TurboGL?? How??

[Cyberdude]

Hi Forum visitors,

I'm very very new at this and I don't know SH*T!!!, so please help.

First what is Turbo GL??
How do I use it??
Witch games are supporting it??
What kind of API must I select?
What are the benifits??
What are the ups and downs??

Thank you,
Cyberdude


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"Let no one ignorant of mathematics, enter here."

[Vlip]

1/ TurboGL is a reduced OpenGL ICD that only has the function games requires. It's also specially optimised for our nifty little proc (3dNow/SSE).
2/Just check that you have at least powerdesk 5.3 and then install the turbogl (available at the MURC)
3/Not sure, something like: Quake (1/2/3), Half-Life,... It's written in the TurboGl readme
4/You don't have to select anything
5/Speed, Speed and more Speed
6/I don't see any downs ;-) because it just bring you more speed without taking too much in the quality department.

Try it and love it

Hope to have helped you

Vlip

[D_Chaloupov]

First off - TurboGL will not work with the drivers from the CD that comes w/the card - it need drivers (PowerDesk) v.5.30 or higher.

You DO need to set up your game to use OpenGL before using TurboGL (not the Glide, or 3DFX one).

Good luck!
P.S. anywho: even with default OpenGL
from drivers 5.41 you can get acceptable frame rates.


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Windows 98

[Kylince]

I have a question: Once my Q3(with TGL) crashed to windows(I've fixed this), the screen are very bright and almost everything is white. I adjust the desktop color management so it's normal again.
Can someone tell me why TGL changed the color settings of desktop, thanks a lot!

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[Rags]

Hi Kylince,

TGL didn't change your desktop really, what happened is that when you go into OpenGL mode, there is different D draw modes being called to your graphics card to output, so when you crashed quake, the program minimized but didn't return the calls back from OpenGL.

Rags

[Rags]

BTW, I have also had this problem with OpenGL apps in Win98 and Win2000 when my system gets overheated (My tower is in a desk enclosure and sometimes I forget to open the doors), and the way I got the desktop back to normal was to re-enter Q3 and exit properly, then my desktop would be normal. And this would happen with TGL or ICD, and have also had it happen on a GeSpot I was "testing".

Rags



[This message has been edited by Rags (edited 30 December 1999).]

[Cyberdude]

Now I have PD ver 5.41 and the new TGL driver 5,41,6,1

I just got UT (Great game!!) when I play it with openg driver (32bits), at the UT desktop I get black horisontal lines going down. but if I play UT with 16bits I don't get the lines.

When playing the game I get periodik slow downs, It's like playing directly of the harddisk without a Vid-card.

Gaming @ 70fps,bam!! stop! Gaming @ 70fsp bam!! stop!!

It just won't hold the frame rate @ 32bits and 16bits

but with d3d it works fine.

It's terrible!! not gaming @ a higher speed.

I've allready set the aperture size to 256mb.So thats (I think) is not the problem.

Thank you allready for your trouble!

Cyberdude.

Got a P3450@504
128mb 7ns ram
G400 non-max
Asus p3b-f




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"Let no one ignorant of mathematics, enter here." Plato.

[Kruzin]

Don't play UT in OGL. Did you notice when you selected OGL in the game it told you it is "experimental"?
UT = D3D