GPL cant get voodoo2 to work

Have I missed something..... I cant get my creative Lab voodoo2 card to work with GPL all I get is a black screen. It works fine on software accelaration but not with my 3dfx card. Thanks Steve

In the V2 control panel in display properties, under the Advanced button... Force Trilinear texture filtering for Direct3D games must be unchecked. I think this was in the readme.txt for the game. If I remember correctly, this is what fixed it for me. -- Philip M. D'Amato "You can observe a lot just by watchin'" --The Inimitable Yogi Berra

Use your Voodoo Control Panel to change the options. That'll clear up black area.

I dont have any of the advanced option ticked, and it still dont work. I have tried various combinations with no luck. Could anybody tell me exactly which advanced option need to be ticked. Thanks Steve

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>In the V2 control panel in display properties, under the Advanced button... >Force Trilinear texture filtering for Direct3D games must be unchecked. I >think this was in the readme.txt for the game. If I remember correctly, >this is what fixed it for me. >-- >Philip M. D'Amato >"You can observe a lot just by watchin'" >--The Inimitable Yogi Berra >>Have I missed something..... >>I cant get my creative Lab voodoo2 card to work with GPL all I get is a >>black screen. It works fine on software accelaration but not with my 3dfx >>card. >>Thanks >>Steve

Here's what I've got on mine (that works): In the ADVANCED Control Panel Selection CHECK..that's right CHECK the following: 1] The top 3 out of the 4 Direct 3D Advanced

2nd part.. 2] First 2 of the Glide properties. All I can say is that it works for me.... Good Luck!

Tried all that, didn't make any difference. could it be anything too do with directX version as I've installed some games that have only just came out and they may have insatlled a newer ver of directX than GPL was tested on. Although I not sure what version of directX I've got... The newest games I have are: Tomb Raider 3 Combat Flight simm Wargasm Is anybody else running these games...... Thanks Steve

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>2nd part.. >2] First 2 of the Glide properties. >All I can say is that it works for me.... >Good Luck!

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>On Sat, 5 Dec 1998 22:19:00 -0500, "Philip M. D'Amato" >>In the V2 control panel in display properties, under the Advanced button... >>Force Trilinear texture filtering for Direct3D games must be unchecked. I >>think this was in the readme.txt for the game. If I remember correctly, >>this is what fixed it for me. >Unchecked here and still a black screen (monitor in standby). I can >CTRL-F9 back to the 98 desktop and GPL is running in the background but >never actually loads. Only option is to close the program after it stops >responding.

Have u tried the brand new CL drivers released only a couple of days ago, I'm using them on my Righteous 3d2's and they work fine ,it found both and installed software for each all in 1 go. The easiest to install yet, replaced everything it needed to ,without having to delete anything 1st and they are the 1st drivers to use the final release of dx6. Have u tried the sweep utility to clean out any old versions . It sounds to me like a similar problem I had ages ago (with V1 then ) when u have actually installed parts from 2 different sets of drivers and some things work fine and others don't. Used to have same problem if the wrong glide version was loaded in game directory on V1 I don't know if it is relevant on v2. Cant imagine this being the problem ,but u haven't got your card set at too high a refresh rate for 640*480 have u? anyway good luck Vince Fisher

Check out Microsofts directX pages, they have a problem solving page (including black screens) at http://support.microsoft.com/support/directx/directx_6.0/tshooter/def... for directx 6 http://support.microsoft.com/support/directx/tshooter/default.asp for directx 5

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>On Sun, 6 Dec 1998 21:28:05 +0000, Vince Fisher >>anyway good luck >I need it, this is sending me nuts. I've tried every driver going but >this started before I started messing about with drivers. The CL drivers >didn't help and were a pig to remove properly. >I'm at a loss, considering a re-install of 98... >-- >Derek James >ICQ #5854786

Jeff "National loyalties say I should be driving the Brabham, but damn it, that Lotus is just way too much fun"

>Thanks for the tip. DirectX games are however just fine. It's native >3dfx games like GPL that are causing the problem and sending the monitor >into standby mode. I don't think you've done it wrong, but you did use the VGA pass through thingy, didn't you? Remco