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> No there isn't any 3dfx patch for Duke3d.
>
> Duke3d is a sprite-based engine rather than a polygon-based one, so it
> doesn't take advantage of the 3D capabilities of accelerator cards.

3D accelerators are designed primarily with the idea of working with
triangles (polygons) and possibly quads but that's in the future.  However,
3D functions can still be applied to a game like Duke Nukem 3D.  The 3dfx
patches for Blood and Shadow Warrior are not truly adding much.  If you read
the file for Shadow Warrior, it is more of a hack and an addition to the
speed of rendering the screen than anything.  Now, with glDoom, GLDoom
Legacy, 3dfx Doom Legacy, ZDoomGL, and DoomGL, the OpenGL/3dfx hardware is
used in rendering the scene and not just applying a filter at the end like
with Shadow Warrior.  So a sprite based game could take advantage of 3D
accelerators if it was programmed to do so.

A 3dfx patch will not happen until the source code for BUILD and each
specific game is released.  Go to The Blood Source to see what is being done
about this: http://www.planetblood.com/bloodsource/

Matt

Matt