If you have a widescreen monitor and you don't wish to see your game's image stretched, you can select 'Preserve original' to retain the original 4:3 ratio.

'Fit to Screen' will attempt to fill your monitor with the game's picture. So, if you open your game and the framerate is crawling, you may need to come back here and select a lower resolution.Īspect Ratio: This will depend on your game and your monitor. If you're unsure of what to select, a safe way of doing this is to select 'by desktop' - this setting tells nGlide to output at whatever your desktop resolution is currently set to. The only catch is that depending on what your desktop resolution is, this can take a LOT of processing power. Just make sure you don't select a resolution your monitor doesn't support, as the drop down list will likely include several options which are unsupported by your monitor. But that's no, fun, right? By selecting a custom resolution here, you can enjoy visuals that simply could not have been imagined back in the 1990s. The default setting, 'by app,' means nGlide will just use whatever resolution you have set in the game's settings. Screen Resolution: Obviously the option that has the biggest impact on a game's appearance, and the one you will mess with the most. Inside that folder is the nGlide Configurator, where you can fine-tune how nGlide works. This page also lists whether each game is compatible with the nGlide wrapper, as well as any additional steps which need to be taken in order to play the game.Īfter the install, you should have an nGlide folder in your start menu. **Not sure if a particular game supported Glide? Check out the nGlide Compatibility List, which features a comprehensive list of Glide games. There are several different wrappers available, but for the purposes of this page, we will be taking a look at two of the most popular ones - nGlide & dgVoodoo. In other words, the wrapper makes it so you don't need to have a Voodoo card to run the game. On top of that, today's wrappers don't simply make the game playable - with a little tweaking, you can enjoy graphics quality that even the priciest PC available would not have been capable of putting out back when these games were first released. However, you don't need to dig an old Pentium 3 out of mothballs in order to play these classic titles - you simply need to make use of a glide wrapper, a neat little software program which translates the Glide 'calls' to today's Direct3D. Developed by 3dfx Interactive for their Voodoo Graphics video cards, Glide was a graphics API which was synonymous with PC gaming in the 1990s. Quake, Need for Speed, Tomb Raider, Diablo, & Monster Truck Madness 2 being just a few among the slew of hits which made use of Glide.Īs with all things, however, time marched on and the Voodoo video cards themselves went the way of the dinosaur over 15 years ago.

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