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JSF and Windows 98 - hosed? Eidos, please fix!

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From: Sydtech
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 00:00

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Braun Tacon wrote in message <350b1dcd.826418@enews.newsguy.com>...
>Before new drivers could run JSF, albeit only in dogfight mode.
>
>Would always lock up in campaign mode 5 to 10 seconds into the game.
>
>Now crashes with a D3d error...Could not lock primary surface.
>
>Anyone else seeing this or know of a fix.


I just got JSF and installed it on my system (166mmx, 32 megs RAM, Mystique
220 and Monster 3D, and Windows 98 beta 3).  I'm getting the same "Could not
lock primary surface" error as well, and no amount of fiddling with my
display drivers (like turning down the hardware acceleration setting) has
helped.

The Eidos Interactive "support" website weasels out, saying that Windows 98
is unsupported and that users are welcome to "give it a try".  This seems
like a pretty poor position to take - granted, Windows 98 is in beta, but
many people are running it now and many more will be when it gets released.
Every other piece of 3DFX-enabled and D3D software continues to work just
fine with Windows 98 - Turok, Flying Corp Gold, Longbow 2, etc.

Anyone know of a workaround?  Anyone from Eidos reading this forum?

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Subject: JSF and Windows 98 - hosed?  Eidos, please fix!
Date: 1998/03/14
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