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First post, by Yuuker

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Got my hands on this Skywell Magic 3D (https://i.imgur.com/lRZTTZS.jpg), but i can't tell if its acting up.
Anyone else notice their Voodoo giving them slight rainbow bands on textures?

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(You might need to zoom in to see) The middle bridge in particular displays this weird rainbow effect. It seems to stick to a lot of the textures in GL Quake.

Other games seem fine. I haven't noticed it in Tomb raider or Shadow Warrior. Outlaws i *think* displayed a bit of rainbow on the ground textures.
All games seem to be a bit yucky and washed out looking, even with the gamma set to 1.0

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You may also notice the jail bars on the outlaws shot. I'm fairly certain that's just regular Voodoo 1 video-quality behavior. Only have access to LCDs so i can't run it through a CRT.
Running the latest reference drivers from Phill's website and Direct X7. This is put in my Compaq Presario 7170 rig, with a P-100 and 64mb of ram.

Reply 1 of 1, by derSammler

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That's how Quake always looked for me on 3dfx when not changing the completely cranked up brightness the 3dfx driver uses per default. First thing I always do after installing a 3dfx card: setting brightness of it in Windows and in autoexec.bat to 1.00.

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