Deksor wrote:

I'm using the original drivers from asus (asus provides custom nvidia 43.x drivers for this card).

A likely culprit.
OpenGL tends to be rather buggy.
So the game probably only works correctly with certain versions of the drivers, and your custom drivers probably aren't among them.
I would suggest trying the latest official nVidia drivers for the card (there is usually nothing special in these 'custom drivers', aside from some additional tools, which you can generally use alongside different versions of the driver as well. Eg, I have an Asus GF2GTS from that era, which had a temperature and fan RPM sensor. The Asus utility worked fine with every NV driver I ever used, and the custom drivers that came with the card were outdated and buggy, so I just updated to the latest NV drivers).

If you can't find working drivers, then you're SOL. There's a reason why OpenGL was replaced by DirectX. This is that reason. DX generally works, OpenGL generally doesn't.

There is nothing wrong with the card anyway. The card doesn't 'know' whether it works with OpenGL, DX or whatever other API. It just renders polygons. If it works fine with DX, then the card is fine, and it's a driver problem.

I tried regular Nvidia drivers, however I didn't tried the latest for that card.

Well this is really a shame ...

Deksor wrote:

I tried regular Nvidia drivers, however I didn't tried the latest for that card.

Well this is really a shame ...

It's definitely a driver issue. Try older or newer nvidia drivers.

For now I tried the first drivers available for the geforce 256 (The 3.68 driver, the 5.32 driver and the 6.18 drivers) that you can find on PhilsComputerLab's website

I've been using the 12.90 WHQL drivers from Nvidia with my Asus V6600 GF256 card for at least a year, and it works like a charm. No problems whatsoever. I do realize your card is another model, but it could be worth a try at least.

I tried 12.41WHQL and 12.90 (I didn't found the whql version of this one) and I have still the same issues 😒

If you drop Half Life to 800x600 (if that is an option?), does it bring back the textures?

It seems you are not alone in this:

https://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards/show … ife-and-GeForce

Also have a look here:

http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=944511

Deksor wrote:

I tried 12.41WHQL and 12.90 (I didn't found the whql version of this one) and I have still the same issues 😒

try reinstalling direct x 8.1 - i had the same issue with my creative 3d blaster annihilator. It only went away with a clean windows 98 reinstall. What happened is I installed DX9c for win98 - it seems to have caused the issue. After a clean install using fw 41.09 and DX 8.1 HL worked fine.

Okay, I'll try that

I'm currently testing some hardware I'm going to sell and since I have a V6800DDR and Half-Life, I thought "Why not?".

My card exhibits the same problem when running Half-Life. But when I update it to 1.1.1.0 it runs just fine. No more missing text/textures. Just give it a go and report.
Last update for Half-Life is 1.1.1.2.

Interesting. So is this problem only related to Asus' V6800 or to all geforce 256 ?

Deksor wrote:

Interesting. So is this problem only related to Asus' V6800 or to all geforce 256 ?

Well, I have a couple from Creative. Maybe I'll give them a run.

Trashed a the last few posts.

Guys, no personal attacks please. Attack the message, not the messenger. I'm not taking sides, this goes for everyone involved.

Sorry, Phil. Apologies that you had to get involved.

All good, we all have our moments 😊

Ehm looks like the card still have a problem because the text seem to like to corrupt itself in DOS mode (oddly, not on all programs) ... maybe this is due to bad legacy VGA support ? But it seems kind of odd ...