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Official 3Dfx D3D V2 Driver for Win2K released!
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FlyingPenguin
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Icon 2000-02-23 15:17:00

HardOCP got a hold of them: http://www.hardocp.com/news_images/2000/february_2000/2-22-00bv2-w2k-driver.html

Okay, here's the story.

All they do is add multimon functionality and D3D (although you don't need two monitors - at least not under Glide, maybe you do under D3D which would suck).

It doesn't install new Glide files (it uses whatever Glide files you already have installed) so there's no performance improvement that I can detect in Glide.

It does add D3D drivers, if that's important to you. Can't test that - I don't have any D3D games on my Win2K system, just Q2.

You also lose the standard V2 control panel which means no gamma or refresh settings.

Can't see the point in installing this unless you need D3D.

No instructions, and I found the only way to install them is to update the V2 driver in Device Manager, click on "Select the best driver..." in the driver wizard, browse to the the path you've extracted the driver, and select "Use another driver" and pick the one listed with the path to the new driver.


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SHS
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Icon 2000-02-23 16:25:00

For D3D this true I don't know why Kyle post them they don't work that good.
Oh & those drivers are not Official drivers there developers & very old I'am sure they got lot newer one by now but there not on the developers site.

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YuppieScum
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Icon 2000-02-23 16:54:00

The HardOCP V2 files are dated 24 September.

Further, thery don't support Glide of MiniGL.

All in all, not really worth the download.

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