Re: Papa Doc! Oh, guru of the Voodoo, grant me wisdom!

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From: Jay D. Williams III, Attorney
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 17:27

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I've got a monster 300mx A3d sound card... are you saying it's the soundcard
screwing up the Dx8.1 video???

"Strider" <not@here.invalid> wrote in message
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> "R Sparks" <acnv#sparksr@viawest.net> wrote in message
> news:3CD5B4DB.C0BC66AE@viawest.net...
> > I had that same problem and found that my sound card (TBSC) had
> compatibility
> > problems with anything above dx7.  My only options were to turn off
> hardware
> > accelleration in the Performance tab of the hub, not run those two
> particular
> > games, or go back to my Montego II.  Rather than give up the games, I
> switched
> > sound cards and will wait 'till I upgrade/downgrade? to XP to go back to
> the
> > Santa Cruz.
> >                                                Silvertip
>
>
> Yea, this really pisses me off about Voyetra. They put out really good
> drivers for XP but thay have not released new drivers for Win98 to fix
this
> problem. Last drivers for Win98 were released early 2001. I guess they
think
> no one uses Win98 anymore, which is myopic.
> I have a SC and have Win98 and XP installed. I do most/all of my gaming
> under Win98 though so just turn off hardware acceleration when I play one
of
> the games that BSOD's with it on. Luckily enough there are not too many
> games that do this but the only way I remember which ones do is after the
> BSOD.
>
>

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