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Compatibility:
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Performance and rendering quality:
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In general, MacGLide works best when used in the MacOS X Classic environment. In this case
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it can use the MacOS X OpenGL driver to render better quality images, and offers a lot more
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features (like anisotropic filtering, Full Scene Antialiasing, etc.).
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In MacOS 9, the performance is a little bit better, but the rendering quality is not as good
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as in the Classic environment.
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Compatibility:
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MacGLide has been tested with a lot of several games, and with several
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hardware configurations. Below is a list of games and how they do with MacGLide.
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Playable Games:
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Carmageddon: Works just fine. There is just a small problem with ExposŽ and
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the mouse pointer. To use the mouse, you must set the screen
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resolution to your desktop size.
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Carmageddon Splatpack: Works just fine. Set the resolution to the desktop resolution
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to get the mouse pointer working correctly.
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Carmageddon 2: Works fine except that in menus and the loading screen,
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the colors of the background images are wrong. Otherwise
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the game is fully playable.
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Descent 1 & 2: Playable, but there are issues with switching from cockpit to map
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view. The textures become corrupt after a few switches, or the screen
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behind the cockpit becomes blank (to resolve this you can just switch
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the view to rear and back)
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Descent 3 Demo: Works fine, with great graphics. But I have just the demo, and no
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twin-stick, so I just gave it a quick try.
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Deus Ex: Works fine except the sunglasses of some characters are sometimes
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white. The same goes for gun-smoke effects which are displayed
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all the time (instead just when firing a gun). Sometimes, textured
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landscape tiles show the wrong textures (or garbage).
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DS9 - The Fallen: Some objects in the intro seem to have problems with transparency.
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Otherwise the game looks great but I haven't tested it a lot.
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Falcon 4.0: Works just fine. For maximum performance at 1600x1200, choose 800x600
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in the game menu, and set Resolution=2 in the settings file.
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Futurecop LAPD: Works fine except that in version 1.02, the pause screen is corrupt.
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But you can stick with version 1.0.
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Myth The Fallen Lords: Works fine except when you override the Glide resolution in V1.3
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or below, the mouse pointer will not work correctly anymore.
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Quake 3Dfx: Works fine.
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Rune Demo: The Demo seems to work fine.
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Tomb Raider 1 (Gold): Works fine. Please note, that the In-Game menu has a black background,
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except for 640x480, where you can see the dimmed paused game.
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I believe this is actually a game feature, so don't blame me without
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screenshots made with 3dfx hardware.
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Tomb Raider 2 (Gold): Works fine even with movies enabled with Version TR2 1.03. Earlier
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versions of TR2 may not display everything as expected.
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Tomb Raider 3: Works fine.
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Unreal: Works fine.
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Games with issues:
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Diablo 2: In the video driver setup dialog, the 3dfx/Glide options is greyed out
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and can't be selected. Probably needs 3DfxGlideLib3.x to run properly
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in 3dfx mode. However, there's a MacOS X patch available.
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Driver 3dfx: The main menu screen is missing. Besides that, the game doesn't run
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in the MaxOS X classic environment (even with software rendering).
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F-18 Korea: Hardly playable. Although the textures look correct now, there are
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severe screen update problems in cockpit mode.
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Waterrace: Needs 3DfxGlideLib3.x to run properly in 3dfx mode.
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In general, MacGLide works best when used in the MacOS X Classic environment. In this case
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it can use the MacOS X OpenGL driver to render better quality images, and offers a lot more
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features (like anisotropic filtering, Full Scene Antialiasing, etc.).
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In MacOS 9, the performance is a little bit better, but the rendering quality is not as good
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as in the Classic environment.
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Tested systems on MacOS X:
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MacGLide runs on any system with an OpenGL capable graphics card.
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So far, I've tested MacGLide myself with the following cards:
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- NVidia GForce 2MX
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- NVidia 4MX
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- ATI Radeon 7500
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- ATI Radeon 9000
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- ATI Mobility Radeon 9200
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With these cards, all supported games work as described above.
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But other cards will likely work without problems, too.
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Same systems with MacOS 9.22:
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On MacOS 9, MacGLide doesn't run very well. The development of MacGLide
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is focussed on features available through the Classic environemnt.
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As a result, MacOS9 users have to live with the following inconveniences:
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- Fog is missing
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- Unreal doesn't work with mipmaps enabled.
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- In Carmageddon, textured objects loose their texture adn become white shaded.
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- The MacOS 9.22 OpenGL drivers doesn't support Antialiasing.
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- Chromakeying mght not work (probably caused by non-working alpha test).
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If you still want to play your games on MacOS 9.22, here's some problems
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I have encountered on my machines:
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NVidia GForce 2MX OpenGL 1.2.2 (MacOS 9.22):
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- In Myth, most objects in the game are drawn in the wrong colors.
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ATI Rage 128 OpenGL Engine Version 1.1.ATI-5.99 (MacOS 9.22):
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- The display in Carmageddon starts to flicker when the race starts.
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- The ATI OpenGL 1.1 driver returns 32 bit as the maximum Depth Buffer bits, causing
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display errors. To get a correct display, the maximum number of depth buffer
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bits must explicitely be set to 16 in the ini-file (DepthBufferBits=16).
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- Tomb Raider Gold has still zbuffer problems, even with the changed settings.
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- Unreal looks bad when mipmapping is enabled.
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- In Myth, the bounding rectangle of most objects in the game ise drawn with the wrong colors
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(seems to be a problem with the Alpha test not working)
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If you have a graphic card not mentioned here, please let me know your experiences.
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Regards, Jens
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