hey poopsie...

***Zeratul*** · January 5th, 2001

How can we fix the voodoo 3 problem when downloading the 1.07 update?My health and mana bar are gone and I heard there was something the tell you when the spell is ready.I cannot install the 1.05 update they said :wrong system language

***ElWatto*** · January 5th, 2001

Make sure that triangle strips are disabled in the graphics menu.

***Zeratul*** · January 5th, 2001

that fix only texture problem my two bars are still gone

***poopsie*** · January 5th, 2001

I found this in an earlier post from someone with that problem (un-edited, sorry):

"Ok, so i finally got it working, and here's what i discovered:
I used the Voodoo 3500 drivers (i used 3 sets: the official 1.04.02, the beta3, and the beta4 (which came out 3 days ago)).. all to no avail. The landscapes are fine, the fogging works, and people stop losing limbs if i disable the triangles. But I still had no lifebars.

So, out of frustration, I decided to install the Voodoo 3 drivers from July (1.05.00) like the faq says to do, even though I don't have a Voodoo 3000, and I figured I'd need special drivers for my TV card features to work. Well, I extracted the drivers, ran the setup.exe in the setup9x folder, and it overwrote my display adapter drivers with Voodoo 3 ones. Now lifebars work fine, and I can re-enable triangles and not lose limbs... but I have to turn fogging off or half of everything goes skycolored.

It's strange how the drivers behave and how fogging/triangles flipflops between the driver types.

My only gripe (and it's unrelated to sacrifice): If I use anything other than the 1.04.02 Voodoo 3500 drivers (voodoo 3 1.05 drivers or any of the 3500 beta driver kits), my game of Ultima Online is green-tinted when in a window. If i go fullscreen, it looks ok, but it's f'ed in a window (which is the only way i play it!) I experienced this with DX7 and DX8. The only way I can fix that problem is to drop my graphics acceleration tab down 2 notches under performance! (or to downgrade my drivers back to 1.04.02, which worked fine for me until I decided to play Sacrifice)

Sorry that was a bit off topic, but I hope any information I have given will help you enjoy this game.. It's incredible!

Oh, with these 1.05.00 drivers, I not only miss out on fogging, but my spell effects don't seem as "lively". I swear I saw more sparkles and stuff when I was using my 3500 drivers.

Email me at spriseris@hotmail.com if you'd like to discuss this message or have any questions. I'd be happy to try and help out any fellow 3dfx owners!

My system:
Voodoo 3500TV
PII 350MHz
Asus P2B motherboard
320 megs PC100
SB Live! Value"

Then, later, from someone else:

"Well, I've been trying to get Sacrifice to work with the voodoo3500tv card, and it wasn't working. I upgraded to directx8, but the problem was in the video drivers. If I stayed with the latest RELEASE version, I couldn't seen the health/mana bars. If I went to the latest BETA version, I had the problem where your character would fall through the ground. The latter problem was supposed to be fixable by enabling geometry assist, but my 3dfx tools wouldn't allow me to mess with that for some reason.
Here's the solution: I downloaded the BETA *3* drivers from 3dfx (version 4 is the latest). I assume version 4 allowed you to enable/disable geometry assist, and version 3 always had it perhaps? Whatever it was, it worked. Now I just hope my other games still work...

Hep"

I hope this helps. Thanks for your patience.

-joby otero
shiny entertainment

***Spriseris*** · January 7th, 2001

That message I wrote about my experience with the 1.05.00 drivers working was like a month and a half ago, i'm surprised you guys haven't done any substantial testing and updated the FAQ accordingly. The 1.07.00 drivers won't work (which are the ones the FAQ refers to) on the Voodoo 3500TV.

A footnote: 3dfx was great when they made the Voodoo 2 chipset. They had their act together, and had a chance to keep Nvidia from going anywhere. Their megalomaniac tactics caused their downfall. Merging with STB and trying to monopolize the market caused them too fall like the Roman empire. Too big too fast. Now we're going to have to suffer the aftermath: The abortion that is the Voodoo 3, 4, and 5 series. We all paid top dollar for these cards way back when. My 3500TV was about $300 when i got it. 3dfx looked strong at $15 a share. I watched them drop to $8, then $6 a share. Driver releases got sloppier, tech support became non-existant, and they basically self-destructed and sold the ashes to Nvidia. We're never going to see new driver revisions, and Sacrifice will never really work properly with a 3500TV. This is 3dfx's fault, but Nvidia only bought the assets of 3dfx, not the liabilities.

I'm very depressed.

***poopsie*** · January 7th, 2001

The reason nothing on Sacrifice.net has been update is that our webmaster is on vacation. She is back this week.

Sorry for the delay. We're doing the best we can with a VERY small team of people.

Thanks for your patience.

-joby otero
shiny entertainment.