Dawn Demo broken in 3.8 Cat's?

CherryPopper · Oct 19, 2003, 06:57 AM

Up until now i hadn't noticed any problems with the new 3.8 Catalysts but tonite i tried to fire up the old Dawn demo and to my surprize the openGL wrapper no longer seems to work. I get the error message:

" An Nvidia GeForce FX is required to run this demo... Unsupported feature..Point_Sprites"

Anybody else experiencing this also? Any way around it or is it back to the 3.7's for me?

mainman · Oct 19, 2003, 07:13 AM

Youre gonna go back to the 3.7 just for that???

CherryPopper · Oct 19, 2003, 07:27 AM

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Originally posted by mainman
Youre gonna go back to the 3.7 just for that???

Yep probably.. i can't see enough reason to keep the 3.8's. No real difference in frame rates...open GL and D3D settings take longer to get to and apperently they run a little hotter than previous drivers. All of that i could live with but i dont want to put up with broken applications.

Vengeance · Oct 19, 2003, 07:30 AM

lol

heh heh ok sorry

Go over to rage3d and some where towards the end of the big "Dawn sleeps with ATI" thread there is a file you can download.
Stick it in your "nvidia demo folder" and all will be good!

CherryPopper · Oct 19, 2003, 04:13 PM

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Originally posted by Vengeance
lol heh heh ok sorry

Go over to rage3d and some where towards the end of the big "Dawn sleeps with ATI" thread there is a file you can download.
Stick it in your "nvidia demo folder" and all will be good!

heh.... Thanx there Vengeance. That guy is still hosting the atioglxx zipped file .. stuck it in the Bin folder and she works like a charm now

Nice to have her back again

The_Neon_Cowboy · Oct 19, 2003, 10:34 PM

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Originally posted by CherryPopper
heh.... Thanx there Vengeance. That guy is still hosting the atioglxx zipped file .. stuck it in the Bin folder and she works like a charm now

Nice to have her back again

Cool, they had to change the GL Wrapper to work with cat 3.8's

Did we also grab the clothing optional patch?

CherryPopper · Oct 20, 2003, 02:15 AM

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Originally posted by The_Neon_Cowboy
Cool, they had to change the GL Wrapper to work with cat 3.8's

Did we also grab the clothing optional patch?

Yep i think i also have that around somewhere here....

Normally i run it w/o the patch applied but i dont see any reason why it should'nt work now that the older atioglxx dll is running the demo.

Oct 19, 2003, 06:57 AM	#1
CherryPopper DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Toronto Posts: 132 Rep Power: 0	Dawn Demo broken in 3.8 Cat's? Up until now i hadn't noticed any problems with the new 3.8 Catalysts but tonite i tried to fire up the old Dawn demo and to my surprize the openGL wrapper no longer seems to work. I get the error message: " An Nvidia GeForce FX is required to run this demo... Unsupported feature..Point_Sprites" Anybody else experiencing this also? Any way around it or is it back to the 3.7's for me? __________________ Dell Precision 530 Workstation w Dual Xeon Processors @ 2 GHZ each 768 Megs PC 800 Rambus Ram ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256 Meg DDRII Viewsonic VG191b Flatpanel Display Audigy 2 with 240 W THX Altec Lansing 5.1 Surround Speakers Fujitsu 36 Gig 10,000 rpm Ultra 160 SCSI HD Fujitsu 73 Gig 10,000 rpm Ultra 320 SCSI HD Windows XP Professional SP1 Build 2600

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Oct 19, 2003, 07:30 AM	#4
Vengeance DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Fort Worth TX Posts: 643 Rep Power: 0	lol heh heh ok sorry Go over to rage3d and some where towards the end of the big "Dawn sleeps with ATI" thread there is a file you can download. Stick it in your "nvidia demo folder" and all will be good! __________________ [color=red]Rage3D Super Moderator[/color] [color=red]BFG 6800 GT [/color]