3 days gibbing and fragging and only few sleeep.... but it was great! You can find some impressions of the party here:GXP LAN-Party Episode II

... but now I first need a shower! <g>

3-day LAN-Party...with 700 people Haua.... thatīll hurt :-)

Their advertising campaign which shows a generation-X type dude jumping through mid-air while holding a giant ERAZOR III over his head, proudly proclaims that it is "ABOVE ALL"; and goes on to read "Is it fast? Heh...heh...heh....". But does that laughter indicate a confident and affirmative reply to the question? Or could it mean that you may get chumped, and end up with a slow poke on your hands?

You can find the review here.

Yes indeed i had older drivers(4.11.01.0443-1.01). The new drivers (4.11.01.1151) are *significantly* faster!

I am testing it out on a wonderful new K7-600 AMD was kind enough to send us. Man this thing rocks! I'll get some meaningful timings if anyone cares. But i assure you it flies!

q3test 1.07, on the k7-600, voodoo3 3K agp graphics mode normal: (640 x 480)
q3testdemo1 1653 frames, 33.5 seconds: 49.3 fps

q3testdemo2 1528 frames, 23.9 seconds: 63.9 fps

graphics mode fast:
q3testdemo1 1653 frames, 26.8 seconds: 61.8 fps

q3testdemo2 1528 frames, 21.0 seconds: 72.7 fps

ThanX to Bluesnews

Comment: It rocks?..... hmmm. Here some results of my Pentium III 500@525Mhz

The K7 has an advantage of 75MHz but the results are a lot lower than the Pentium III results. But be carefull: It seems that the latest Voodoo3 driver pushed the Q3Test scores a lot higher! I donīt know which drivers were used by James Monroe!

veraw9x.exe   27 Jul 1999   v4.10.01.0401-0005 ELSA VICTORY Erazor, Windows 9x driver, supports Video-I/O functionality when used as secondary board (only Windows 98) with the ELSA ERAZOR II as primary graphics board - ThanX to RISA

Voodoo.net released the Tweak Util V3Tweaker. The newest version v1.9 is available here: Download V3Tweaker

Version 1.16 beta is now available. This version includes texture loading optimizations which should increase speed in a number of games, as well as chroma key fixes. Thank you for your interest and participation in the Unified beta test process.

Download: Creative Unified page

Available today, the 3dfx Velocity 100 board offers industry-leading 2D and 3D performance and is priced at $69 US list. The 8Mb, AGP 2X video card is capable of supporting resolutions of up to 2,046 by 1,536 pixels.

The 3dfx Velocity 200 features 16Mb of high-speed SGRAM memory for maximum 2D and 3D performance. Pricing and availability of the Velocity 200 board will be announced at a later date. The Velocity 200 board will also ship with innovative applications highlighting the use of 3D graphics for non-gaming and business applications. A complete version of PowerPlugs: Transitions II from CrystalGraphics will energize PowerPoint presentations with TV-style 3D transition effects. Organic Art Deluxe 2.0 is an immersive experience in creating beautiful, real-time 3D images and screensavers for the desktop. Interactive samples of these products are also available with the Velocity 100 board.

BTW rumors: There are some very wild rumors that NVIDIA will announce a reworked higher clocked version of the TNT2 (possible through better fab. output). But donīt ask me if itīs serious....

It appears there was a major crash in the Kingpin patch client, which only seems to occur with the particular binaries that were released. I believe this may be the unfortunate occurance of a MSVC 6.0 bug, which causes some builds to screw up. At any rate, the onus falls on me, for not having that particular build tested before release.

As a result of this, I have decided to open up the Kingpin beta testing to the public. With most of us on holidays (yes, that includes me) at the moment, I'm thinking the best thing to do, is to make what would usually be internal builds, available to anyone willing to help the testing process. Then, once these builds reach a state where things are running smoothly, I'll release that build as the official patch.

This way those that are experiencing major problems with the commercial release, can get access to builds that may fix their problems, or at least they can help me get their problem fixed sooner, rather than later.

You can find that stuff here. - ThanX to Voodooextreme

Download: Kingpin v1.1 (GXP) - Kingpin v1.1 (fileplanet)

(Linux) Serverpatches are available here:

• Linux Kingpin Server v1.10beta - TAR Archive.
  (note: this is just a cut down client package, so make sure you start with '+set dedicated 1' in the command line)
• Linux Kingpin v1.10beta - RPM Installation (recommended).
  (use 'rpm -i --nodeps kingpin-1.10beta_glibc-1.i386.rpm' to install with TNT/2 cards)

Falcon4: Update to version v1.07 (US): 3Dfiles Download page

Download: Windows 9x - Windows NT - PowerSprinter (Overclock Util)

X - Beyond The Frontier:
German Version: Patch v1.0 -> v1.2 - Patch v1.1 -> v1.2
Misc Versions: 3Dfiles Downloadpage

Starsiege Tribes: Patch tof version v1.6:

• Graphics engine modification to facilitate running OpenGL.
• "Elevator crash bug" fixed.
• Player can no longer change weapons at an inventory station.
• 3dFX cards will no longer run in OpenGL mode, only in Glide mode.

Download: 3Dfiles Downloadpage

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