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Re: Voodoo Graphics card will not work under Win98

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From: MattLeiter
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 00:00
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so you didn't uninstall the Banshee card first?

I've reinstalled Win95 (so a nice clean installation), installed the
drivers for my Matrox Millenium card, then installed the drivers for
the Voodoo, tested the system - same problems, then installed direct X
6.1 - still the same problem.

Why have you replaced the Banshee for an older card?

In article <7tpmt1$260$1@news8.svr.pol.co.uk>,
  "pacman" <mike@thecolberts.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> I had the same problem, but under different circumstances, i has a
voodoo
> banshee and then took it out and used a voodoo 1 R3d card.
>
> I would just lock the computer on all glide games, the problem was
that the
> directx drivers were for the old banshee card .
>
> i had to do a fresh install of win98 which cured it!
>
> system is     350 AMD
>                       gigabyte GA-5X
>                        64 mb RAM
>
> maybe this will work??
>
> Greg.Lin wrote in message <37FB1565.B17CB9F4@mail.ee.ntu.edu.tw>...
> >
> >
> >MattLeiter �g�D�G
> >
> >> I've upgraded my machine from Win95 to Win98, now
> >> my Righteous 3D card will not work in Glide or Open GL modes.
> >>
> >> It would appear to work in DirectX (v6.1 installed) - Worms
Armegeddon
> >> works as expected.
> >>
> >> Whenever I try and run a game with Native support for Voodoo (v1) -
> >> therefore
> >> using the GLIDE api, I get a blank grey or black screen & then the
> >> machine
> >> hangs.
> >>
> >> When I tried Quake2 & switched into 3DFX OpenGLmode the machine
also
> >> hung.
> >>
> >> The card worked perfectly in Win95 (OSR2)
> >>
> >> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> >> Before you buy.
> >
> >Hi
> >
> >   I have the same problem,too..And if I update the driver to the
lastest
> >version,it get worse.
> >   I can't play any game....even with the DirectX mode.
> >   I ues K6-2 400,and R3D. If you find out how to solve it,please
give me
> >an e-mail.
> >
> >  Thanks..
> >
>
>


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Subject: Re: Voodoo Graphics card will not work under Win98
Date: 1999/10/11
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