Agent of the BSoD wrote:Somewhat related question, since I have two STB 12MB V2s on my 98 machine: When you load up TR, do you get a 3DFX logo at all now? And are you using the Rush or 3DFX patch on it, and real mode DOS or not? Mainly asking this because I can run the game just fine, but I do not get a 3DFX splash logo at all, which I thought I was supposed to get. (and judging from your posts, you've seen it show up before but I'm not sure if you were referring to TR in specific or something else) The test files that were linked earlier worked fine for me so I thought it was odd.
And on a side note, the 3DFX patch doesn't work at all for me, even with environment variables, it just runs in software mode no matter what I do.
TR normally calls for the logo, and it pops up every time I load the game now, but the later drivers never popped it up for me. This could be because they was failing for some reason. Though, on the rare occasions when TR did load with those drivers, or when it loaded with my system majorly under-clocked, it didn't pop up either. I had actually forgotten about the logo, till it popped up with the older driver.
As for playing the game, I'm running it in DOS 6.22. If your issue is any relation to mine, you might need to use the version 3.01.00 drivers from FalconFly that finally fixed my problem. Might be different in Windows 98, I'm still in the process of setting up a re-install or I could test it. I generally plan to play pure DOS games (and Windows 3.1 games) in 6.22 and Win32/Wind98 Games in Windows 98 (dual booting.) Personally, I plan to install those version drivers in Windows 98 anyways. At least until it's proven that I need different ones. If your Win98 drivers work fine except for DOS games, since TR uses DOS mode, and the Voodoo Rush executable file looks for this file specifically, you might try copying the GLIDE2X.OVL file from the 3.01.00 drivers into your TR directory. It will look there first for the file, then search the path. Then you could use the newer files in Windows 98, and this one for TR (or whatever other DOS mode games you end up installing.)
On the same note, Shadow Warrior has never popped the logo up for me. Even with the older drivers. I never really gave it any thought 😀 I believe, that in the early days, 3DFX may have required that programmers trigger the logo as part of the licensing agreement, as most companies shy away from advertising other companies unless they are required to (even if they aren't in direct competition.) But that's just a guess, would have to do a serious comparison study to see if it's a pattern that holds or not. That's a job for someone else though, I find it interesting, but I already have plenty of projects already 🤣
p.s. The environment variables and the 3DFX exe file never worked for me either. It's one of the things I tried out when the problem first started.
