sorry people.. voodoo again

[old.Khan]

I have the following setup :
Duron 600, 256Mb Ram, Voodoo 5500 AGP, SB Live!, DSL connection. Win ME.
I have latest drivers for everything (november drivers for 5500), and latest GL Setup drivers, and 8.0a DirectX installed.

I get between 3-25 FPS in either D3D or OPENGL....Inside or out

Help, I'm drowning in a slideshow >8(

How can I improve framerate. I don't want to change my voodoo for a GeForce, because it absolutely Rocks in Q3F...

Am I going to have to wait for WickedGL to do what Dynamix couldn't be bothered to do.... make it work for Voodoo users....

 

[old.Requ!em]

The Wicked3D driver will definately help on Intel chipset based systems, some improvement on AMD chipset systems. The Wicked3D driver is optimized for SSE/SSE2 which the current AMD chipsets don't support.

I've posted a summary of visual/connection tweaks and tips to the Savage Tribes2 forum. In your case look for both texture and CPU tweaks in my notes added to each explanation. I may add the information to the UC Guides at a later date - http://www.savageuk.com/ubb/Forum55/HTML/000031.html

[Edited by Requ!em on 28-04-01 at 17:07]

 

[old.Khan]

Thanks Requ!em

although It isn't smooth when the action starts.. It is at least playable
Requ!em, you are the Man .....

lets all hope that the Wicked 3D Drivers work nice

ps, I did try Wicked3D's current drivers and added a line to the games file, and yes, a major improvement was had graphically, and was really smooth. Unfortunately, I lost all the red/green team tags, and found that I Team-Killed just as much as I killed the enemy

 

[old.Shwaddy]

Why do I have to suffer because I have a Voodoo card?

I don't know if I'm having the same problem as you, exactly,
but I just wanted to post that I have tried with all kinds of ways to adjust my graphics so T2 will let me play, but,
every time I try to start a server, traning, etc. T2 kics me totally out of the game, and right before you get to play, too (It takes too much time to load for me)! I have a
Pentium II 300, a Voodoo 3 3000 graphics/video card (That is
probably what's messing up my Tribes 2), 192 megs of ram & a
12-gig hard drive. That should be overtly good enough to run
T2! Anyway, if anyone reads this and has the same problem, please email me (shwaddy@aol.com). Thanks for any help...

 

[Scouse]

P2-300???

Nah - you'd have to set everything on LOW detail.

Big time

Apparently the patch next week is mainly for Voodoo owners. But I hate to say it to you guys - especially the Voodoo5 owners - you've bought the wrong card - since 3dfx has gone the way of the dodo no-one in their right mind will be developing games which go all-out to support the voodoo line...

Harsh but just a fact of life...

 

[old.Aaad]

Yeah, Scouse is right...

I'm a Voodoo 5500 owner myself (that may change soon) and I've recently upgraded my system. Only yesterday infact.

I've basically gone from having a 450Mhz processor to a 1GHz machine and the difference is huge. However, even with the new setup Tribes 2 won't run anywhere near as smoothly as most other modern games, so I find it best to turn the detail down a little.

With my 450Mhz processor I did have to turn it right down and even then it was far from ideal. Sorry about that. Hopefully, future patches will deal with the issue. I know I'm keeping my fingers crossed for us Voodoo people.

 

[old.Requ!em]

Khan, glad to be of help =)

For future reference I've added the information to the UC Tribes2 Guide which can be found at the URL that follows:

FPS & Tweak Information - http://ucguides.savageuniverse.com/Tribes2/FPS_visuals.htm
Display and OpenGL Drivers - http://ucguides.savageuniverse.com/Tribes2/displaydrivers.htm

 

[old.Requ!em]

Shwaddy, you'll need the latest driver set for the Voodoo3 range. It could be a corrupt install, try the following:

• Install a clean Tribes2 and run the first aid utility to check that the files are valid. If they aren't the RTP patcher (difference type patcher) won't patch some files as they've an incorrect CRC. You end up with a mix and match of old and new files causing Unhandled Exception (UE) errors - http://sierrastudios.com/games/tribes2/t2_firstaid_v2.zip
  
• Download and install the file from the URL that follows and run the Tribes2 online game - http://tribes2update.sierra.com/
  
• Delete all files ending in *.dso from Tribes2 subdirectories. These are compiled scripts and Tribes2 doesn't recompile the updated scripts if a .dso is already present. This causes some problems, expections and performance. Tribes2 will recompile/recreate the updated dso's when next launched.