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POD was one of the first games that were optimized for graphic cards for 3dfx. This first pertained only the Voodoo1. Later Ubisoft published patches for the Voodoo2 and also a Direct3D-Patch. However, especially the latter is not up to date anymore. On some graphic cards (e.g. the Geforce4 Ti4200) it may happen that all textures are missing.
In July 2004 with dgVoodoo 1.30 a glide wrapper appeared, which makes it possible to play POD on modern systems. Since version 1.30c not only the textures of the walls, but also of the racing cars are shown. Moreover, POD is now playable in Windows XP and Windows 98. The most recent version is dgVoodoo 1.31.
Dege, the author of dgVoodoo, has also published a patch for Pentium 4 systems. Since version 1.1 of the P4 patch a large quantity of POD Exes are supported.
Here is the method to play the retail version (full version) of POD (tested on a Celeron 1300@1675 and a Geforce4 Ti 4200. Note: You may have problems with other graphics cards!):
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Install the glide driver for the Voodoo1 in the system32 folder of Windows XP. If you play POD in Windows 98, in the system folder. With the help of the glide driver for the Voodoo1 you can install POD with 3dfx support. Hint: The glide.dll and the sst1init.dll can later be deleted.
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In Windows XP you have to click the setup.exe of the POD CD-ROM with your right mouse button and choose the compatibility mode for Windows 95 under “Properties” ! If you miss this, POD will not be installed properly in Windows XP!
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Install POD with the option “Middle installation for MMX with 3Dfx”! The middle installation needs 81 MB on your harddrive. To see all options, click first the “Change” button, and then click the “Show all” button.
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Install the 3dfx-Patch for POD! Owners of AMD-CPUs should after this install the Forcefeedback-Patch! Then create a shortcut for the podx3dfx.exe (or the wpod3dfx.exe) on the desktop. The old shortcut can be deleted. Hint: You can play POD without the shortcut, too. Simply double click the podx3dfx.exe.
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Copy all files of dgVoodoo 1.31 either in the installation folder of POD (e.g. c:\Ubisoft\POD2_0) or in the folder of Windows XP (e.g. c:\Windows). With the help of the dgVoodooSetup.exe you can configure options of dgVoodoo. You can increase the game resolution to 1024x768 or more in the menue “Glide” under “Resolution” ! Important: In Windows XP it is possible that you must click the dgVoodooSetup.exe with your right mouse button and choose the compatibility mode for Windows 95 under “Properties”!
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Reduce the colour depth of your graphics card from 32 Bit to 16 Bit! If you try to start POD in 32-Bit mode, you get the warning: “POD cannot run in Win95 8/24/32 bits graphic mode”.
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To prevent that the racing cars are too fast in POD, you should activate the vertical synchronization (vsync) of the graphic card. This is no problem with aTuner!
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If you have a Pentium 4, execute the P4-Patch!
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Start POD with the shortcut on the desktop.
Owners of the OEM-Version of POD must proceed a little bit different:
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Install the OEM-Version of POD!
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Patch POD with the pod1x2en.zip or the 10x21E.exe to the retail version!
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Install the 3dfx-Patch! Owners of AMD-CPUs should after this install the Forcefeedback-Patch! Then create a shortcut for the podx3dfx.exe on the desktop. The old shortcut can be deleted.
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Copy the files of dgVoodoo 1.31 either in the installation folder of POD or in the folder of Windows XP (see above).
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Reduce the colour of your graphics card from 32 Bit to 16 Bit!
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To prevent that the racing cars are too fast in POD, you should activate the vertical synchronization (vsync) of the graphic card.
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If you have a Pentium 4, execute the P4-Patch!
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Start POD with the shortcut on the desktop.
Now you can play POD on a current system - hopefully :-))
Important: If POD still doesn’t start, you should try the different options of the dgVoodooSetup.exe. On some systems it can be necessary, for example, to activate “Emulate W-Buffering”. Moreover, you should experiment a little with the driver options of the graphic adapter. If this does not help at all, try another driver.
It may also be necessary to change your graphics card. Following cards cause problems with dgVoodoo and POD: Geforce2 MX, Geforce4 MX and Ati 9700. The Geforce4 Ti 4200 and Geforce5 FX 5900 produce no faults.
Furthermore, the Direct3D-Patch can be worth a try. Owners of AMD systems should use the Forcefeedback-Patch for Direct3D in addition to it. In Windows XP it may be necessary to activate the compatibility mode for Windows 95, too!
On big hard drives it is possible that one can’t install POD. This is likely, if the hard drive has several partitions (c:, d:, e: etc.) and if you try to install the game in d: or e:. It may happen that the message appears that there is too little storage space. In this case you should install POD in drive c:!
POD was developed at a time, when the Pentium 233 MX was the king of the CPU creation. On current systems the game is therefore much too fast. To avoid this, there is (as mentioned before) the possibility to activate the vertical syncronization of the graphic card. But you can also slow down POD in another way: By he installation of the Game Service 2-Patches (GS2). This consists actually on two patches - the GS2-Patch and the GS2-POD-Patch. Through the latter, POD will also be patched to the last current version (2.2.9.0).
The Game Service 2 was originally intended, to play against other POD fans on the servers of Ubisoft. However, Ubisoft offers presently no more possibility, to play POD online. This is only possible for new titles like Rainbow Six 3, Far Cry, Ghost Recon or Splinter Cell. Because the two GS2-Patches make POD noticeably sluggish, you should only install them, if you really need them.
Important: If you have already installed POD on your computer and you wish to install it new, you should remove it completely before! Reason: The uninstall program of POD removes the game not absolutely. If there remains something of the old POD on the system, this can lead to a failure in the new installation! Therefore:
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Uninstall POD with the uninstall program
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Manual remove the installation folder of POD (e.g. c:\Ubisoft\POD)
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Manual remove the Ubisoft folder in the windows directory (e.g. c:\Windows\Ubisoft)
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