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Age of Empires and S3 Trio 3D/2X AGP

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First post, by iulianv

Posted on 2012-09-03, 07:47

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Yesterday I thought about testing my newly acquired Diamond SpeedStar A55, so I put it in a system consisting of a Lucky Tech P6VBX3 board, a Pentium II/400 CPU, 2 * 128MB of PC100 SDRAM, a Turtle Beach Montego A3DXstream sound card, a CMC Orbit 3D 12MB VooDoo2 and a 3C509B-TPO ISA NIC.

The system had been running happily with a Rage Pro Turbo AGP card, but with the SpeedStar Age of Empires would always crash within seconds of playing.

Software configuratio is Windows 98 SE with unofficial SP2.1a (from http://exuberant.ms11.net/98sesp.html) and DirectX 7.0a; two driver sets were tried for the SpeedStar (one found on treiberupdate.de and one found on driverscollection.com), both with the same result.

Is there any known issue about that game on that GPU? Does anyone happen to have a setup similar enough to test it?

Many thanks in advance.

Reply 1 of 10, by Davros

Posted on 2012-09-03, 08:26

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run it on your v2

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Reply 2 of 10, by iulianv

Posted on 2012-09-03, 09:51

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I don't think it was designed to use Glide...

Reply 3 of 10, by RacoonRider

Posted on 2012-09-03, 10:01

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I have an S3Trio 3D/2X and almost maxed out MMX, do you want me to test it for you? My S3 is PCI version, though.

Reply 4 of 10, by iulianv

Posted on 2012-09-03, 10:03

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If it's not too much trouble... was there any Trio 3D/2X for PCI?

Reply 5 of 10, by RacoonRider

Posted on 2012-09-03, 11:07

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Well, I'm holding one in my hands now. S3 were oriented at low-end market, so I guess, they HAD to make a PCI 3D/2X to get a bigger slice of the pie. i810 chipset had no AGP, most socket 7 systems had no AGP, so for people looking for an upgrade for an old PC this was a good deal.

They say, 3D part dramatically sucked, but it was cheap, so who cares?

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Reply 6 of 10, by RacoonRider

Posted on 2012-09-03, 12:00

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OK, so I installed 1.00.28 driver and Age Of Empires Gold. Runs fine, not even a minor problem.
Driver: ftp://ftp2.nix.ru/download/drivers/only_from_ … x/w9x_10028.zip
Game: NO LINKS TO "ABANDONWAREZ" thanks

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Reply 7 of 10, by Davros

Posted on 2012-09-03, 12:34

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iulianv wrote:
I don't think it was designed to use Glide...

Voodoo 2's support Direct 3d

because of raccoon this thread will be locked, nice job

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Reply 8 of 10, by Stiletto

Posted on 2012-09-03, 13:14

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Davros wrote:
because of raccoon this thread will be locked, nice job

Don't know what you're talking about... 😉

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Reply 9 of 10, by RacoonRider

Posted on 2012-09-03, 14:35

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Stiletto, OK thanks 😀 I've got to read rules before posting, not after 😀

Davros wrote:
iulianv wrote:
I don't think it was designed to use Glide...

Voodoo 2's support Direct 3d

because of raccoon this thread will be locked, nice job

AoE is not 3D anyway

Reply 10 of 10, by Stiletto

Posted on 2012-09-03, 15:05

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RacoonRider wrote:
Stiletto, OK thanks 😀 I've got to read rules before posting, not after 😀

I'll be honest: I'm not sure where it's posted. But the rules here are common sense things.
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