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Article #1488Re: SiS 6326 wont do openGL!!
From: shep..........................
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 00:00
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I don't know the particular card but you need directx installed to get all the
functions,but you do not have to use the directX certified video and sound card
drivers and IME they aren't as good as the updated drivers from the makers
sites.Click here for info
http://www.karoo.co.uk/d-sheppard/directx.htm Directx
and you may want to check the correct installation of the drivers using
safemode.See below.
General drivers installations/Safemode.
TIP:Install TweakUI and set a 5 sec delay in it's boot tab to show the dos
startup menu,then you don't have to keep pressing F keys on bootup.
Win95/a
Try booting into safe mode(F8 on bootup/choose safemode) and deleting all the
drivers for your sound/video/device problem and letting windows re-install
them(If needed make sure you have a disc with the drivers on or you know
win95 has some generic drivers in the Add New Hardware for the device)
Soft re-boot by holding down the shift key and restarting windows.
If it doe s'nt detect them then re-install manually from the Add New Hardware
option but choose NOT to let windows search as it takes too long and you
know what you want to install,plus plug in and play doe s'nt always detect
correctly and only"Safemode"shows duplicate/bogus/old drivers installe
d.I've found three versions of my floppy driver in Safemode
that didn't show up in normal win95!
Win95b/cWin98
The device manager options have changed slightly in win95b so if you want to
revert to an older driver for a device because you suspect a damaged driver you
may have to install the driver using the Add/New Hardware option in the
control panel/no windows search and then go back to the Device mana
ger and take the"Choose from list"option and pick one of the older or different
drivers,otherwise device manager won't let you change the driver as it thinks
you have the newest driver installed in it update option.AFAIK.
You may also find duplicate/bogus drivers installed under the"Other"option in
device manager(the question mark)which can also stop your drivers from being
installed properly.
This is especially true after a"Clean"re-install on my system.
Win98 has a System File Checker,which can help but read here on this
excellent page from James Liles for more info on it's use.
http://www.ac.net/~lilesj/win98-18.html#win98-18
Also check in the autoexec.bat/config.sys files to see if you have any
bogus/duplicate lines installing dos drivers that you may not need.If you need
these for MSdos you can transfer the lines from the autoexec.bat to the
dosstart.bat and they will then only be loaded in Msdos.If you need your C
drom drivers in pure dos IMHO its best to make a good startup/boot disc with
them on.Help files at my site for this.
*******************************
Once finished.
Use the free WRP backup program at my site to make a copy of the registry
first(only works on single profile machines)or use Regedit to copy it by
exporting if you have a pre-win98 version of Windows. Try Regclean 4.1a.
Links at my site below plus free help files for this and other Win95/98 related
problems.
If still stuck then just e-mail below.
HTH*<:)
> on the box it said opengl i think :(
> anyway, its better than the old s3 virge.. not for me anyway
>
> so anybody else got any ideas?
>
> rob
>
>
>
>
> Pandamoniam <panda@what_the_fuck.com.au> wrote in message
> news:37285194@grissom.powerup.com.au...
> > I got my girlfriend a cheap computer through sunlit, it had that video
> card
> > on the m/b, it is really not a good card. It will only do d3d, and no
> > openGL. It really also depends on the game you play. Halflife will
> support
> > d3d, but the quality is quite poor. Besides this, i really dont think
> that
> > card will perform well in gaming. My suggestion is to save up for at
> lease
> > a banshee, but the tnt's are almost the same price now anyway.
> >
> > --
> > Have Fun!!!
> >
> > Brad Jones
> >
> > Rob <nolde@wantree.com.au> wrote in message
> > news:7g9hrq$ucm$1@centipede.wantree.com.au...
> > > i just bought a cheap aopen pPA50 8mb agp card
> > > it uses the SiS 6326 chipset and is suposed to support openGL
> > > but im having trouble with it.. my games say the card doesnt support
> > openGL
> > >
> > > ive tried the latest drivers,, no help.
> > >
> > > any ideas?
> > > thanks
> > > rob
> > >
> > > --
> > > please Via email to
> > > nolde@wantree.com.au
> > > ICQ : 33087445
> > > i do check the newsgroup, but not as often as email
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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