| Game Name |
Rendering |
Known Problems |
Fix |
| 2D games |
Direct Draw |
Slow 2D |
Some other 2D games may also require the Direct Draw hardware to be
disabled. As mentioned below in the subspace fix;
Install the 2.77
drivers and the latest version of Direct X. Using DirectControl
right click the icon it creates in your system tray. Now, go up
to Direct Draw. Choose DISABLE.
|
| 3D games |
Direct 3D |
Slow D3D |
The most common slowdown in a Direct 3D game is caused by mipmaps.
Disabling them is very simple.
See this picture (the Carmageddon
2 picture) to possibly help you tweak Nv3tweak for a game yourself.
If this DOES speed things up a lot, let me know the game name and any
other values you may have changed.
|
| Carmageddon |
software |
Slow gameplay, runs choppy |
This game runs slow on almost every system. DO
NOT use -highres, it will run very bad.
To reduce MAJOR hard drive thrashing from Windows 95, edit the shortcut
for Carmageddon. Right click on it, Goto Properties, click the MEMORY
tab. Under MS-DOS protected-mode (DPMI) memory type: 32768
|
| Carmageddon 2 Demo |
Direct 3D |
Slide show action (low framerates) and disco lighting |
To correct the slow speeds make sure your card is set up according
to my Riva Tweak Guide. Then go to your display
properties (right click desktop, go to properties) and choose the Riva
128 tab. Make your settings look like this picture.
To correct the 'disco lighting' install the 2.77 drivers, available
in the Riva Tweak Guide.
|
| Deathtrap Dungeon |
Direct 3D |
slow and dark |
You should set up your card's Riva 128 tab (see above) to the same
picture.
From the game's directory, run Ddconfig.exe and choose Advanced Properties.
Make sure it is set to use your Riva 128 (primary display) and check
the Disable Mipmapping box.
From the game, click the Graphics settings (the eyeballs) from options.
Play with the gamma untill it is an acceptable level.
|
| F1 Racing Sim |
Direct 3D |
slow |
You should set up your card's Riva 128 tab (see above) to the same
picture.
|
| Final Fantasy VII |
Direct 3D |
Upside-down movies, Odd graphics
errors, or game crashes. |
To fix the movie problem uninstall all CODECs
you have. This will most likely fix it. To uninstall CODECs, enter Control
Panel (Start Menu/settings/Control Panel) and choose Multimedia. Choose
the Advanced Tab. Now, click on Video Compression Codecs. You can now
click on them individually and choose Properties, followed by Remove.
If you haven't done it yet, you must install the Riva
patch for it to work correctly.
If you have weird backgrounds, go to your Riva 128 Tab in display properties
(Nv3Tweak), Change USE SQUARE TEXTURES ONLY.
For the game crashing, try FIRST setting up your
swap file as normal (as compared to fixed size). If you're using the
Yamaha MIDI try setting your sound card to NOT USE FULL DUPLEX and this
may fix it. Also make SURE you're using the nVidia 2.0 reference drivers.
You can get them from my Riva Tweak section.
|
| Forsaken |
Direct 3D |
ugly |
Make sure the resolution is
either set to 640 x 480 or 800 x 600. Enable all graphic details. This
game runs fast. |
| G-Police |
Direct 3D |
White blocks or runs REALLY
slow |
If you have an AGP card, make
sure it is set up right HERE. If you have a PCI
card change ANIMATED TEXTURES to LOW or MEDIUM. Disable ANTI ALIASING.
Also disabling CD AUDIO seems to help a lot. |
| Grand Theft Auto |
software |
Too Slow |
This game is not accelerated,
but can be sped up if you run the Windows version in 512 x 384 or 640
x 480. |
| Hexen2 |
OpenGL |
MANY |
Go HERE for my Riva setup/tweak
guide. Make sure you're using low quality sounds to avoid hard
drive thrashing.
To bring up the brightness go to the IdGamma
homepage and download the newest version. It works great with this
game.
|
| House of the Dead |
Direct 3D |
Ugly or Slow |
This game is default Software
mode I believe. Change your command line to this: thotd.exe -d3d -d3d_setup |
| Incoming |
Direct 3D |
Too dark, ugly, or slow |
Change GAMMA to about 12% for
each color, this brings up the brightness. DISABLE TRI-LINEAR FILTERING(very
important!) |
| Interstate '76 |
Direct 3D or software |
Slow gameplay or ugly |
Download the Direct 3D patch
from Activision. Disable Shadows.
Also try unchecking the USE SQUARE TEXTURES ONLY box. |
| Jedi Knight |
Direct 3D |
Unsupported video modes or poor
performance. |
In the Riva 128 tab set at least
8 MB of Direct 3D texture memory. The highest resolution with Riva 128
you can use is 960x720. The highest resolution with Riva ZX (8 MB) you
can use is 1024x768. |
| Jet Moto |
Direct 3D |
Poor image quality |
Make sure you have the 2.0 drivers or newer. This is pretty much a
must. You should set visual quality all the way up and resolution to
640x480 or 800x600. This game really runs good on Riva 128 too.
