I'm using a voodoo5 5500 with the 1.04.01b drivers.

I have just noticed that although enabled on 3dfxtools, no splash screen shows in my system for any Glide/openGL game.

In my 3dfxtools advanced features options i have it enabled and I verified and checked the registry so the splash screen is supposed to appear.. why doesn't? what does happen? something to do with 3dfxSpl2.dll?

I have no important problems with the driver apart from this, im just curious.

BTW, I've found that you can manually edit the registry to add new options to the advanced features tab on 3dfxtools, no need to reinstall it at all!

It's quite easy if you see the other configurable options already on the registry.

I will explain the procedure I've succesfully used on win98se.

WARNING:

Screwing up the registry is crappity smacking up your windows installation, so be carefull. Although if you only change the stuff I say nothing bad could happen, I ACCEPT NO RESPONSABILITY FOR DAMAGES OR ANYTHING!

1.- Open the windows registry editor (regedit.exe in the windows folder)

2.- Browse the registry to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\Display"

3.- Inside this place, locate your voodoo card device number which holds folders and settings for your card, it could be either 0000, 0001, 0002 etc.. depending on what display adapters you have installed on your system before the voodoo.

4.- Go inside the registry "folder" that you want to add an advanced feature for, this could be "D3D" for direct3D settings or "Glide" for OpenGL/Glide stuff. I haven't tested adding stuff on the "DEFAULT" registry folder, but I guess that anything added there will appear on the "General" section.

5.- CLOSE 3DFXTOOLS RUNNING PROGRAMS IF ANY

6.- From there add a registry key named as you want (suppossed to be descriptive), for example "3dfx Watermark" on \Glide registry key.

7.- Add registry values as needed, you can simply mimetize the settings for any other tweak already there, for our example we just need a Enable/Disable simple thing. You can see my registry for this example on the following screenshot:



Don't forget any entry or it may not work. The most relevant value is the "Tweak Value" entry, which MUST correspond to the registry tweak you want to be applied on that registry folder (Glide/D3D), you can search the web (falconfly archive has a list of possible values) for possible tweaks. All registry values there MUST BE of string type even if they are numbers, don't use binary or DWORD (double word) stuff at all or it won't work.

Thats it, now run 3dxtools hub and you will see the "3dfx Watermark" option on your 3dfx advanced features list, under OpenGL/Glide.

(Corrections/comments are welcome)

BTW, I think this kind of registry tweaks would be the best way to incorporate MesaFX specific settings to 3dfxtools. I offer myself voluntary to create a small win32 proggie in C to automatically add mesaFX stuff to 3dfxtools advanced items, if some1 supplies me with the mesaFX information..  

Thanks for letting me know dborca!

Another nice addition to the advanced features could be a vertical sync tweak for direct3D.
Simply copy the same registry values for the existing tweak at glide on the D3D key except the "Tweak Value" which must be "SSTH3_SWAPINTERVAL" and not "FX_GLIDE_SWAPINTERVAL".