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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?

Hi,

With regards to JSF on Win98, it has been tested to work fine on the
Release Candidate version.

Henning Rokling
Managing Director, Innerloop Studios

On Mon, 16 Mar 1998 19:47:02 +0100, henning@innerloop.no (Henning
Rokling) wrote:

>Hi,
>
>With regards to JSF on Win98, it has been tested to work fine on the
>Release Candidate version.
>
>Henning Rokling
>Managing Director, Innerloop Studios
>
>
Thanks for the info

Stocky2@aol.com wrote:
>Thank you for the number of my posts- I never counted myself.  But I will
rely
>on your counting if I ever need that number for anything (I doubt it).

I didn't count. Dejanews did.

>You refuse to accept facts and information that I have provided you several
>times and it isn't sad, just understandable. Now stop wasting my time since

You posted no facts. You posted your opinions, speculations, and
assumptions, and passed it off as fact - even though you don't even have the
Windows 98 beta and no not a thing about it!

In fact, a random sampling of many of your posts reveals that you are
involved in an unusually high number of flame wars in this forum, usually
due to the fact that you like to pass off opinion and speculation as gospel,
and refuse to acknowledge that you may not know what you're talking about.
As a matter of fact, you said it best yourself here in a thread on FA/18:

"Sorry about my post- every once in a while I have to assume something and
show
how I am wrong 100% of the time when I do.  I am still hoping 1 day that at
least 1 of my assumptions will be right before I die."  -Stock2@aol.com,
3/9/98

>This again is my final, final on this stupid subject.

Promise?

>This post does serve some value- it exposes your mentality.

Whatever. I think most people here have a pretty good handle on *yours*.