Best settings for voodoo 3

[AdvanS13 0]

just got of gold edition 2 days ago, and played it for 6hrs straight...game rocks.

i have a amd tbird 900mhz, 256mb sdram, voodoo 3 2000 w/16mb ram (old but free), seems to work pretty good. sometimes it gets jerky like in the huge battlefield mission. the graphics arent as good as ive seen on some of your guy's screenshots...but they aren't bad either. the textures are pretty good, just wish i could get it perfect like some of the shots ive seen here.

i was wondering, if you recommend any other settings to make it perform any better?

i did some searching, didn't come up with much.

also, i can't take screenshots. its gets like vertical scanlines and multipies the image x4 or something. i tried grab clip save and still the same results.

thanks,

b. coleman

[AdvanS13 0]

also, any other vid card recommendations? looking to buy a new one...because for some reason. this card looks really really bad on ms flight simulator 2002 ...cant figure out why.

[ralphwiggum 6]

for Video cards, I suggest GeForce3 or up.

the most generic answer i can give you for your OFP video performance could be that you have settings that maybe a bit too much.

foe example, I have 750mhz with 396MB RAM and Geforce 2MX, and I don't have shadows and that multitexture thing that makes grounds look better. and it runs ok.

[DestroyerX 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (AdvanS13 @ Nov. 22 2002,08:18)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">also, i can't take screenshots. its gets like vertical scanlines and multipies the image x4 or something. i tried grab clip save and still the same results.<span id='postcolor'>

I know that problem, it's a pain in the ass with my Voodoo Banshee. By some games it works taking screenshots, by other I get, just like you said, a strange screen with funny colors and lines.

I'd suggest for setting off shadows, less textures. That sort of stuff.

I have many of those things off and it runs on my 450 mhz OK, but nothing more than that.

[AdvanS13 0]

you choose not to run shadows? i have mine turned on. with a geforce 3 or up, will it make the game run to its full potential?

also, do you think i need more ram? i want to make it run near perfect. and something that will make fs2002 run nice as well.

thanks

[AdvanS13 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (DestroyerX @ Nov. 22 2002,08:59)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (AdvanS13 @ Nov. 22 2002,08:18)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">also, i can't take screenshots. its gets like vertical scanlines and multipies the image x4 or something. i tried grab clip save and still the same results.<span id='postcolor'>

I know that problem, it's a pain in the ass with my Voodoo Banshee. By some games it works taking screenshots, by other I get, just like you said, a strange screen with funny colors and lines.

I'd suggest for setting off shadows, less textures. That sort of stuff.

I have many of those things off and it runs on my 450 mhz OK, but nothing more than that. <span id='postcolor'>

the game is playable, the voodoo3 is actually pretty damn good for how old it is.

[TheOmega 0]

Voodoos where the best damn cards ever built.

For sceenshots try HyperSnap tool.

Just curious... if u get round it will u post a pic of the black Flag in Ofp. Id like to confirm something in V3. Either here or at [http:\\ofp.info] forums can do. If u get round it PM me when u do.

Use init command:

this setFlagTexture "black.pac"

[AdvanS13 0]

what do you mean, black flag. how where?....im not dumb, but i don't know much about this game.

except i kick ass at it.

[AdvanS13 0]

woah, hypersnap works...what do you think?

http://www.calinetworks.net/nwimports/Images/ofp.jpg

-Placebo thinks good but no 100kb cigar

[DestroyerX 0]

It looks better than by me.

I tried Hypersnap but it doesn't work for me.

[AdvanS13 0]

that made it a little blurry, but i think the voodoo3 does pretty good. still need a new card, for ms fs2002.

refresh this post and, it wont look as blurry. had to reupload it.

hypersnap didnt work for me, until i went to tools. then "enable special capture"...in there it lets you take glide/3dfx pics!

[DestroyerX 0]

AdvanS13, where did you see this? I don't see it under 'tools' or 'options'.   I checked some other menu's but I don't see it.

I'm using Hypersnap 5 DX Downloaded from download.com.

[DestroyerX 0]

No Matter! I searched in the Help file and followed a little tutorial. It works perfectly!

I never noticed this option, thanks m8.

[Skulleye 0]

I got Voodoo 3 2000 (temporarily), 1Ghz Athlon and 256 MB SDRAM.

I use 800x600x16, 1000m view distance, vehicle shadows, multi texturing and visual quality/stuff like that on lowest.

This works perfect and it is much smoother than the Geforce 4 128 MB I used to have. With it I had 1024x768x32, 2000m view distance, vehicle/object shadows, multi texturing and visual quality/stuff like that on medium.

Isn't this a bit strange? Shouldn't a GF4 work better than that? It got really choppy in large battlefield missions, but those work almost perfect on my V3 2000

[joltan 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Skulleye @ Nov. 22 2002,14:29)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Isn't this a bit strange? Shouldn't a GF4 work better than that? It got really choppy in large battlefield missions, but those work almost perfect on my V3 2000 <span id='postcolor'>

If you had turned down the quality as you did with the vodoo it would have been as smooth (or even smoother). The point is you used higher quality settings and the double viewdistance with the GF4. And I think the viewdistance setting causes a lot of additional CPU load if increased. Probably too much for your machine.

[TheOmega 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (AdvanS13 @ Nov. 22 2002,10:16)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">what do you mean, black flag. how where?....im not dumb, but i don't know much about this game.

except i kick ass at it.<span id='postcolor'>

Go in editor. Put a flag post object, then insert in the init:

this setFlagTexture "black.pac"

Put another one next to it while ure at it with init:

this setFlagTexture "white.pac"

Id like to confirm something, with somebody else under V3.

Take the sceenshot, post it here or at [http:\\ofp.info] forums can do. If u get round it PM me when u do.

Ah, almost forgot, do mention your OFP version u where using for the screenies...

Thx.

[Skulleye 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (joltan @ Nov. 23 2002,06:14)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">If you had turned down the quality as you did with the vodoo it would have been as smooth (or even smoother). The point is you used higher quality settings and the double viewdistance with the GF4. And I think the viewdistance setting causes a lot of additional CPU load if increased. Probably too much for your machine.<span id='postcolor'>

Thanks. It's just that I thought a GF4 would be able to handle much more than that. Didn't think much about RAM and CPU, but of course that affect the performance too

[MarcusJClifford 1]

It cannot be stressed enough how this game is SO CPU dependant, I had a KyroII card (About same performace as GF2) and upgraded to a GeForce4 4200 and it only made a little difference. That was on a PIII 850MHz.

On my new laptop with a PIV 1.7 and a GeForce4 420MX the game runs so much better. even though the graphics card has about 1/2 the power of the GF4 4200.

The only benefit of having an "overpowered" graphics card is that it can do 8x antialiasing.