darklocket wrote:

Previously, with the 9600, I was able to use zeckensacks wrapper and NFS3 would run at higher resolutions with fogging effects.

Never use a GLide wrapper (because I have V5 5500 😁 ), but IIRC, each different wrapper is geared to a specific video chip vendor. For instance, a wrapper that works with ATI may not work with nVidia. Have you tried different wrapper?

uhhh, he's tried zeckensack and dgvoodoo as he stated above.

DosFreak wrote:

uhhh, he's tried zeckensack and dgvoodoo as he stated above.

Duh!

Well I give up, then. Isn't dgvoodoo supposed to work on 7800?

I have been able to get dgvoodoo working with the 7800GS for Need for Speed II SE. Although the sky flickers. Ive tried different settings in dgvoodoo and with the geforce drivers to get rid of it, but no luck.

My real problem is that both dgvoodoo and zeckensack do not work for Need for Speed III Hot Pursuit.

As mentioned before, dgvoodoo loads the game with sound and all, but the screen is black (monitor light is green).

Zeckensack also trys to load, but It never trys to access the cd-rom drive. It also does not make the clicky resolution change when starting the game.

read this
http://www.zeckensack.de/glide/nfsfix/index.html

🙁 already tried marks zeckensack configuration which works on ATI but not NVIDIA for NFS3 HP. Interesting how it does work for NFS II SE.

I am thinking the glide drivers that come with dgvoodoo need to have something specific changed or added to make it compatible with NFS 3 HP

new update

I got glide 3dfx mode working for NFS3 HP under windows ME using the 82.16 geforce drivers and with zeckensacks wrappper.

zeckensacks wrapper did not give me fog mode, but atleast the higher resolutions were opened up. I will try dgvoodoo next to see if I get better results.

and again Need for Speed II SE under windows ME using zeckensacks did not work. I had to use the dgvoodoo. The glide results are the same as if it was running in XP. I definately think that zeckensacks was designed for ATI cards and if NVIDIA cards work, then thats a bonus side effect.

Can't get NFS3 working on my 8800 with zeckensack's driver. I followed the guide on his site exactly, too.

I got high res with D3D though, by renaming the D3D dll file to voodoo2a.dll (or whatever that file is). In the registry I then changed the card info to 3Dfx and Voodoo2a I believe. As if it would run Glide, but it's tricked into D3D instead. Obviously no fog though.

Also managed to find a d3d7 dll for NFS3 on some NFS site out there. Installed that after a d3d6 update on the same site.

It's a real shame that it's impossible to get hi-res in selection screens with Direct3D though. This means that those screens will never be displayed when playing with a Z800 visor, so you either go through them blindly or don't play at all.

I had a similar problem with the screen staying black. I don't know exactly what I did to solve it actually, because it is working fine now with dgVoodoo. I use a GeForce 7600, but it shouldn't make a differnce.

What i did was to copy the folders FEDATA, GAMEDATA and SETUP from the CD to a folder created by myself, copy all files from the Windows 2000 Fan Patch into this folder and run the .exe as
"D:\games\Need For Speed III\NFS3 - 2000.EXE" -voodoo2
and dgVoodoo.

I used the Need for Speed Win 2000 patch from http://nfsgb.nd4spdworld.com/main.html

The above trick works on an EeePC, btw. 😀

Perfectly, in fact.

Also managed to find a d3d7 dll for NFS3 on some NFS site out there. Installed that after a d3d6 update on the same site.

dx8z.dll!!! Grab it here people!