Voodoo 5 5500 Issues

[SOB]

Heya Pyro ... a little while back you said you were working to get one of these puppies outta 3DFX to do testing with and possibly fix the terrain tearing, map jumpiness, and swimming gauges problem with the 5500s.  Any luck?


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For anyone who's interested... http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/Forum6/HTML/001103.html

[carl]

I run a v5 and have zero problems, using BETA driver from 3dfx.

[Kwan]

Carl  
Please tell us the driver file name and
where to get it...
Do you fly online with FSAA enabled...it doesn't seem to show up much offline..

Thanks.......  

[Kwan]

FWIW.....I talked to HT friday..and he said that there probably wouldn't be a fix for the blue line tearing problem with the voodoo5 with FSAA enabled....  

Took mine back and got a geforce 2 from Creative and will see....

I really miss that FSAA quality.. sigh...

seeya up there.......  

[SOB]

HT - if you're around, and the above is true, could you explain why?  The Voodoo 5 5500 using FSAA looks just incredible, and I doubt I'll be switching to anything else (except maybe for the 6000) anytime soon.


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[carl]

I'm running it on win2000 , maybe thats why i have no problem.

[SOB]

hmmm...My joystick currently doesn't have a driver under Win2k, but I'll throw a different one on, and try it out in my Win2k boot.  Thx carl

[SkyShark]

It's not a Win 2k issue.  I have the same blue streak problem with 98SE.  Very choppy game play with 4 or 2x FSAA in 32bit.  16 bit with 2x is not to bad. I am testing using a GForce 2 64mb from Hercules.  The FSAA is great but I may go for the GForce or maybe tne NV70 when it is released.   And remember after the V5 6k the Rampage is comming..... So many decisions to make!!!!!!

[carl]

Now that I think about it , when i had my disk parted and was running AH in win98 there was this blue 'tearing' , especially at sunset and sunrise it was really apparent.

[Creamo]

Hmmmm, so much for the support. I sold my V5500 on Ebay today for $217...ouch.

Whats the baddest card that WILL work with AH now ya think?

[hblair]

What was wrong with your card creamo? I have one ordered.

[Creamo]

The FSAA is wacky in AH, and never heard if they were going to fix it. You gotta see WWII Fighters or Falcon 4.0 with it though. BEeeeeeutiful.

Im going to get a low end GeForce card for now or the ATI card so I have a DVD in my computer room.

Im just waiting for the new Voodoo6 card that needs to be plugged in! Me and SOB both.

[SOB]

Hblair...The problems that everyone has with the Voodoo 5 5500 using FSAA in Windows 95 and 98 are...

-Terrain tearing.  Generally where to terrain angles meet each other, you'll see a thin blue line between the textures of the terrain.  Doesn't happen 100% of the time, but more often than not, you'll see it.

-Screwy lines show up on map on clipboard.  Just kind of wierd, not too much of a problem.

-Swimming gauges.  The gauges on the dash sometimes look like they're floating around a bit.

The most annoying or noticeable problem is probably the terrain tearing.  It gets less annoying with time, IMO, but is still quite noticeable, and I really hope it is fixed.

The only person I've heard that hasn't had these problems was Carl, and he is playing under Windows 2000.


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[hblair]

Aw crap, woulda gone geforce if I'd known that.   I'll give the voodoo a try, if its too bad, it'll be going back. Thanx for the info fellas.

[SOB]

Well toejam...sorry man!  I thought in the thread that I linked, I noted the problems, but on further inspection I guess I didn't!  D'oh!


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