Myth TFL direct3d

[madh83]

I recently found my old copy of Myth TFL and wanted to play it again. After googling around for Myth patches I found this site and downloaded and installed the 1.5.1 beta patch for it. The only problem I had was that I use to play Myth on an old Rendition video card, but now I am using a Geforce 4 go video card and can't seem to enable 3d support. I cannot select any of the options besides software including direct3d which I thought I should be able to? Just wondering if this was normal?

[CIK]

Yes this is normal. TFL doesn't support Direct3D, we are considering adding support for OpenGL so you can play it using hardware renderering. You can also checkout OpenGlide which emulates a 3dfx card using OpenGL. FPS is very poor using OpenGL, but people have used it with TFL & Myth II with some degree of success.

[Doobie]

With today's computers, running an old game like Myth through a wrapper is no problem, assuming the wrapper works well

I had a pretty good experience using openglide, i believe the only visual quirk i ran into was the unit selction lines being a different colour or not being drawn or something.

[madh83]

ah okais, thanks for your responses and I will check out then openglide wrapper.

[iron]

Also there's the wrapper at http://www.zeckensack.de/glide/

I found it gives you much faster fps than OpenGlide when I tried it with Myth 2.

[Balor's Nephew]

Hmmm... is this thing with the wrapper a safe method? Or are there some ... unexpectable events concerning the systems integrity possible? (Wow, what a diplomatic description for a ordinar crash! )

[Doobie]

I didn't experience any crashes. Your mileage may vary.

[Balor's Nephew]

Excellent! So I'll give a try for it. Thanks!