Turbo GL

[Alec]

Is the Turbo GL still useful?

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[Liquid Snake]

Yes, IMO. With PD6 and TGL 1.3, I get the best fps. Second is PD6 ICD. Third is PD 5.52 w/TGL. People say that TGL shouldn't be used with 6.x, but I don't have any problems with it except the missing flashlight in HL, and its much faster than PD6 ICD.

[Humus]

Use the ICD instead, the performance difference is usually not more than a fps or two at low res. TGL doesn't support many OpenGL extension either, so you may loose some visuals in some games.

[Beezer]

I thought the missing flashlight was due to the PD6 drivers, not the TurboGL. I'm pretty sure I'm now running without the TGL in HL, but still no flashlight -- which is quite annoying while trying to play "They Hunger" (lots of dark rooms and caves).

Does anyone know a work around?

[Liquid Snake]

I don't know about the GL extensions, but with TGL, I get much more than just one or two fps increase, I get like 10-15.

[Alec]

I get no performance increase in Quake 3 and I get more hardrive thrashing.

The visuals look the same to me, although I wasn´t paying much attention.

I guess that Matrox will leave TurboGL, now that they have a decent ICD.

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[John Rambo]

yes, the turbogl is still very useful, please compare it with HEAVyMETALFAKK2 on the openGL icd. The openglICD has too much visual errors and is slower then the TGL1.3.




[This message has been edited by John Rambo (edited 01 September 2000).]

[Ijon_Tichy]

I still use TurboGL 1.0 with PD 6.x. For TFC, the difference is not that significant. Except with 1.0 I can see infinately under water.

:-}

-Ijon

[Admiral]

I use TGL not as much as a speed booster but to correct the glitches the ICD gives in some games.

[cjolley]

TGL works GREAT with my favorite game: Quake1
chuck


[This message has been edited by cjolley (edited 04 September 2000).]

[Alec]

How can I manually install TurboGL, since it doesn´t detect some games?

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[Nuno]

Fácil Extrai o ficheiro mgatglp2.dll, muda o nome para opengl32.dll e pronto...