hey lecram
take the shit from your eyes and look at the 1.05.00er on voodoofiles. the driver have the best quote ever. and this drivers faked?? no way stupid gas here.

Yep, those that want to use fakes, created by kids, are free to do so....

But the fact remains :
Cheap Plagiats, relabeled Files, and completely nonsense Features that they were advertised to have.

Since this is not a Kindergarden, this is not the right place for them; discuss them where they came from please
(those that use them should know where to go)
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Sidenote :

I wonder if our Guest is aware that he wrote the Posting right into the Thread, that proves everything "x3dfxgamers" have ever delivered, were and are nothing but Fakes...

I suspect someone is attempting to keep their Name up on Top Spot in the Forum.

Fine... Everyone shall read why x3dfxgamers are the absolute bottom of everything 3dfx, the laughter of the entire community. (at least those that can actually use a File Manager, seems this ability is not with everyone).

Final Note :
Voodoofiles links everything, and I shall add the Members of x3dfxgamers wrote their intention to artificially increase/manipulate review scores by themselfes into their very own Forum

Go Figure...

They are a bad joke, not more.

Yes it unfortunately only takes a simple hex editor to change the version info in a dll file (or executable).  This has been done alot.

With many of these 3rd party releases this is the case, yet the developers 'market' them with new tools programs and installers.  When all that is really required is the inf release notes and any recompiled dll's etc.  The average user is baffled and believes they are getting a 'new driver' most of the time you won't see much difference between these and the last official 3dfx drivers, especially with Win9x.

The emphasis seems to be on fooling people that this is a 'new driver', to increase the overall 'creed' of the petty 'sub-community' invloved in the developement.

Competition of which is quite hilarious to some of the ex employees of 3dfx and STB.

"Relabel = 1
Repackage =1
Redesign = 0

Until this is remedied and the focus is shifted from Direct3D to Glide/OpenGL, 3dfx cards will really die a death.  I have seen so many users struggle to get games working in D3D9 with 3DA on a Voodoo and actually succeed then buy a new card anyway because it looked terrible and ran slowly.  Surely improving OpenGL support should have been the priority all along?  Not getting new 'kids games' to work on the appalling Windows XP.  The people that want games running in Direct3D 9.0 on XP are not the die hard users, they are for the most part the people who will be buying a new card in a month or so.

It is quite obvious to all that these drivers are just reused material.  You shouldn't need the evidence falconfly produced much earlier in this topic just look at these files.  Use a hex editor to compare them.  Easy.  Case closed.

Well, nice thoughts, but the Gameing Industry is really driven only by Money.

So unless you can toss (quite) a few Million hard Dollars at each company, they will not take the time to port entire Engines to a long abandoned API, trying to run on limited, by now really rare spread Hardware (which would cost Millions itself, and occupy valuable personell for month)

...Hate to disillusion you, but it just won't happen.

I'm afraid you're not quite aware of the Personell and Money needed, when it comes to porting or creating a 3D Engine.

This is usally a process of > years < , and performed by an entire Team of highly qualified (and paid!) Programmers.

In 2 weeks, it's not even remotely possble to Patch all Bugs in an existing Engine, let alone even port one.

For 2000$, you'll find any company on the market now wouldn't even bother talking to you.

Time is Money in this Industry, and Porting eats up a whole lot of time (sometimes more than creating something from scratch).
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There are numerous Problems arising :

- Glide was never intended to provide upto 1Mio Polygon/sec Sceneries (the goal of current developments). It is waay to inefficient for that.

- Supported Hardware (3dfx) is mostly not, or only very limited capable of the current mainstream key requirements : Hardware T&L, large Texture support, big Texture Memory, alot of 3D Effects

Trust me, it just isn't that simple.

If it was, every Game would have inherent Direct3D, OpenGL, Glide, S3 Metal, Mesa support etc.

Translating "on the fly" is also no fully possible, since OpenGL does not have equivalent functions for all Direct3D Calls, same is valid for any other API.

It would lead to a myriad of Workarounds and dirty fixes, that would leave the Engine run slow as crap, visually degraded and in the end, buggy...

Just look at the few attempts to wrap Direct3D to OpenGL calls. They code on this for >1 year now, and new DirectX releases actually are done faster than they can even finish the existing one (I think they're still early Beta for DirectX8 > OpenGL 1.2)  

Now, there's DirectX9.0b and OpenGL 1.3/1.4 and upcoming 2.0

Believe me, for 2000$ you could take a leading 3D Engine Team "out for dinner", but they sure won't port something for you.
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PS.
This is way Off-Topic now, so you could open a separate Thread for it all on its own

Ai don't come to place when you think at how to translate instructions from your 3d engine to d3d or opengl...

Anyway, discussion has deviated from the topic start: X3dfxgamers...