SIS6326 AGP 4Mb & 8Mb OPEN GL SUPPORT

[flip]

My son has a SIS6326 4Mb video card in his Intel PIII550 with 64Mb RAM but cant play QuakeIII because it fails to get OPEN GL support for this card. Where can I get this OPEN GL support or driver for this card?

[bald_stef]

lots of problems not many answers..I am having the same problem with this chip glquake works albeit a bit choppy but not q3 http://www.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum2/frown.gif need a different driver or something am running a V_java driver now don't know much about it though ..just some information would be a great help . i have a pIII500 128ram and m747 motherboard
Originally posted by flip:
My son has a SIS6326 4Mb video card in his Intel PIII550 with 64Mb RAM but cant play QuakeIII because it fails to get OPEN GL support for this card. Where can I get this OPEN GL support or driver for this card?

[sollus]

I found this at the SiS website:
http://203.66.2.110/faq/faqvga.htm#Q17

Q17 Does SiS6326 support OpenGL?Where can I get the driver?

Due to the birth of the SiS6326 was almost two years ago and its
hardware design was not optimized for Open GL, we are thus
regretful to say that 6326 can only support Open GL in a limited
way by newer drivers (Ver. 1.26a and after). Make sure that you
have the newest driver for your SiS6326 based VGA card to run
any Open GL supported games. Driver can be downloaded in our
SiS web site or any other card vendors' web site.

[Juan Z. N.]

i have a SIS6326 8Mb video card with 64Mb RAM but cant play QuakeIII because it fails to get OPEN GL support for this card. Where can I get this OPEN GL driver for this card?
my e-mail is cancer666@correoweb.com

[G Clarendon]

Originally posted by Juan Z. N.:
i have a SIS6326 8Mb video card with 64Mb RAM but cant play QuakeIII because it fails to get OPEN GL support for this card. Where can I get this OPEN GL driver for this card?
my e-mail is cancer666@correoweb.com

I have experienced the same problems with the quake engine on a M747 w/SiS6326 8M AGP. The OpenGL drivers SiS provides do not work as OpenGL was new and not well supported in their hardware. The answer to this is to get Sci-Techs GLdirect. They allow a 21 day trial period which I used and it solved all the video problems for OpenGL in games using the quake engine and others (Descent3 lets you select D3D or OpenGL and both ran fine with GLdirect). The Sci-Tech GLdirect is $20, but is worthwhile as it works with many other video cards too. A small note I have come to learn about all games using the Quake engine: Audio problems cause more video glitches than you can imagine. I chased my tail for a while trying to fix what I thought were video problems, but actually were being caused by the audio settings and how they were configured. Run the game with no audio hardware acceleration and turn off the sound through the control panel right when the game starts, get your video working with lowest setting you can, THEN turn the sound on and see what happens!
Good Luck

[edo]

I used Gldirect with my SIS6326 AGP 8M to run Quake3 and it works fine only in the poorest video settings. I bought a cheap Diamon Speedstar A200 with the S3 Savage4 chip and it works fantastic. This chip is full OpenGl supported. Gldirect uses Directx to emulate OpenGl instructions and it demands a lot of CPU in this job.