168,808,769,772,0,94500000,8500,8,23923
give me a bit jagged fonts and window borders.

I found correct settings with PowerStrip but i want to set them as default settings in registry (i don't want to load PowerStrip each time) but i dont know registry string "syntax"

Can somebody help me to convert timing values from attached screenshot to registry string ?

The best mobo for Voodoo5 5500-6000 is MSI K8T Master2
How about Dual Opteron system ?

QuoteOriginally posted by dborca

QuoteOriginally posted by Flash

Compatibility. For example: Babylon 5: IFH (this game looks like Homeplanet, AFAIK same engine) works (sometimes slooow but...) with original ICD but simply quits to desktop with MesaFX after loading screen.

Even with the 6.1.0.2? If it is a pixelformat issue, it should generate a MESA.LOG file in the game directory! But then again, might be something else...

It's something else - no mesa.log
And i can't find any useful info in game log.
---------------------------------core_log.txt-----------------------------------------

(sound init log skipped)

----------------------------
Getting device context...
----------------------------
Filling pixel format descriptor...
Pixel type: PFD_TYPE_RGBA
Color bits : 16
Depth bits : 32
stencil bits : 0
Layer type: PFD_MAIN_PLANE
Choosing pixel format...
Trying to create and enable the render context...
----------------------------
OpenGL system driver information:
Vendor : Brian Paul
Renderer : Mesa Glide v0.61 Voodoo5 6000 (tm)
Version : 1.2 Mesa 6.1
Hardware acceleration detected!
OpenGL extensions supported by current driver:
GL_ARB_multitexture
GL_ARB_point_parameters
GL_ARB_texture_env_add
GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix
GL_ARB_window_pos
GL_EXT_abgr
GL_EXT_bgra
GL_EXT_blend_func_separate
GL_EXT_blend_subtract
GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint
GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array
GL_EXT_copy_texture
GL_EXT_draw_range_elements
GL_EXT_packed_pixels
GL_EXT_paletted_texture
GL_EXT_point_parameters
GL_EXT_polygon_offset
GL_EXT_rescale_normal
GL_EXT_secondary_color
GL_EXT_separate_specular_color
GL_EXT_shared_texture_palette
GL_EXT_subtexture
GL_EXT_texture
GL_EXT_texture3D
GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp
GL_EXT_texture_env_add
GL_EXT_texture_env_combine
GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias
GL_EXT_texture_object
GL_EXT_vertex_array
GL_APPLE_packed_pixels
GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip
GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat
GL_INGR_blend_func_separate
GL_MESA_window_pos
GL_NV_light_max_exponent
GL_NV_texgen_reflection
GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp
GL_SGIS_texture_lod
WGL_3DFX_gamma_control
WGL_EXT_swap_control
WGL_EXT_extensions_string
WGL_ARB_extensions_string
----------------------------
Using some OpenGL extensions...
Using OpenGL extension : GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array
Using OpenGL extension : GL_ARB_multitexture
Max texture units supported : 2
Using OpenGL extension : WGL_3DFX_gamma_control
Using OpenGL extension : GL_EXT_bgra
Using OpenGL extension : WGL_EXT_swap_control
Using OpenGL extension : GL_EXT_paletted_texture
Using OpenGL extension : GL_EXT_texture_env_add
Using OpenGL extension : GL_NV_texgen_reflection
Using OpenGL extension : GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint
Using OpenGL extension : GL_EXT_point_parameters
Using OpenGL extension : GL_ARB_transpose_matrix
Using OpenGL extension : GL_EXT_texture_env_combine
Using OpenGL extension : GL_EXT_blend_subtract
Max texture size supported : 1024
Unable to load texture : d_d1.sla - file not found!
Possible cause : file has 'read-only' attribute
----------------------------
System startup complete!
----------------------------
Loading interface settings... (interface.ini)
Loading interface sounds...
Error: file not found:../DATA/user.cfg
----------------------------
Executing config file:SCRIPTS/run.cfg
----------------------------
Executing config file:campaigns/mainloop.ini
----------------------------
Executing config file:campaigns/intro.ini
Error: file not found:../DATA/../DATA/SCRIPTS/single.ini

----------------------
Loading mission : ifh_demo_intro.MAP
File not found ()
Destroy Narn expedition
Unable to load texture : beam_mid.pcx - file not found!
Possible cause : file has 'read-only' attribute
Loading jumppoint properties (jump.pnt)
Loading AI Personas (Personas.ai)
Loading AI profiles (ai.ai)
Loading background : vathan_4_11
Unable to load texture : flare03.tga - file not found!
Possible cause : file has 'read-only' attribute
Unable to load texture : ifh_logo_in.tga - file not found!
Possible cause : file has 'read-only' attribute
Error! Unknown allegiance type or none defined :
Error! Unknown allegiance type or none defined :
Error! Unknown allegiance type or none defined :
Error! Unknown allegiance type or none defined :
moving 6067600 bytes of geom data to fast memory...
failed to move geom data to fast memory
Adding dialog: ingame_skip.dlg
Aaaaaarrrgggh! Fatal exception in waCoreRun!
Unknown command or variable:recordstop
Stopping all sounds...
Deleting world...
Clearing world...
clearing data in fast memory....
Vertex data disposed....
Clearing bitmaps...
Aaaaaarrrgggh! Fatal exception in wrKillBitmaps!
Unknown command or variable:recordstop
Stopping all sounds...
Deleting world...
Aaaaaarrrgggh! Fatal exception in CWorld::mfKillWorld!
Unknown command or variable:recordstop
Stopping all sounds...
Deleting world...
--------------------------------------------------------
Same with Voodoo 5 5500...

QuoteOriginally posted by InSomNiaN

Latest one to add to the list is... (drum roll)

Crazy Taxi 3 (although runs slooooowww, no glitches or errors)

Wwwwait a second... no glitches ? How ? No missing textures ? I can't believe it

QuoteOriginally posted by dborca

QuoteOriginally posted by milen

The improvments are very good but....
Why 3dfx ogl still is better than mesafx for voodoo3?

Performance-wise or compatibility-wise?

Compatibility. For example: Babylon 5: IFH (this game looks like Homeplanet, AFAIK same engine) works (sometimes slooow but...) with original ICD but simply quits to desktop with MesaFX after loading screen.



BTW whats wrong with V5 SLI and MesaFX - if FSAA set to "Fastest performance" (no FSAA) i can see stripes on the screen (for example in UT2003) but when FSAA is set to 2x, 4x, 8x (v5 6K only) - no stripes, everything is ok.

Sonic Adventure DX - 1152x864x32 4xFSAA - very fast

Don't copy this glide3x to %windir%\system, it's definitely not a good idea.
Why ? It's early beta and it's buggy like hell, for example try to run Tribes 2 with MesaFX and this DLL - lots of gfx bugs... Same UT2K3 - sky on DM-Antalus is broken, various errors with Glide64, texture bugs in Unreal. So, copy this dll to game directory instead, if all works fine - use it as this dll is faster than 30303, bugs - try to delete this glide3x.dll
and use older 30303 until bugs in 40404 will  be fixed

And how about R9000 PCI or R9200 128Mb PCI ? Not too expensive and works ok (enough for UT2003 @1024x768x32 all max)