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Geri Full Member Offline Posts: 216 Gender:	Bad news: no more 3dfx drivers in linux 28.08.11 at 18:55:25 support for 3dfx, s3, sis, and support for other older 3d gpus removed from linux forever. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTg0Mg
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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: Bad news: no more 3dfx drivers in linux Reply #1 - 28.08.11 at 22:13:56 Current RAGE level of 3Dfx Linux users... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiMHTK15Pik
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Re: Bad news: no more 3dfx drivers in linux
Reply #2 - 29.08.11 at 11:38:05

Geri wrote on 28.08.11 at 18:55:25:

support for 3dfx, s3, sis, and support for other older 3d gpus removed from linux forever.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTg0Mg

I really don't see why anyone should care. If you want to use a 3dfx card you'll use it on a old hardware and on an old OS.

I will *never* understand why some people insist on using a V2 card in a modern I7 machine with Windows 7... Only because "it can be done" ? It's really stupid if you ask me, you use 3dfx to play glide games, not just to have an extra piece of hardware in your machine.

Even more stupid is trying to force new games to run on old 3dfx hardware, see Doom3 on V2. Why would you do that ? Again, just to prove it's possible ?

So I think that removing code for such old card from Linux is actually a very good thing, if you want to use Voodoo cards on Linux you can (and you should) use an older machine and an older version from any Linux distro.

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Re: Bad news: no more 3dfx drivers in linux
Reply #3 - 29.08.11 at 11:54:14

RaverX wrote on 29.08.11 at 11:38:05:

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I will *never* understand why some people insist on using a V2 card in a modern I7 machine with Windows 7... Only because "it can be done" ? It's really stupid if you ask me, you use 3dfx to play glide games, not just to have an extra piece of hardware in your machine.

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I know some people will think I'm a dick, but Windows 98SE is what really makes 3dfx hardware go.

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Re: Bad news: no more 3dfx drivers in linux
Reply #4 - 29.08.11 at 12:58:00

Yes, Windows 98 SE is the perfect OS for all 3dfx cards and 99% of glide games will work the best under that OS and you can always boot in DOS mode for very old games.

It's not a very stable OS, XP is much, much better, but you can't have everything

And the most important thing : an oldschool rig should have evrything inside oldschool : cpu, motherboard, video, OS, drivers...

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goriath God Member Offline Ruggedized Retro Gamer Posts: 599 Italy/Slovenija Gender:	Re: Bad news: no more 3dfx drivers in linux Reply #5 - 29.08.11 at 21:17:58 Win98SE, Win2000 at most XP. I see that I am not the only to think it this way.
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Geri Full Member Offline Posts: 216 Gender:	Re: Bad news: no more 3dfx drivers in linux Reply #6 - 29.08.11 at 21:19:48 okay, noticed the oppinions above, then i dont fork the project
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Re: Bad news: no more 3dfx drivers in linux
Reply #7 - 30.09.11 at 21:28:25

I know this is a bit old, but I don't think that running a 3Dfx card under a modern version of Linux is stupid at all, and at the same time, this is not that big of a deal. For starters, not everyone may have room for or cannot manage owning multiple comps just for the sake of having a retro gaming PC set aside. Then aside from that, what about all of these famous glide wrappers that people love so dammed much? On top of that, dosbox is just now supporting SST-1, so there's many alternatives here.

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Reply #8 - 30.09.11 at 23:06:12

blueshogun96 wrote on 30.09.11 at 21:28:25:

I know this is a bit old, but I don't think that running a 3Dfx card under a modern version of Linux is stupid at all, and at the same time, this is not that big of a deal. For starters, not everyone may have room for or cannot manage owning multiple comps just for the sake of having a retro gaming PC set aside. Then aside from that, what about all of these famous glide wrappers that people love so dammed much? On top of that, dosbox is just now supporting SST-1, so there's many alternatives here.

Correct. Old rigs are for hardcore fans and they should make this little sacrifice if they are hardcore. Most wrappers are decent enough to satisfy all other users.

And even if you want to use real hardware in a new computer you can do it much better installing a "legacy" OS on a separate HDD (or even on a partition on your main HDD), most glide applications won't even work properly under a modern OS anyway.

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