have you ran 3dsetup.exe

Yes of course, and another thing: In Video menu I dont have option to set up higher 32bit, than 1024x768, 16Bit is up to 2048 x 1536

same here with k6-2 500 + Voodoo 3 2000.

i remember back in 2000 i had a K6-2 500 with Aopen PA3000 32MB (TNT2 M64) and it ran just fine even in 1024 x 768...

There was a hack to setup 1024x768 resolution on V2SLI also run fine on other Voodoos to run game in Glide - try it. 😀

1.Open 3dsetup.ini and rewrite it by this:
under your card change line CARD_3dfx Voodoo 3 /M:dx /I to CARD_3dfx Voodoo 3 /M:voodoo2 /I
Run 3DSetup.exe again and choose your 3dfx voodoo card then check:

2.windows registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Electronic Arts\Need for Speed - Porsche Unleashed and it should looks like that, if not rewrite it by this:
Entries:
Group: "Glide"
Trash driver: "Voodoo2"

Works just great with my Voodoo 3 3000AGP! 😊

Is Triple Buffer checked? About the resolutions, if you have a lot available, the game is able to show only a limited number.

filipetolhuizen wrote:

Is Triple Buffer checked? About the resolutions, if you have a lot available, the game is able to show only a limited number.

Yes it is, i have tried on/off it. -nothing changed.. How can i unblock the number?

try my 3dsetup it goes higher

Its the same. My opinion is that if i wouldnt had all the resolutions available nothing changes... like on the voodoos sli

Did this patch 6 years ago but it seems it is still floating on the Internet (have somehow lost it since then).

I have also done a LOD bias patch which corrected LOD on >2 GHz machines, but since there were so many versions of the game I've distributed it only as a manual patch (how to patch bytes at a specific offset). If you need the offsets you should decipher it from here: http://glizda.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/need-f … -cpu-lod-patch/ .

IIRC there is the ACT fix (HideDisplayModes) for the same purpose.

I found this: http://www.racerplanet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17766 , itfix the resolutions, but no performance gain at all

eFatal2ty wrote:

I found this: http://www.racerplanet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17766 , itfix the resolutions, but no performance gain at all

Good, somebody did a nice package with both fixes. Unfortunately I have never experienced the performance problems so I can't help you further. I've played Porsche on a GeForce with a PIII 700 back in these days,and it worked well.

I've seen the game running on native resolution for the first time. Despite the egg shaped sun it looks great.

Gamecollector wrote:

IIRC there is the ACT fix (HideDisplayModes) for the same purpose.

you you explain that sounds usefull I would like to hide resolutions for some games

Davros wrote:

Gamecollector wrote:

IIRC there is the ACT fix (HideDisplayModes) for the same purpose.

you you explain that sounds usefull I would like to hide resolutions for some games

This will also hide all widescreen resolutions. If your screen is wide, this is not useful.

Unpack the attached file and run this command: sdbinst -q NFS5.sdb
It installs HideDisplayModes and EmulateHeap ACT fixes for porsche.exe and porsche.icd.
Sdb files are created/edited by MS Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT). So - google this program and tutorials for it.

filipetolhuizen wrote:

This will also hide all widescreen resolutions. If your screen is wide, this is not useful.

If the game needs this ACT fix - it was developed w/o widescreen support. 4:3 only.

filipetolhuizen wrote:

This will also hide all widescreen resolutions. If your screen is wide, this is not useful.

You cant choose what resolutions to hide ?

I tried in my K6-2 400 with a GeForce 256 DDR, using the same drivers, 30.82, and it's slow to, even at 640x480, using the SLI voodoos it's the same (but looks way worse)...

I can remember playing this back in the day with almost the same setup, at the time I had a slot1 pentium 2 500 instead of the K6-2.

Davros wrote:

filipetolhuizen wrote:

This will also hide all widescreen resolutions. If your screen is wide, this is not useful.

You cant choose what resolutions to hide ?

No, it automatically hides all 16:9 and 16:10 modes. According to ACT, it's the default Win9x behaviour.