Re: Quake3 + XFree86-4.0.3 + Voodoo3 = Death Slow

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From: Andy Furniss
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 11:21

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Fredrik Olausson wrote:

> I second that - there is something distinctly wrong with the 3dfx
> drivers. I finally got mine working half-decent, but Unreal Tournament
> looked like crap because of the 16 bit colordepth the 3dfx driver uses,

Voodoo 3s don't do 3d in any other depth - it's not the driver.

Andy.

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