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Need For Speed voodoo patches (3-5)
23.01.10 at 00:35:01
 
I recently booted up my vintage gaming machine for some old action, but I am having troubles with these games.  I am sure that patches were made for 3dfx cards for these games.  So what I am asking is, are there any patches for 3DFX cards of Need For Speed III, High Stakes, and Porsche Unleashed?  I don't like the cruddy performance of the Glide driver for NFS III, I don't like to stick with the software driver for NFS High Stakes, and NFS Porsche Unleashed software is terrible as well.  If results were found, PLEASE post them here....  Smiley

I really would like to play the PC versions of these games.

And, if needed, my old PC's specs are here:
  • Intel PIII 450 MHz
  • PC100 SDRAM 384MB (non-ECC)
  • 3DFX Voodoo3 3000 AGP
  • Creative Labs Sound Blaster 128D
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Re: Need For Speed voodoo patches (3-5)
Reply #1 - 23.01.10 at 01:48:12
 
NFS Porsche defaults to DX7 driver, but this can be changed from the 3d configuator to glide - the performance will be much better and also the image quality. I remember playing NFS Porsche on V2 - awesome image quality - the colors looked very vivid, no other cards can render it so nice - I am now playing on 8800 Ultra and it simply doesn't look so good.
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Reply #2 - 23.01.10 at 13:13:06
 
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Re: Need For Speed voodoo patches (3-5)
Reply #3 - 27.01.10 at 00:46:04
 
Thank you so much!  It has never looked better!  Also, if anyone needs it, mirrors have been posted here:

www.filewatcher.com/m/nfs3_update.zip.84830.0.0.html
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Reply #4 - 20.04.11 at 18:51:13
 
..guys,is something special required to get nfs5 running in glide mode 1024*768 using v2 sli?
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Reply #5 - 20.04.11 at 21:41:34
 
ps47 wrote on 20.04.11 at 18:51:13:
..guys,is something special required to get nfs5 running in glide mode 1024*768 using v2 sli?


Try to edit 3dsetup.ini and change

CARD_3Dfx Voodoo2 /M:dx /I

to

CARD_3Dfx Voodoo2 /M:voodoo2 /I
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Reply #6 - 20.04.11 at 22:15:11
 
ok,everything is fine,just a little mixup with glides.thanks anyway.
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Reply #7 - 08.08.11 at 10:18:43
 
ps47 wrote on 23.01.10 at 13:13:06:

thank you for your link  Cool Cool
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Reply #8 - 11.10.11 at 15:03:46
 
Thank you for sharing something new to learn.
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Reply #9 - 22.05.12 at 13:04:59
 
I, on the other hand, continue to have problems making Need For Speed 3 work on my machine.
Even with the release and unofficial patches I can't manage to make the game pass the loading screen.
It loads and at 100% it freakin' freezes !
...every Goddamned time.

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Reply #10 - 17.06.12 at 19:42:06
 
I'd love to help out. But that would require actually having NFS III, doesn't it ?  Cheesy

So: if anyone has an idea on how that could be *uhum* made possibe, that would be awesome *wink* *wink*  Wink

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Reply #11 - 18.06.12 at 08:26:39
 
So we're you pointing at ?
That you regret not having NFS 3 ?
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Reply #12 - 18.06.12 at 11:08:53
 
Dexter wrote on 18.06.12 at 08:26:39:
So we're you pointing at ?
That you regret not having NFS 3 ?


yup  Wink

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Re: Need For Speed voodoo patches (3-5)
Reply #13 - 11.11.12 at 12:44:56
 
AzzKickr wrote on 17.06.12 at 19:42:06:
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