I recently booted up my vintage gaming machine for some old action, but I am having troubles with these games.  I am sure that patches were made for 3dfx cards for these games.  So what I am asking is, are there any patches for 3DFX cards of Need For Speed III, High Stakes, and Porsche Unleashed?  I don't like the cruddy performance of the Glide driver for NFS III, I don't like to stick with the software driver for NFS High Stakes, and NFS Porsche Unleashed software is terrible as well.  If results were found, PLEASE post them here....  :)

I really would like to play the PC versions of these games.

And, if needed, my old PC's specs are here:

• Intel PIII 450 MHz
  
• PC100 SDRAM 384MB (non-ECC)
  
• 3DFX Voodoo3 3000 AGP
  
• Creative Labs Sound Blaster 128D
  
  

NFS Porsche defaults to DX7 driver, but this can be changed from the 3d configuator to glide - the performance will be much better and also the image quality. I remember playing NFS Porsche on V2 - awesome image quality - the colors looked very vivid, no other cards can render it so nice - I am now playing on 8800 Ultra and it simply doesn't look so good.

maybe this will be a bit helpful: http://www.falconfly.de/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1077242013/6#6

Thank you so much!  It has never looked better!  Also, if anyone needs it, mirrors have been posted here:

www.filewatcher.com/m/nfs3_update.zip.84830.0.0.html

..guys,is something special required to get nfs5 running in glide mode 1024*768 using v2 sli?

ps47 wrote on 20.04.11 at 18:51:13:

..guys,is something special required to get nfs5 running in glide mode 1024*768 using v2 sli?

Try to edit 3dsetup.ini and change

CARD_3Dfx Voodoo2 /M:dx /I

to

CARD_3Dfx Voodoo2 /M:voodoo2 /I

ok,everything is fine,just a little mixup with glides.thanks anyway.

ps47 wrote on 23.01.10 at 13:13:06:

maybe this will be a bit helpful: http://www.falconfly.de/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1077242013/6#6

thank you for your link  8-) 8-)

Thank you for sharing something new to learn.

I, on the other hand, continue to have problems making Need For Speed 3 work on my machine.
Even with the release and unofficial patches I can't manage to make the game pass the loading screen.
It loads and at 100% it freakin' freezes !
...every Goddamned time.

I'd love to help out. But that would require actually having NFS III, doesn't it ?  :D

So: if anyone has an idea on how that could be *uhum* made possibe, that would be awesome *wink* *wink*  ;)

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So we're you pointing at ?
That you regret not having NFS 3 ?

Dexter wrote on 18.06.12 at 08:26:39:

So we're you pointing at ? That you regret not having NFS 3 ?

yup  ;)

:)  :-X

AzzKickr wrote on 17.06.12 at 19:42:06:

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