Baboon2

I hate to say this, but from my experience on the driver teams at ATI & 3dfx, the people with the worst problems with 3D games were those that had upgraded Power Computing machines. Other clones, too, had horrible problems. Part of the problem is that the QA teams at those companies (and Nvidia, too, I bet) don't ever test with upgraded clones. -- Ray

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You can get the latest RAVE driver (v1.13b6) at http://homepage.mac.com/rayswartz/sites/files/3dfx%20Rave.sit I think you'll see some improvements in CM with a V3.

It's Nvidia's fault because they didn't hire me to be their RAVE guy. -- Ray

Well, I'll be damned. OTOH, when transparencies go solid, that can be an indication that you are running in software.

I'd be very surprised if the RAVE driver for the Voodoo 2 is good enough to run CM. -- Ray

Does the smoke look transparent? If so, then you are accelerated. Also, if thin font characters, like "i" look kinda funny, then you are accelerated. CM works much better on the Voodoo 5 than on the Voodoo 3, but the latest drivers are playable with the V3. Fullscreen antialiasing on the V5 looks great in CM. -- Ray

Maximus, AFAIK, there are no lockups on Macs using Voodoo cards. So, maybe your negativity is misplaced. -- Ray

The ATI Mac 3D engineer is better than any of the ATI PC engineers.

Well, neither Nvidia nor Apple has hired me, but I hear that Nvidia does indeed have a RAVE driver. I don't know who wrote it nor do I know how well it performs. I'm curious. -- Ray

The reason the control strip doesn't show is that the Voodoo drivers put CM into fullscreen mode for best performance. Fullscreen mode doesn't permit 2D overlays of the draw context.

Baboon here. The bug with the ESC key causing scrambled textures was fixed a long time ago. You need the latest drivers, 1.1.3b. And I've got a RAVE driver I can give you that's even better than what's in 1.1.3. You can look forward to CM running quite well on a Voodoo 4.

The Voodoo 4 runs CM very well and provides 2x FSAA. The Voodoo 5 provides 4x FSAA. Obviously, at this point I don't care which card you buy, but I do want to say that CM is one game that really benefits from FSAA. I understand that the Radeon drivers will eventually provide it. (I'm the former RAVE guy at 3dfx.)

You could put your Voodoo 5 in a Mac. This bug was fixed in the Mac drivers.

Rich, have you tried the Napalm drivers (1.1.2 or 1.1.3b)? Don't reflash your ROM -- it's OK.