If performance is low, try disabling Mipmaps in Nv3tweak.
|
| Longbow 2 |
Direct 3D |
No Riva support |
Finally a FINAL patch game out.
Download
the patch here.
|
| MDK |
Direct 3D |
Slow gameplay |
Make sure you have the Direct
3D patch. Go to Shiny's home page.. |
| Monster Truck Madness 2 |
Direct 3D |
Slow gameplay |
Turn sound quality down and/or
music off (it's bad music anyway). Set visibility down to 60% or so. |
| Motoracer 2 |
Direct 3D |
Slow gameplay |
Go to the Nv3tweak control panel applet. (Go to Control Panel, then
Nv3tweak). If you don't have it, you can grab it over at the files
section. Enable everything. See this picture if you don't understand.
Start MotoRacer 2 in nVidia (Direct 3D) mode.
If it goes too slow, exit the game, switch your desktop to 640x480.
Restart the game. If it still runs too slow hit ALT-ENTER to switch
to an almost-full-screen window. Now it should be fast!
|
| Myth: The Fallen Lords |
software |
slowdowns |
If you bought this game you were probably stunned to find out it had
no support for Direct 3D (I know I was!).
You can't tweak it too much, but here's a couple ways that help a little
bit. First of all, to make sure you're not having too much hard drive
access read my hard drive tweak guide.
Set your display colors to 16 Bit (I noticed a slight performance increase).
Unload all other programs (I highly recommend this for all games).
|
| Quake |
OpenGL |
MANY |
Go HERE for my Riva setup/tweak
guide. This will help you get the colors right.
For more tweaking head over to 3
Finger's site.
|
| Quake2 |
OpenGL |
MANY |
Go HERE
for my Riva setup/tweak guide. To fight excess HARD DISK reading try my
HARD DRIVE TWEAK GUIDE. You can also make your
own autoexec to completely optimize the game HERE. |
| Redline Racer |
Direct 3D |
slow |
You should set up your card's Riva 128 tab (see above) to the same
picture. |
| SiN |
OpenGL |
MANY |
Go HERE
for my Riva setup/tweak guide. To fight excess HARD DISK reading try my
HARD DRIVE TWEAK GUIDE. You can also make your
own autoexec to completely optimize the game HERE.
The most common problem people had with OpenGL with SiN that emailed me
was they were not in 16 Bit color depth. Make certain that you are in
16 Bit color mode when running OpenGL with Riva 128 cards. |
| Streets of Sim City |
software |
SLOW and UGLY as it gets |
This game only supports Glide, which even on my Voodoo2 runs bad. This
game is beyond tweaking. In fact, it's a crappy game anyway.
The only way to improve speed is to lower image quality. Since this
game already has very poor image quality it will look even worse! You're
better off just buying a new game. =)
|
| Subspace |
software
(direct draw)
|
slow gameplay |
Install the 2.77
drivers and the latest version of Direct X. Using DirectControl
right click the icon it creates in your system tray. Now, go up
to Direct Draw. Choose DISABLE. Start the game and it should be
much better. To see framerates, hit
ESC then F.
Mine jumped from a jerky 15 fps WAY up to 95
fps.
|
| Tomb Raider 2 |
Direct 3D |
VERY slow gameplay, runs choppy,
severe cracking |
Try setting MIP-MAPPING levels
to 0 in Nv3Tweak. Make sure the CD is in the drive. From the Tomb2 directory
at the command prompt type "TOMB2.EXE -SETUP" (no quotes) to setup. |
| Turok |
Direct 3D |
Will not run, or is ugly |
Disable USE SQUARE TEXTURES
ONLY. Make sure you have Direct X 5 or higher installed. Set up the graphic
options in the menu of the game, enable everything. Resolution at 640
x 480 or 800 x 600. |
| Twisted Metal 2 |
Direct 3D |
Poor image quality |
This game tweaks the exact same as Jet Moto;
Make sure you have the 2.0 drivers or newer. This is pretty much a
must. You should set visual quality all the way up and resolution to
640x480 or 800x600. This game really runs good on Riva 128 too.
If performance is low, try disabling Mipmaps in Nv3tweak.
|
| Unreal |
OpenGL or
Direct 3D
|
Runs VERY choppy |
Install Direct X6.
Use Direct 3D mode.
Tweak your computer out like hell!
Disable any extra features in the game you need to in order to
increase framerates.
|
| Virtua Cop 2 |
Direct 3D |
Slow or Choppy |
Check to see if you're in Direct
3D mode. Hit ALT, then goto DEVICES, then you should see Direct 3D
(Primary Display) or something similar. |
| Worms 2 |
software
(direct draw)
|
Problems with Direct Draw; slowdowns |
This game tweaks the same as Subspace.
Install the 2.77 drivers
and the latest version of Direct X. Using DirectControl
right click the icon it creates in your system tray. Now, go up
to Direct Draw. Choose DISABLE. Start the game and it should be
run normal.
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