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Get the latest drivers from Orchid's website, not the 3Dfx reference
drivers. You might also want to upgrade to DirectX 6.0.

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Paul Hignett wrote in message <3669B227.74067D11@home.today>...
>I've recently purchased an Orchid Righteous 3dfx card (voodoo1)
>which included Mechwarrior 2 (3dfx edition) amongst bundled
>software. The problem is I cannot get the game to run. I can access
>the 2D option screens but as soon as I try to launch into a game
>the screen just blinks and reloads the option screen.
>
>I don't have any problems running other accelerated games like
>GL Quake or Quake 2 and I get the usual 3dfx card "click" sound
>when launching a game, but I don't get that sound starting MW2.
>I'm using the latest glide 3dfx reference drivers (2.46) although
>the card came with Righteous drivers (2.43). Could this be the
>problem just with this game? Any help appreciated.
>
>Paul
>
>BTW, my system is:
>P233 MMX
>64 Mb SD Ram
>2Mb S3 Trio64V2
>4Mb Orchid Righteous 3dfx
>Glide 2.46 <3dfx drivers> (card came with 2.43 Righteous drivers)
>Direct X5

I bought my card more than a year ago, but I assume that you have the same
version of mechwarrior as I have. That perticular version requires the old
glide 1 driver, so you have to install the old driver package that came with
your card and then you can play that game. As I recall it, it was ok to
overwrite with new drivers as the old glide library isn't included in the
new driver package. It just stays behind and enables you to play old
glide-games incompatible with newer glide.

Rasmus

Paul Hignett skrev i meddelandet <3669B227.74067D11@home.today>...
>I've recently purchased an Orchid Righteous 3dfx card (voodoo1)
>which included Mechwarrior 2 (3dfx edition) amongst bundled
>software. The problem is I cannot get the game to run. I can access
>the 2D option screens but as soon as I try to launch into a game
>the screen just blinks and reloads the option screen.
>
>I don't have any problems running other accelerated games like
>GL Quake or Quake 2 and I get the usual 3dfx card "click" sound
>when launching a game, but I don't get that sound starting MW2.
>I'm using the latest glide 3dfx reference drivers (2.46) although
>the card came with Righteous drivers (2.43). Could this be the
>problem just with this game? Any help appreciated.
>
>Paul

Thanks to all for the advice on this.

I have reinstalled the latest [version 3] Orchid drivers (which 
were also the same ones that came with the card) over the 3dfx 
drivers and have now fixed the problem :) It seems that only 
Orchid drivers work with this particular game.

Paul

Hard the same problem with my system when I upgraded to Win98, the game
didn't like the Native 98 drivers and I had to switch back to the ones from
the manufacturer.  Hope this helps.


> I've recently purchased an Orchid Righteous 3dfx card (voodoo1)
> which included Mechwarrior 2 (3dfx edition) amongst bundled
> software. The problem is I cannot get the game to run. I can access
> the 2D option screens but as soon as I try to launch into a game
> the screen just blinks and reloads the option screen.
> 
> I don't have any problems running other accelerated games like
> GL Quake or Quake 2 and I get the usual 3dfx card "click" sound
> when launching a game, but I don't get that sound starting MW2.
> I'm using the latest glide 3dfx reference drivers (2.46) although
> the card came with Righteous drivers (2.43). Could this be the
> problem just with this game? Any help appreciated.

Paul Hignett <paul@home.today> wrote:

>Thanks to all for the advice on this.
>
>I have reinstalled the latest [version 3] Orchid drivers (which 
>were also the same ones that came with the card) over the 3dfx 
>drivers and have now fixed the problem :) It seems that only 
>Orchid drivers work with this particular game.

Not really true.  I have run the 3Dfx version of Mech2 on both an
Orchid R3D and R3D-II, and most recently on two Monster 3D-II's in an
SLI configuration, and have used both Orchid drivers and 3Dfx
reference drivers in the Mech2 directory to make this work (depending
on the card type that I was using at the time).

If anyone wants details on using non-Orchid drivers with Mech2-3Dfx,
let me know and I'll either post them or email them.

Cheers
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