Ignorant OpenGL question + Coolbits question

[IndyJaws]

I had been having problem with framerates and overall play quality when playing Half-Life on my TNT2/Ultra. At first, I blamed it on the 21.83 drivers. I went back to 12.41 (after running Detonator Destroyer) and play seemed somewhat better, but still not the best. For the heck of it, I tried OpenGL, rather than D3D, and the game runs much better. I guess I'm just ignorant...I always just assumed that OpenGL was for Voodoo-based cards, and D3D was for nVidia cards. Should OpenGL be running so much better on my system?

Also, I had enabled the Coolbits hack to speed up my card to 175/200 with no issues (running 21.83). However, after changing back to 12.41 and rerunning Coolbits, the tab for clock adjustment is there, but when I click on the box to enable clock speed adjustment, it says it needs to reboot to check the system. No problem, but after it restarts Windows, the box is still unchecked and wants to reboot again if I check it, and so on and so on... Does Coolbits not work with 12.41?

Thanks very much in advance everyone!

 

[vss1980]

Coolbits should work with pretty much any driver version that supports it, HOWEVER official nvidia drivers downloaded from their website which are official driver releases (not a leaked set) have tended to have the clock speed hack de-activated.

The only option is to download either another set which is leaked or see if NVmax is able to do it (I think it should work on any nvidia driver, besides you get loads more tweaking options).

 

[Brian48]

If you prefer to use the official v12.41 drivers with coolbits, then copy/paste the nvcpl.dll file from another driver set in the v12.x range into your c:\windows\system directory (overwriting the existing one). This will allow you run the coolbits o/c slider as normal.

 

[oldfart]

Half-Life is based on the Quake engine and is better played in OpenGL.

 

[IndyJaws]

<< If you prefer to use the official v12.41 drivers with coolbits, then copy/paste the nvcpl.dll file from another driver set in the v12.x range into your c:\windows\system directory (overwriting the existing one). This will allow you run the coolbits o/c slider as normal. >>



Thanks for the suggestion. Any suggestion where I can either get the .dll or whole distribution?



<< Half-Life is based on the Quake engine and is better played in OpenGL. >>



That makes sense. I'd forgotten that HL was Quake-based (thought it was another engine for some reason). Thanks!

 

[BFG10K]

...I always just assumed that OpenGL was for Voodoo-based cards, and D3D was for nVidia cards.

Quite the opposite. 3dfx used to be the best for Glide and Direct3D while nVidia excelled at OpenGL. Now nVidia has superb Direct3D support too.