TO ANY 3DFX USER WHO'S PLAYING RETURN TO CASTLE WOLFENSTEIN: TRY THIS OUT!!!

[oLLie]

Do you guys use WickedGL for your other games? I hope you do! I heard it isn't free anymore, anyone confirm that?
As soon as I heard this game was using the Q3 Engine I thought of using WickedGL. It's really easy, just rename wolf.exe to quake3.exe, let the WickedGL utility install the openGL drivers for it, then rename it back! It worked for me, but I can't really compare to playing it without WickedGL since I did it the very first time i played. Post your results!

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Ollie

 

[oLLie]

Nobody wants to make a post? Not even a surly: "DURRR! We already knew that!" ?

Sorta hoping this might help someone...

Ollie

 

[kazeakuma]

I'll try it later on my pc. I have a V5500 PCI so I tend to use it only for Glide games or ones where I like to turn on FSAA.

 

[joinT]

I will try it out when my emulator rig is running. I dunno jack about 3dfx or OpenGL/WickedGL - but if someone could hook me up with info for setting up my V3 to use them for UT, etc. that'd be awesome.

Email or Chat works best now - I turned off PM's

 

[rubix]

you dont need to rename any exes, just copy the wickedgl dll to your games dir and rename it opengl32.dll

that wickedgl "installation" util is retarded cause thats all it does.

 

[joinT]

LOL - lmao, thanks for the info rubix

 

[oLLie]

LOL!!!! Seriously? Thanks for the awesome news, rubix!

Ollie

 

[oLLie]

Guys check out the readme if you are having any difficulties with WickedGL. That's where I saw this tidbit:


<<
Unreal and Unreal Tournament support
====================================
Unreal and Unreal Tournament are supported by WickedGL
but WickedGL switching utility will not let you install
WickedGL for these games. To make switching utility
recognize these 2 games open wglgames.cfg file in
WickedGL directory and add the following 2 lines:

"Unreal",unreal.exe,opengl32.dll
"Unreal Tournament",UnrealTournament.exe,opengl32.dll

Make sure you select OpenGL driver in Unreal video
options. Normally you use Glide driver with Unreal,
The benefit WickedGL provides compared to Unreal's glide
support is better texture management. If you have Unreal
engine based game that uses lots of textures or you just
use high resolutions where little memory is left for
textures, WickedGL may be faster.
>>



Ollie

 

[HJB417]

In quake3. visually, 3dfxs driver looks better than wickedgl's but metabyte really came through for us tribes2 users =). It may be like 20~40fps outside but at least it looks nice and runs pretty smooth. I think tribes2 is a great game if you love large scale/open scale battles. 1~2km maps!! I'm all for it.