I'd like to use that old splash with nGlide.

I think you need pre 1999 drivers. I didn't notice any difference with fastvoodoo anyways. I tried 3dfxspl dlls from older drivers but that didn't work. For Dos games the splash screen is perhaps in glide2x.ovl. those two 3dfxspl dlls are for Windows glide games if I'm correct.

Yeah, you can get it with old drivers, but I'd love to find a way of transplanting the old splash into the newer drivers!

EDIT: Had a play but I can't find the equivalent file in the older drivers 🙁 You can use the Quantum 3D intro though which is pretty spiffy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTuaRI1mhgg

RichB93 wrote:

Yeah, you can get it with old drivers, but I'd love to find a way of transplanting the old splash into the newer drivers!

EDIT: Had a play but I can't find the equivalent file in the older drivers 🙁 You can use the Quantum 3D intro though which is pretty spiffy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTuaRI1mhgg

You mean the 3dfxspl2 and 3dfxspl3.dll files? They should be there, try to open the old driver installation files with 7zip or winrar.
For dos games you can place the glide2x.ovl from an old driver in the game directory. Games usually (or always? I'm not sure) use the file you place in the game directory over the directory specified in your path variable (C:\dos or c:\windows\system or whatever). Because of this, you can choose which driver the game uses and thus which logo the game displays. With fast processors you can't use drivers that are too old, they don't work with faster processors than ~400 mhz.

For Windows games you indeed need to do something with the 3dfxspl files. No idea how and if it will work.

So.

3dfxspl2 is for Glide 2x games, spl3 for 3x. No surprises there. As shown, you can transplant older versions, except for the fact that older drivers had the splash screen more tightly integrated into the drivers themselves. I imagine if someone were to disassemble / reverse engineer it, it could be done.

Fun fact : The Quantum 3D 3DFX intro above (I think it may just be a generic 3DFX one!) has a standard 16/44 wave file for the audio... could tinker with that!