Quote:i dont understand you. the drivers are googd and i cant think they mixed it. for mixing they run too good. other side all people believe in x3dfxgamers. now let the people believe. i believe too. this discussion is not the right way for the rest of the 3dfx community. i think x3dfxgamers works great and thats the only think what counted.
Well, noone ever said they wouldn't work, or were actually bad...
Quite ironically, it actually may be nice Drivers...
But anyway, if you can't
think they didn't do it, check it out for yourself, and
view the facts on your very own monitor, and draw your own conclusions.
- Compare "Date Modified" of File properties and File size
Self explanatory. A File recently created ( supposedly (c)2003, remember? ) will naturally carry an actual, more or less current Date. Now if it doesn't, something is already really shaky, and warrants deeper investigation. In most cases, this will directly lead to the original Files used. In several cases, both File size and Date match absolutely 100.00%.- Grab the corresponding, original GlideXP, 3dfx OpenGL and 3dfx DirectX Files matching the found Date/Timestamps (most do match downright to the very same second in Time), and view/find the actual changes in a good HEX-Editor, in side-by-side comparison..
A truly different, reprogrammed and/or recompiled File will show a multitude of differences, in rather many different positions inside the File. You will find differences only in 2 (!) single spots , the only reasonably different being (surprise) the modified Property Pages alone. No more questions asked from there on. Difference in File size in some cases was upto 512 Bytes... Note that some Property page entries were deleted, thus matching this small loss in size.Voila, that's all you need to see it yourself.
After you found the matching, original Files to compare, the Results will be blatantly obvious and persistent for literally all Core Files.
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To believe can be a very nice thing, but in the past it too often turned out to be important to double-check.
And sometimes, it just pays off to
confirm, rather than
believe.
To make sure, I'll say it again :
They might very well work just fine, ironically as it is.
Yet, I cannot accept this (from my perspective) as "fair play", neither can I believe, trust or confirm any of the promised features. That's it...
And certainly, if anyone had a reasonable explanation for those findings, I'd be happy to change my mind.
Yet, I could hardly think of any, as the discovered evidence is literally overwhelming.
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Those that still want to use it can find it for download in several places (Voodooalert, 3dfxzone), so there's really nothing lost
Also, I do not want to start any mudwar inbetween 2 3dfx Sites, I simply presented my findings, for everyone who is interested to see. Not less, and not more. From this point on, I just don't care about it anymore...
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