NFS High stakes, Unreal & halflife probs

[Xeno]

Unreal (v225f) (especially the Mission pack 1) and Half life both seem to have Z-buffer problems on my G400DH. Some textures are fighting to be in front of eachother. Need for speed High stakes also seems to have some problems: some textures appear in strange colors (the sky) and the loading-screens appear to exist out of small pieces of textures. In some games pixels appear at the edges of textures. Does anyone have the same problems? Or more important: does anyone know how to fix these problems? (Could a G400 bios update help??)

Any help is greatly appreciated.

I am using:

Athlon 500
MSI 6167 mobo, AWARD bios v1.2
128 MB SDRAM
20GB Maxtor DiamondMax+ 7200rpm UDMA-66
G400 DH 32MB (using v5.30 drivers and DX7)
SB Live! Value
NCR810 SCSI controller
Plextor PX-40TSi 40x CDROM drive (SCSI, ID:0)
Jaz drive 1GB (SCSI, ID:3)

[Bohrn]

Those games all work fine for me. Well NFS4 is a bit slow as it is a "GLide at heart" game and it's d3d is not too cool. But everything else is nice. I have heard of some K7 people having trouble with these early Athlon motherboards tho, so that might be it. How clean are your OS install,drivers and Dx7? Sometimes these screw up. Hope ya get it sorted, dude(ette?)

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[Daniel Fazekas]

Unreal, that's normal. Unreal is way too buggy and doesn't work well no matter what card you have. Unreal is only somewhat enjoyable on the 3dfx cards using Glide, but even then there are quite a few graphical glitches.
Well, why bother? Epic got their act toghether and Unreal Tournament has solid D3D support which runs very well on the G400.

In Half-Life, that's also normal to encounter some texture fighting RARELY (contrary to OFTEN in Unreal), usually in the distance. In HL, this also happens on all the cards, including 3dfx. It is probably due to some limitation of the Quake 1 engine, as I only saw this problem with Q1 and HL.

NFSHS, on the other hand, should be pretty much perfect.

As far as I know, there isn't a newer BIOS yet for the G400s. The shipping version is the latest.

[Xeno]

Thanx for the help guys.

I guess I'll ask my retailer if they can check if the mobo could be a problem. I still got some USB and shutdown probs too, so I was planning to return the system to them anyway.
Bohrn: do you know those people with a K7? If so, could you ask them if they had any problems running Photoshop 5.5 and Turbo pascal 7.0 programs?