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I was actually just going into the cfg file and working on it there, me and the quake cfg file go wayyyyyyy..... back. I'll grab some other tools too.

Just tried a Epox KT-266A board, thought I fried Rampage! VGA even in DOS was garbled so bad it looked like a Tartan plaid.

Everything ok back in the KT-333 board, go figure! Everything in the BIOS settings looks the same too, arg.

Question- I tried two of the OpenGL tools with no luck but noted that one of the tools let you check individual OpenGL driver features.

Is there such a tool for DirectX? Perhaps if we could figure out what feature is causing the board to hang it would be easier to fix the drivers.

gdonovan wrote on 22.06.13 at 14:26:12:


See in the link bellow a few useful DX tools for various flavors Windows:
http://www.mdgx.com/dx.htm#DX8

Search for the download link for the following two:
http://www.mdgx.com/files/dxtest.php
http://www.boostware.com/hardware/video/directcontrol.html

I hope this helps.

Good luck,
G1nX

gdonovan wrote on 22.06.13 at 19:46:24:


I'm glad to hear that.

Looking forward to the test results.

Cheers,
G1nX

New youtube video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NomMCmGdHFk&feature=youtu.be

3dfx Rampage running a number of old school Direct3D tests- Rampage on the left and 3dfx V4-4500 @ 183 mhz on the right (LCD has Dell on the bottom) for comparison. Included in testing is a BSOD, a lock up and my daughters pink keyboard I swiped for testing. DirectX had been rolled back to DX7 but drivers are still unstable with crash at always the same address "OD" Sorry for the video quality, I stitched 10 video together and I'm not that pleased with the results, lots of compression. The final video running is some German? PC game magazine benchmark with Rampage running RGB emulation mode. Prior to that video you can see it trying to run with massive rendering errors (4:10 mark).

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Still not possible but gets a little closer each time..

Motherboard news!

The KT-226A board just stopped working, I was going to use it for the 4500 platform and took it back out of the box and it had gone to the great recycle bin in the sky... won't get past the BIOS screen no matter what and sometimes doesn't even make it that far.

In better news I dusted off a VA6 Slot One board (VIA Apollppro 133 chipset) and it works VERY well with Rampage. Several of the DX test programs will run for much longer period of time before crashing or not crashing at all. I was even able to run Unreal in accelerated mode and aside from some textures flickering here and there it ran well before locking up after a pass. Before it would be a big mess and freeze after a few seconds.

I need to do a clean reinstall of Windows as this unit was used just for testing Intel chipped V5-6000's.

osckhar wrote on 23.06.13 at 09:54:12:


That is a standard AGP slot, it was developed by intel and was adopted by everyone. The ideal solution would be to find out what brand (abit, intel, gigabyte, micron) and what chipset (BX, LX, Irongate, apollopro) and model was used by the 3dfx software engineers who were developing the drivers for Rampage. If we use the same motherboard they were it would maximize our odds of having a stable platform.