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Hey, what about this registry file from Tripple Play 2000.  I have NBA Live
99 but it will only reconized the Voodoo setup, nothing else.


<pre@mail.utexas.edu> wrote in message
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>Picked up the 2000 AGP out of curiosity (I love overclocking) and
>decided to clock it up to 3000 speed (166mhz).  Installed it, driver
>install went okay, no problem.
>
>Before that though - Took a Pentium-sized fan (actually a ball-bearing
>fan off a Celeron heatsink) and secured it to the V3-2000 heatsink
>using a small rubber band thru the heatsink screw holes and the 2
>opposing holes near the V3 chip.  Moved the PCI card in slot 1 down so
>there was room next to the V3-2000 for both the fan as well as added
>airflow.
>
>Then I downloaded the V3 Overclocker 1.3 from voodooextreme.com, put
>the speed at 166mhz, enabled the higher quality video for glide and
>D3D ("22bit"), and disabled VSync.
>
>So far, so good. Games are running fine at the higher clock speed, I
>replaced a V2 SLI and an ATI Rage 128 combo... I can indeed see a bit
>better quality in some games, actually the map board in the first
>minute of half life (after the intro) when you walk into Black Mesa,
>the map behind the security guard that says "Black Mesa Research
>Facility", that had a distinct new contrast/saturation to it.  And
>elsewhere.  Expendable looks near indistinguishable from when I played
>on the ATI.
>
>The only place I could see remnants of 16-bit dithering was in smoke
>effects.... play NFS3 in the rain, look at your opponents water
>spray/trails behind them - ugly dithering! But that's an extreme
>example.
>
>2D quality is as good at my Rage 128 card, if not better.  Definite
>improvement over the TNT I tried at 1024 on  my monitor.
>
>Overall a good finished product, easy install. Performance compared to
>my SLI rig is fine (doesn't blow it away or anything).  Not a bad deal
>getting 3000 performance for the 2000 price.  Note by the time you buy
>a fan/heatsink whatever to use on the 2000, you might as well have
>bought a 3000 for the 20 buck difference .... so if you want a value
>thru overclocking I suggest you do it with the 2000 only if you have
>some heatsinks lying around that you can use the fans off of.
>
>At least it'll last me until the end of the year when everyone's
>nex-gen part comes out.
>
>Side note NOT ALL BANSHEE FIXES work for the V3... EA games are the
>worst example of this.. if you have NFS3 retail (not V3-3000 pack-in)
>you need to get the registry file from Triple Play 2000 to get NFS3 to
>recognize your V3 in 3dsetup.  Basically for any game that had
>problems recognizing the Banshee (esp. from EA) you will have similar
>problems.  Most everything else is problem free but EA needs to get
>off their butts and make up a 3Dsetup program that can deal with newer
>cards... it's limited to whatever cards they put in the 3ddata file
>when the game comes out.
>

<pre@mail.utexas.edu> wrote in message
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> The only place I could see remnants of 16-bit dithering was in smoke
> effects.... play NFS3 in the rain, look at your opponents water
> spray/trails behind them - ugly dithering! But that's an extreme
> example.

That's apparently a Glide issue - play it in Direct3D and the dithering goes
away.  Did you make sure to engage the high-quality filtering for Glide/GL apps
with the seperate utility?

On Sun, 18 Apr 1999 16:40:56 -0400, "Machiavellian"
<rruss@ameritech.net> wrote:

>Hey, what about this registry file from Tripple Play 2000.  I have NBA Live
>99 but it will only reconized the Voodoo setup, nothing else.
>

Try my NFS3 Fix post over on the 3dfx.products.voodoo2 group or
3dfx.games group... the reg. file is contained within.

<pre@mail.utexas.edu> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 18 Apr 1999 23:38:03 GMT, "Barney Gumble" <jittery@home.com>
> wrote:
>
> >That's apparently a Glide issue - play it in Direct3D and the dithering
goes
> >away.  Did you make sure to engage the high-quality filtering for
Glide/GL apps
> >with the seperate utility?
>
> Yup. I'll try it in D3D though.

The new filter seems to help a lot in Glide with the tire smoke type
effects...also, although I haven't checked it out to see, mipmap dithering
seems to help. I really don't know whether it's the mipmap dithering by
itself or the new filter by itself or both--but the tire-smoke effects seem
to have the old ugly dithering eliminated by 95% or so.




>

On Sun, 18 Apr 1999 23:38:03 GMT, "Barney Gumble" <jittery@home.com>
wrote:

>That's apparently a Glide issue - play it in Direct3D and the dithering goes
>away.  Did you make sure to engage the high-quality filtering for Glide/GL apps
>with the seperate utility?

Yup. I'll try it in D3D though.

On Mon, 19 Apr 1999 20:17:00 -0400, "Jonathan Harker"
<Limeyville@spamtoNull.com> wrote:

>
>The new filter seems to help a lot in Glide with the tire smoke type
>effects...also, although I haven't checked it out to see, mipmap dithering
>seems to help. I really don't know whether it's the mipmap dithering by
>itself or the new filter by itself or both--but the tire-smoke effects seem
>to have the old ugly dithering eliminated by 95% or so.

Well I turned mipmap on, check NFS3's opponent water trails in the
rain like I said... helps a little but this is a definite 16-bit
dithering effect/moire.  But fortunately it's the worst example...
haven't seen anything except improvements in all other games.

On Mon, 19 Apr 1999 02:51:33 GMT, pre@mail.utexas.edu wrote:

Oh and as a followup, running my 2000 (w/fan) at 175mhz, played
Requiem for 3 hrs., no lockup.

Slap that fan on your 2000 folks... and download Voodoo3 OC.... no
need to buy a 3000.... Although it is only $20 more at Best Buy (149)
so get the 3000 if you don't already have a fan off a heatsink to use.