Voodoo 5 rendering Trouble

[Guest]

The game runs ok but i have herizontal lines, that flash across the sceen, in the menu and during the game. I have the Nov 2000 drivers that have been modified, from voodoo files, but they make no difference.
Any Ideas guys, help would be appriciated.

Cheers

Chips

[SChlonz]

Try to change from 16 to 32 bit this could help.
Turn V sync on but this will probably not solve your problem.

[Joe Siegler]

I have a Voodoo5 in my machine here at 3DR, and I've never messed with any settings, and don't have any problems.

[Joe Siegler]

Noting special - here's my driver info from dxdiag..

http://forums.3drealms.com/ubb/joepics/dxdiag.gif

[Schticky]

I've got the same card, and had similar problems previously with several games. But it seemed to happen only on shutdown of the given games.. I would get weird, snowy horizontal snowy lines rolling diagonally across my screen, along with horizontal banding.. The only thing I could do to make it go away was either restart, or start Combat Flight Sim2 and shut it back down.. (have absolutely no idea why this worked)

Two weeks ago, I yanked out my mobo and proc and upgraded them both.. Problem solved, a happy side effect for me..

Sadly, this was a known issue 3dfx was working on when they chaper 11'ed.. It was never resolved.. I'm not sure whether this was an issue with the mainboard, or the proc.. I was convinced it was just an annoyance I had to live with.. Anyway, my specs prior and now if it helps... (gotta understand, a hillbilly with no technical knowledge built this.. Me images/icons/grin.gif , I need to brag a lil)

Before:

Biostar crappy Biostar mobo M6TWG
Celeron 433 oc'ed via fsb to 488 (this is a huge boost for any celeron owners.. fsb is your biggest limiting factor)
V5 5500
SB Live! X-Gamer
320 MB RAM (Grrr @ only 2 dimm slots)
Cheap Maxtor 13 GB who knows how fast drive (it was slow)

For a lil over $300, I upgraded to

Abit KT7A mobo
1000 MHz AMD Tbird images/icons/grin.gif happy happy joy joy!! images/icons/grin.gif
V5 5500
SB Live! X-Gamer
384 MB Ram (Yayyy for three dimms)
30 GB 7200 rpm Maxtor

Kay enuff bragging now.. As I said, this is a known issue with that card, and the only way I was able to rid it (accidently mind you) was a major upgrade.. I'm thinking mobo may have been the issue.. good luck

Buck

[deck]

I'm having the same problems with my Voodoo5.

I'm using XP, so I'm going to be a special case. I switch drivers to the WinXP Voodoo drivers, but now the game says I don't have enough card memory to play at even 800x600x16bit. So I'm going to go back to the 3dfx drivers and try different compatability modes.

System:

Athlon800
256megs RAM
20gig HD
Voodoo5
SB Live 5.1
Ricoh CDR/RW

~D

[deck]

For me: Change the buffer from trilinear to bilinear. No more lines or choppiness or bad things or anything. Works great.

~D

[Guest]

Thanks for all your help guys, i'm yet to try most of them.
I too am on the verge of upgrading my proc. amd mobo, maybe it will help.
In the mean time I have put my old Voodoo Banshee in and that works fine, apart from the odd PC lock up. I assume this another issue for another thread.

TTFN

Chips

[HQH51]

Have you tried the latest official drivers? Go here to get it: http://www.3dfx.com/downloads.htm
Go there and get the 1.04.01 beta.

Also, if that doesn't fix it, you can get a beta driver that are unofficial: http://www.gamers-ammo.com/teste/x3dfxc.shtml
Go there and get the 1.08.00 beta.

Edit: Looks like the unofficial drivers were pulled down because a lot of people were slamming their server hard. The above link was to the driver set. I'll see if I could mirror it sometime later on. Here's a link that you should visit though: http://www.gamers-ammo.com/3dfxmod.shtml

[ 08-27-2001: Message edited by: HQH51 ]

[Guest]

I had the same problem as some of you guys, the vertical images crossing the screen. So I went to fileplanet.com and download the beta version for W2K, santo remedio, my problems went away, I can play even at high resolution, best graphics. The only thing is that I get killed too fast.