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NFS: Porsche Unleashed - Geforce FX menus - the fix I use

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First post, by pete8475

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I just got NFS: Porsche Unleashed and as mentioned on this forum there are some graphical issues with the menu on my Quadro FX3000 (essentially a Geforce FX5900).

Anyway to make a long story short the easy solution I found was to in stall the 1.0.6 r27 "modern patch" and use Glide3x as the renderer. I already had nglide 1.05 installed for other misc. glide games.

I took some amateur video with my phone to show the menus looking proper with this setup along with a few seconds of gameplay. Hopefully this is helpful and yes I realize my screen is filthy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zPoDCa9AqY

Reply 1 of 4, by DoZator

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This is quite interesting. In addition, to fix the NV3x menu issue, you can also install an earlier version of the driver (ForceWare 56.64 or lower). In this case, the game works as intended (without requiring any workarounds). Furthermore, there is an alternative "DX7Z.DLL" that also resolves this issue with later drivers. In addition, you can use a third-party "DX7Z.DLL" that uses OpenGL instead of Direct3D, which also solves the problem (and even improves performance slightly). Each method has its own advantages. It is worth considering them all together and choosing the most optimal one. The more solutions, the better, thank you!

Reply 2 of 4, by pete8475

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DoZator wrote on Yesterday, 23:14:

This is quite interesting. In addition, to fix the NV3x menu issue, you can also install an earlier version of the driver (ForceWare 56.64 or lower). In this case, the game works as intended (without requiring any workarounds). Furthermore, there is an alternative "DX7Z.DLL" that also resolves this issue with later drivers. In addition, you can use a third-party "DX7Z.DLL" that uses OpenGL instead of Direct3D, which also solves the problem (and even improves performance slightly). Each method has its own advantages. It is worth considering them all together and choosing the most optimal one. The more solutions, the better, thank you!

56.64 or lower?

56.64 is what I have installed and the text is unreadable without using the nglide workaround I posted.

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Oh, you're right, I'd somehow forgotten about this annoying font issue... Yes, as far as I remember, on GeForce FX, you also need to enable AA\AF 8x in the Direct3D settings in RivaTuner to make the menu readable again. This is not the most significant issue, as the more serious "menu problem" (which I immediately thought of) starts with the ForceWare 60.86 driver (and above).

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Reply 4 of 4, by marxveix

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DoZator wrote on Yesterday, 23:14:

In addition, you can use a third-party "DX7Z.DLL" that uses OpenGL instead of Direct3D, which also solves the problem (and even improves performance slightly).

Can yoy share this dx7z.dll? Thank you!

These that i cant download at the moment?
https://github.com/Verokster/3rash-module
https://web.archive.org/web/20180613040313/ht … er/3rash-module

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