Valley of Ra

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Binary Bob
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Valley of Ra

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Would anybody happen to know how to make this one run under WinXP? I keep getting a missing apilib.dll error and the demo won't even start. I also set the environment variable as mentioned in the readme just in case, but to no avail.

I know nGlide can handle it as I've seen it listed here at Zeus Software, screenshot and all. This website, however, states the following about the demo: "Voodoo5 Users must set Single Chip only Rendering"

http://www.falconfly.de/downloads/3dfxd ... eyofra.zip

Any hints?
Much appreciated.
Gamecollector
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Re: Valley of Ra

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You forgot to install Arcade Toolbox. All early 3dfx demos need it.
ASUS P4P800 SE, Pentium4 3.2E/2 GiB DDR400 (3-3-3-8), Sapphire Radeon HD3850 AGP, 2 Voodoo2 12 MB (SLI), Audigy 2 ZS.
Windows XP SP3 Pro Rus (w/o the POSReady hack), Catalyst 14.4, Voodoo2 W2k 1.02.00 drivers.
Binary Bob
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Re: Valley of Ra

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Indeed I did! Thanks a lot for the hint, works perfectly now.

One more thing; is the wireframe mode supposed to be so horribly slow on this demo? I don't think I ever used it before, so I have no memories to compare it to. It probably was, though.
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Re: Valley of Ra

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30 FPS on a real hardware (Voodoo2). Maybe the reason is V-Sync.
ASUS P4P800 SE, Pentium4 3.2E/2 GiB DDR400 (3-3-3-8), Sapphire Radeon HD3850 AGP, 2 Voodoo2 12 MB (SLI), Audigy 2 ZS.
Windows XP SP3 Pro Rus (w/o the POSReady hack), Catalyst 14.4, Voodoo2 W2k 1.02.00 drivers.
Binary Bob
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Re: Valley of Ra

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Sounds like I have a problem. I'm barely getting like 4 or 5 fps out of it in wireframe mode regardless of vsync settings, which I know are being enforced as it goes from 60 fps to something like 135 fps (normal, non-wireframe mode) when I turn it off from the display driver before running the demo.
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Re: Valley of Ra

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With nGlide?
60 FPS in the normal mode, 15 FPS in the wireframe mode (default nGlide settings).
PC specs are below.
ASUS P4P800 SE, Pentium4 3.2E/2 GiB DDR400 (3-3-3-8), Sapphire Radeon HD3850 AGP, 2 Voodoo2 12 MB (SLI), Audigy 2 ZS.
Windows XP SP3 Pro Rus (w/o the POSReady hack), Catalyst 14.4, Voodoo2 W2k 1.02.00 drivers.
Binary Bob
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Re: Valley of Ra

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Yep, nGlide, 3DFX logo loading on startup, no other wrapper ever touched this computer.

My specs: Intel G41 Express Chipset, Intel Dual-Core E5300 2.6ghz, 2048mb ram, 32bit WinXP Pro SP3, latest nGlide binaries.

This is a first for me using nGlide. I never really had it drop below the highest possible framerate allowed by the game/demo for a particular refresh rate, but since you too are getting a relatively low fps (at least below something real 3dfx hardware would be able to output, according to your own account), maybe it's just a very hardware intensive mode, maybe it's switching to software mode on the fly without telling you, I have no idea, but it's rather likely that this clunker just ain't cutting it anymore.
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