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  1. Re:great.... by atrowe · · Score: 4 · on 3dfx Drops Video Card Division

    Actually, 3Dfx does support Linux. You can download Linux drivers for all 3dfx chipsets here

  2. 3D hardware for the Mac market... by Guppy · · Score: 2 · on ATI Radeon 256

    Mac video hardware has definitely fallen behind the PC, with the dual-processor Rage Maxx being unable to run properly in the current Macs due to motherboard issues. So what else is out there?

    Right now, 3dfx has Mac drivers and a bios flash that will allow your standard PCI V3 for the PC to work with a Mac. The drivers are beta, but the card is cheap (since you don't have to pay the Mac hardware premium), and test show it blowing away ATI's cards (In 3D, 2D is so-so). Only problem is that the V3 wasn't designed with Mac support in mind, so there are a few hardware issues that may never go away.

    The V5, on the other hand, was designed to support the Mac from the beginning. The Mac version has already been demoed (Rumor has it the Mac version was ready before the PC one). Here's an article from InsideMacGames. 3dfx is coming out with PCI only at first, AGP may come later.

    nVidia has announced that they intend to bring out a Mac card sometime later this year, possibly the NV15 or a varient thereof. They've released little info on this--but they did hire some director or manager guy away from Apple a few months ago.

  3. Re:Wow by Star+Traveller · · Score: 1 · on Loki to Distribute Quake III Arena
    The speed is very peculiar.
    Do you have the Voodoo GL driver?
    Go to www.3dfxgamers.com to get it

  4. 3DFX DRI already out... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on NVidia releasing OpenGL ICD by End of Year
    Actuall, 3DFX just released an alpha version of their DRI system (with FULL source). Check out http://www.3dfxgamers.com/view.asp?IOI D=1024.

    Watching Q3Test at 30fps in a window on a V3 is pretty impressive!

  5. Re:Problems Running the Demo with a Voodoo2 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Quake III Arena Demo Test for Linux

    With a voodoo 3, it's best to delete libMesaVoodooGL.3.3 from the q3demotest directory,
    and install these drivers from www.3dfxgamers.com

  6. Re:Problems Running the Demo with a Voodoo2 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Quake III Arena Demo Test for Linux

    Ah.. You may not be using the newest Glide drivers. If you are using a Voodoo 3 or Voodoo banshee, then

    Install this version and delete/rename libMesaVoodooGL.so.3.3 that came with quake3demotest so that quake 3 uses /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so instead

    If you are using a voodoo 2, then a)Don't expect wonderful performance and b) replace the libMesaVoodooGl.so.3.3 with one that worked for you from an earlier q3test...

  7. Re:nice, but... by jdwtiv · · Score: 1 · on Heroes III Coming to Linux

    > but the glaring lack of support for 3dfx cards
    > in the version of xfree that shipped with
    > my Red Hat 6.0 is a bit disconcerting....

    3dfx has drivers at their web site:
    Voodoo3/Banshee drivers