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Old 07-04-2004, 09:00 PM   #1
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Question Best distro for 3DFX Gaming


Hi all.
I whas wondering what is the best distro for 3DFX gaming???
I have a XP 2000+, 3DFX Voodoo 5 5500 AGP and 512MB of ram.
I use Slackware and i get about 1600 FPS in glxgears, no mather what version of slack i use, i get the same.
I use slack because i love it and because it has 3DFX drivers support like Glide3X and other stuff in extra directory in slack ftp, check it out...
Some games run fine but for instance itīs impossible to run Enemy Territury, because itīs really sloooooow
Can any expirienced 3DFX gamer give me a good distro recomendation?
I really like one distro that have support for 3dfx.
Thanks.

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Old 07-05-2004, 05:25 AM   #2
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Anyone plz?
Thankz.

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Old 07-05-2004, 06:25 AM   #3
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Sorry. I retired my voodoo 3 quite a while back and went nvidia across the board for conformity in the PC's...

I also don't have ET, only RTCW, which runs well on this box even though I get half the FPS in glgears that you get. Is ET a lot tougher to run than something like RTCW? I have a p3 700 with nvidia gf4mx440 type card.

I only ran things like unreal back when I had the voodoo...
 
Old 07-05-2004, 11:42 AM   #4
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Tks for replying.
Whel i can run RTCW good also, but iīm shure that my card is well configured....
The point whas if there was a better support distro for 3DFX i whant to give it a trie, for that i need someone opinion, someone with expirience in 3DFX gaming...
Tkz.

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Old 10-29-2004, 02:50 PM   #5
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Driver for voodoo 5 and higher does not support 2x VSA 100 and 64 ram on cards .Voodoo 5 5500 runing how voodoo 4 1x vsa 100 and 32 memory but perform this card is horrible i have voodoo 3 and voodoo 5 and voodoo 3 = voodoo 5 in the linux .Driver tdfx is old and develop for this driver is dead
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