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Re: Problem with Video Display (Canopus Pure 3D and S3 Trio 3D)

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From: btjin
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 00:00
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For Total Annihilation: Kingdoms, I get flickering only when I use the
D3D renderer and no problems at all when using Glide.  Of course, I 
haven't tried this on my Canopus Pure 3D but on my other system with 
my V3 3K.  The system with the Pure3D is too slow for TAK (P166MMX).
 
Burton Tjin.


On Sun, 27 Jun 1999 03:25:38, "Bernard Lineham" 
<blineham@wantree.com.au> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have recently purchased an ABIT BH6 mainboard.  Since then I am noticing
> the following problems with my Canopus Pure 3D 3D accelerator.  This card is
> a PCI card based on the 3dfx Voodoo Graphics chipset.   Within the game
> Total Annihilation: Kingdoms  I get a random flickering when I try to run
> the game using the Direct 3D renderer.  It looks although other textures
> from the game are being corrupted and flashed to the screen at random.  I
> have a similar problem on the level loading screen for Heretic II, Half-Life
> and the demo of Kingpin (all of which are based in the Quake/Quake2 engine).
> I have a Celeron 333 procesor and an A-Bit BH6 motherboard with the latest
> (LH) BIOS update.  I have had no problems with my 3D accelerator prior to
> upgrading my motherboard.  Please help me to resolve this problem.  I have
> also noticed a problem with a corrupt screen on my 2D S3 Trio 3D AGP 4 MB
> video card.  It randomly displays snow or pixel corruption (more often
> during animations) and this problem can only be temporarily resolved by
> restarting the computer. Please help me to resolve this problem.
> 
> My system is:
> 
> Intel Celeron 333 MHz
> S3 Trio 3D AGP 4 MB
> Canopus Pure 3D (3dfx Voodoo Graphics based PCI 3D accelerator with 6 MB EDO
> RAM)
> 64 MB SDRAM (2 32 MB DIMMs)
> Creative Labs Vibra 16 (ISA Sound Card, OEM version of SB16)
> PNP Ethernet Card (ISA)
> 1.44 MB Floppy Drive
> 24X Pioneer CD-ROM
> External 33.6 Modem
> 
> My last upgrade that created the problem was the motherboard, case,
> processor and AGP 2D video card.
> 
> 
> Bernard Lineham
> 
> 
> 
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Subject: Re: Problem with Video Display (Canopus Pure 3D and S3 Trio 3D)
Date: 1999/06/29
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