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Re: Doom 3 on Voodoo 5 : this is posssible !
21.08.04 at 21:16:20

@patience,

Kudo's to Daniel for his efforts, but I have been fooling around this morning with the new .dll's and although now the game starts it's very buggy and always kick's out to the desktop within minutes Sad

From what I have gotten to see in the 15 or so minutes I've gotten to play a bit, the game looks absolutely terrible (textures and lighting are not right at all), funny thing was that the frame rate was a bit better than I had expected on my system, maybe because it's not rendering the scenes correctly Undecided

This new wave of modern game's are just going to overwhelm the older cards capabilities Cry

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voodoo5500 Full Member Offline Proud 3dfx gamer Posts: 197 Canada Gender:	Re: Doom 3 on Voodoo 5 : this is posssible ! Reply #1 - 22.08.04 at 02:39:36 @patience, Here's proof positive it runs on my system now, forcing 32 bit helped the stability for me http://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=358&whichpage=30
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Re: Doom 3 on Voodoo 5 : this is posssible !
Reply #2 - 22.08.04 at 15:15:28

Which of the two D3-MESA releases did you use @Voodoo5500? ???

Was it the one released on the 20th (1st) or the one on the 21st (2nd)? ???

Let us know... Wink

Also some more details on how you got it to run stable... Grin

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Yup, it does INDEED run on a V5500 - I've got it up and running on my Uncles V5500 PC... Grin

I used Mesa 21st (2nd) to run it... Cheesy

But HOW do you FORCE 32bit? The game keeps crashing in 16bit... ???

Let us know will ya' @Voodoo5500! Wink

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Re: Doom 3 on Voodoo 5 : this is posssible !
Reply #3 - 22.08.04 at 18:14:34

@patience,

To clarify, my first post should be taken in the context that I have just recently finished/experienced the game on a Athlon 64 3400, Radeon 9800 pro (High graphical set-up) and in sheer frustration of my 15 or so desktop crashes trying to get the game to run on my 5500 system with Mesafx.

As I mentioned earlier my forcing 32 bit rendering in the 3dfx tools is what I am attributing to the increased stability I am now experiencing.

Before even attempting to run the game with mesa, I wanted to eliminate potential problems and set my processor, video card and 3dfx tools to factory defaults.

@paulpsomiadis,

8/21/2004. Game settings = low detail and 640 x 480 resolution.

If someone has a similiar or more powerful sytem than mine (the fortunate few of you with 6000's), can stomach the current graphical errors and low frame rates in graphically intensive moments, then I guess to some extent we can consider this another miracle victory for the older cards Grin

It aint pretty, and should not be considered practical if you want to experiece Doom3 in all of it's glory, but for me anyway it will run as I played about a 1/2 hr. session last night before going to bed Wink

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Re: Doom 3 on Voodoo 5 : this is posssible !
Reply #4 - 22.08.04 at 22:06:58

@Voodoo5500 is correct, the "Force 32bit Rendering" option in 3Dfx tools does increase stability... Wink

[even though I wouldn't know as I ALREADY had it turned on - DOH! Tongue

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Even with this 'increased' stability, the game is still pretty flakey... Tongue

It will usually hold out until the FPS drops below 2FPS then BOOM - you get kicked back to desktop! Cry

I had the game at LOWEST detail - 640x480 (pretty much everything OFF in advanced options, except VSYNCH...) Shocked

All this aside, it's STILL one hall of an achievement to actually RUN DOOM 3 on a V5500! Grin

Kudos to our resident MESA man @Dborca! 8)

May he bring us many more 'surprises' such as this one! Wink

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voodoo5500 Full Member Offline Proud 3dfx gamer Posts: 197 Canada Gender:	Re: Doom 3 on Voodoo 5 : this is posssible ! Reply #5 - 23.08.04 at 21:50:47 @patience, I'm curious to know if you have Doom3 running on a system yet ? and if you do, how do you like it ?
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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: Doom 3 on Voodoo 5 : this is posssible ! Reply #6 - 24.08.04 at 04:29:25 My prediction... @Patience will say "It's too d@mn DARK!" LOL!
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voodoo5500 Full Member Offline Proud 3dfx gamer Posts: 197 Canada Gender:	Re: Doom 3 on Voodoo 5 : this is posssible ! Reply #7 - 24.08.04 at 05:19:29 @patience, I almost cant believe how much better things are now Daniel may just pull this off
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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: Doom 3 on Voodoo 5 : this is posssible ! Reply #8 - 26.08.04 at 19:27:46 Indeed, the game is VERY stable now! I've been playing for a while with no crashes... Still haven't tried Medium detail YET, but I'll get round to it! Kudos again Daniel! 8)
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The_Doctor Ex Member	Re: Doom 3 on Voodoo 5 : this is posssible ! Reply #9 - 26.02.05 at 15:07:05 Aww! This is exelent Cant wait to get my Voodoo 5 working with DooM 3 But I will have to get WINE working on my considerabily more advanced linux distrobution than yours first God i am thirsty, I need a Doctor pepper!
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LuxKiller65 God Member Offline Posts: 680 Luxembourg Gender:	Re: Doom 3 on Voodoo 5 : this is posssible ! Reply #10 - 26.02.05 at 20:44:47 Quote: But I will have to get WINE working on my considerabily more advanced linux distrobution than yours first STOP SAYING THAT EVERYTIME YOU POST A MESSAGE!
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The_Doctor Ex Member	Re: Doom 3 on Voodoo 5 : this is posssible ! Reply #11 - 27.02.05 at 23:25:11 Well I am sorry for airing my opinions! Listen... If you want I can send you a copy But i will downgrade it so mine is still considerablily more advanced than yours Admin note : Spammer banned...
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LuxKiller65 God Member Offline Posts: 680 Luxembourg Gender:	Re: Doom 3 on Voodoo 5 : this is posssible ! Reply #12 - 28.02.05 at 18:07:35 Thanks for stopping the massacre.
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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: Doom 3 on Voodoo 5 : this is posssible ! Reply #13 - 01.03.05 at 02:16:46 Thank GOD, he was a "considera-silly-billy"... ...translation: MORON!
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OutOfRange Senior Member Offline Posts: 348 Switzerland Gender:	Re: Doom 3 on Voodoo 5 : this is posssible ! Reply #14 - 01.03.05 at 07:41:17 i'm going to test doom3 this evening on my new V2 SLI sys (Hellrockin'Soyo KT333 Dragon Ultra Black [damn long name ] with 2400+ 8) )
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