Many games used DirectX and had the 3dfx logo on the box. So the logo does not necessarily mean it supports glide.

Yep it's a glide game. Which means typically 98 only.
I guess you could jerry rig in the custom XP 3dfx drivers and see if you could get it going, no guarantees.

Does enabling Glide do anything special for the visuals?

I found a big box copy of Jane's Longbow II that came with Nuclear Strike as a bonus (originally sold as such, says so on the box). The copy in it is Glide ONLY. I only ever got it to work with a V1 card. My V2 and V5 just crash to desktop when I tried running it. Could just be driver issues but that's my experience anyway.

senrew wrote:

I found a big box copy of Jane's Longbow II that came with Nuclear Strike as a bonus (originally sold as such, says so on the box). The copy in it is Glide ONLY. I only ever got it to work with a V1 card. My V2 and V5 just crash to desktop when I tried running it. Could just be driver issues but that's my experience anyway.

Very odd. What OS? 98? (I'm just trying to get more information to decide which machine I even want to attempt installing this on).

It worked on the V1 on 95. The V2 and V5 were both on 98.

senrew wrote:

It worked on the V1 on 95. The V2 and V5 were both on 98.

Perhaps it is a rare statically-linked version. Use a hex-editor to search the game's main executable for the presence of strings containing the word "Glide". Use a file search to confirm the absence of Glide OVL/DLL/DRV files in the game directory.

To run Nuclear Strike in Xp (with nGlide or a real Voodoo2):
1) Ins.exe needs 2 ACT fixes: EmulateGetDiskFreeSpace and ProfilesGetFolderPath. Or you can use W98 compatibility mode.
2) Launcher.exe needs 3 ACT fixes: EmulateSlowCPU, EmulateToolHelp32 and FileInfoVersionLie.
The game is working perfectly with nGlide and a real Voodoo2 (test PC specs are in my signature).
The only trouble is - my version don't have RU support and the installer uses DE as the default language. I need to switch the Windows non-unicode language to english to install normally.

My legit 'murican (US CD with FULL US AMERICAN ENGLISH LANGUAGES!!) version copy of Nuclear Strike installs without issue on W7 x64 here. nGlide handles it almost flawlessly. - which surprised me because I couldn't get it to work on Voodoo3 without it freezing (or even be able to see the cutscenes not being a mess of lines) in the day

Glide was a "better" API when Direct3D wasn't all that mature at the time, and OpenGL didn't have many practical performance extensions developed at the time. Keyword: was. as in at the time, you know, like before DirectX 6. I am not saying Glide is the besterest API ever and that 3dfx are gods.