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Hey Jay,

I pretty much keep Hardware Acceleration off as it screws up more than
it fixes...and Ghost Recon really doesnt like it. I have been so busy
lately that I only have time for Ghost and a very little bit of iL2
which I run with the Wicked OpenGL driver

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>I forgot, the bios on the card is 1.06...  Would it improve things for me to
>upgrade the bios.  The most recent on the 3dfx underground site is 1.18.
>There's also a 1.15
>"Jay Williams" <voodoo141@cox.net> wrote in message
>news:YR3x8.822$mk6.64963@news2.east.cox.net...
>> Since you are the acknowledge expert on the Voodoo card, I thought I would
>> seek your advice.
>>
>> I just updated to the 1.07.00 Beta drivers for the Voodoo 5500 from the
>> 1.04.00.  I get a large performance increase using Geometry assist, but
>> apparently it fakes out Direct X badly...  I get a failure using Direct X
>> 8.1 hardware acceleration using Geometry Assist, which prevents me from
>> running Fighter Ace 3 (knew there was a flight sim issue in here
>somewhere).
>> Probably others as well; it was FA3 where I noticed it first.
>>
>> Is there something else I should be selecting in the 3dfx Hub in order to
>> run Geometry Assist and have direct x 8.1 acceleration work?
>>
>> BTW,  no, I'm not some deranged 3dfx fan.  I was using this handle back on
>> the original warbirds years before 3dfx ever came into existance...  It's
>> from my college days at Tulane.  Just a happy coincidence.
>>
>>
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