>I just bought and installed 3dfx Voodoo3 2000 card.
>
>As far as I can tell, I had no special graphics card in my
>PC at all. I think it was just doing OpenGL stuff at the
>software level. (Does that make sense? I am not a hardware
>person at all.)
>
>So, after plugging the card in, I got an error running
>my Java3D programs. Appletviewer failed.
>
>Turns out that I needed to also install Windows DirectX
>software. Fortunately, that is also on the Voodoo CD.
=> this so mean your card is set to optimize directX programs?
>So, after I installed the DirectX software, I was able to
>run my Java 3D programs.
>
>But, frankly, I see no improvement in anything. The quality of the image
>is the same and the speed is the same, as far as I can tell.
Are you sure you are using the directX version of java3d???
if not, you card is probably not used at all.And be aware that NT does NOT
support currently direct X (well, not the level j3d requires)
Hope it helps
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