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Who uses tdfx bios editor?
05.08.03 at 16:32:26

The author of tdfx bios editor, Rainbow, wants to know is his program useful & helpful or not. So that he doesn't speak English (he's Russian as I am), I have to ask all of you and then tell him the results

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Your good response will encourage further development of the tdfx bios editor. And you can tell me what improvements do you want from this program - I will surely transmit them to Rainbow Wink

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DenisF Senior Member Offline So fluffy it hurts Posts: 409 Israel Gender:	Re: Who uses tdfx bios editor? Reply #1 - 05.08.03 at 19:47:08 I think he should get some decent hosting for it, cause at the moment all i see is a big 404 error in a language that i didn't read for over 10 years
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fin YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 3 Gender:	Re: Who uses tdfx bios editor? Reply #2 - 05.08.03 at 20:10:34 I'll move to a decent hosting up to mid-October. Download mirrors: http://www.donapex.net/~voodoo/files/bios/tdfx_bios_editor.rar Update: latest version always here http://download.overclockers.ru/video_bios/3dfx_bioses/utils/tdfxbioseditor.rar
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Re: Who uses tdfx bios editor?
Reply #3 - 05.08.03 at 21:09:39

Hi !

I use tdfx BIOS editor. I think it's better than the original 3dfx BIOS editor shipped with Banshee BIOS 1.00.10. Great work !

By the way, I sent you an email about 3dfx source code which contains BIOS source code. I hope you received it.

It would be interesting to compare V3 1000 BIOS or Velocity BIOS with Banshee BIOS for the second TMU issue . All are 32 Kb BIOSes ! Is Banshee in fact a Voodoo3 ?

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FalconFly YaBB Administrator Offline 3dfx Archivist Posts: 2445 5335N 00745E Gender:	Re: Who uses tdfx bios editor? Reply #4 - 05.08.03 at 21:15:00 Hm, he sent it to me just recently (today actually ), and I'll put it online for those that like to use it. (readme is in russian though, he said, so I might need to attach an online translated (ugh!) english version of it ) Personally never edited a Bios though, so I don't know what's to gain by doing it (?)
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Re: Who uses tdfx bios editor?
Reply #5 - 05.08.03 at 21:25:03

@ FalconFly

I used BIOS editor to edit dramInit0 and dramInit1 values in the BIOS. I found out that Gigabyte Banshee (aka GA-630) has got the best/fastest timings for SGRAM !

dramInit0 0x001698e9
dramInit1 0x00200031

The gain in Quake 3 Arena Demo V1.11 from ~30 FPS to ~35 FPS (with defaults settings), but only after also tweaking VIA MVP3 registers (4-way interleave, ...)

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FalconFly YaBB Administrator Offline 3dfx Archivist Posts: 2445 5335N 00745E Gender:	Re: Who uses tdfx bios editor? Reply #6 - 05.08.03 at 21:40:32 Ah okay... The SG-RAM Cards, I always wondered about, since they did have much more bandwidth potential (in theory), but 3dfx never seemed to take advantage of it (?) Still, feels like a dangerous business to flash the Cards with modified DRAM-init's (is there a way to test the timings before flash ? )
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PHOENIX Junior Member Offline Posts: 70 France Gender:	Re: Who uses tdfx bios editor? Reply #7 - 05.08.03 at 21:49:42 Yes ! You'll find the info here http://wave.prohosting.com/~pa3pyx/voodoo3.html BTW the SGRAM Write-Per-Bit feature is disabled by default. It may provide better performance. The Disable Dead Bus Cycle feature is also interesting. Regards
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PHOENIX Junior Member Offline Posts: 70 France Gender:	Re: Who uses tdfx bios editor? Reply #8 - 05.08.03 at 22:55:14 Quote: The gain in Quake 3 Arena Demo V1.11 from ~30 FPS to ~35 FPS (with defaults settings), but only after also tweaking VIA MVP3 registers (4-way interleave, ...) This is true for latest Banshee BIOS 1.00.10-SG with these SLOW timings dramInit0 0x0017A16A dramInit1 0x00548031 The fast timings are better Regards
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