Glide wrappers

[Sideswipe001]

I was just thinking about running some older games again on my system - glide based ones. But seeing as I don't own a vodoo of any kind anymore, I was curious if someone knew a good glide wrapper to use with a Radeon 9700 Pro for example.

All the wrappers I have found are ancient. Is there anything that has been made later than, say 2000 sometime? I was also thinking about how some games (Diablo 2 and UT for example) run in D3D but were made for Glide. I wanted to try to use a Glide wrapper to run them in glide and see how it goes. Is there a wrapper that will work for that too?

 

[Schadenfroh]

try www.x-3dfx.com, more spefically their main forums. but i dont know how much help it will be. i used to go their alot till it turned into rage3d. which is what is happening here

 

[Brian48]

Originally posted by: Sideswipe001
I was just thinking about running some older games again on my system - glide based ones. But seeing as I don't own a vodoo of any kind anymore, I was curious if someone knew a good glide wrapper to use with a Radeon 9700 Pro for example.

All the wrappers I have found are ancient. Is there anything that has been made later than, say 2000 sometime? I was also thinking about how some games (Diablo 2 and UT for example) run in D3D but were made for Glide. I wanted to try to use a Glide wrapper to run them in glide and see how it goes. Is there a wrapper that will work for that too?

You can try voodoofiles.com, but I wouldn't bother if the game you're trying to play already supports D3D. A Glide wrapper is not going to allow you to run the game in Glide since your card doesn't support it. That's not what it's intended to do. A wrapper simply takes the Glide commands and converts them into D3D commands so your video card can perform the tasks. Bottomline, you're still running in D3D, only now you have the added overhead of you CPU doing the extra conversions. You should only use a wrapper if the game is Glide ONLY (ie. The original Tribes for example).