3Dfx is the card of choice for computer enthusists. We have been asked by owners of our products to make prereleased and BETA drivers available on our website. The drivers in question are made available as a service to those who made this request. Before posting any drivers we do extensive testing. Further testing is required before we will release the driver to the public, through the board manufacturer. The driver in question was still in an unreleased state. While it is unfortunate that this driver may have caused problems with certain configurations, the driver is clearly marked as not released.
The drivers posted were release candidate drivers, and
*not* full release Gold Master versions. The reference drivers are
provided to users at their own risk and are unsupported. We highly
recommended that users use drivers that are provided by their board
manufacturer.
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DO NOT GET the new Banshee drivers
If you have an Abit BH6 motherboard. I have no
3D function whatsoever now and I cannot back out of
the new driver. The old Dec. 2 driver no longer
works either.
Banshee 2d hardware acceleration fails (crashes machine)
on "People's General".
The quality of the board drivers is critical to 3dfx as
an investment. I am dissapointed.
Submitted to 3dfx web site on 2/24/99
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More on my Banshee driver problems.
I have two systems, one with Wicked3D PCI Banshee
and one with Monster AGP Banshee. Yesterday,
on Monster AGP system, with new 1.02 driver,
3d functions were broken, but the Wicked3D PCI/Abit
ax5/K6 system worked fine. (win 98) Today
I upgraded the K6 to a Celeron/Abit-bh6 system
and guess what, now I have no 3d function on
either system. This problem is new with the
1.02 drivers. 2D works OK, as long as hardware
acceleration for windows is turned off (try
SSI "People's General" to make your 2D
hardware acceleration fail with hardware
acceleration set to max). I conclude that
your 1.02 drivers don't work with Abit BH6
mother boards. These attempts were not
overclocked.
Please fix this. I WILL post an evaluation
of your responses/responsiveness to the SI
TDFX investment forum.
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No driver update has been posted yet.
Joe Hoane |
