Re: Voodoo Graphics card will not work under Win98

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From: dmb197
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 00:00

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Try going back to 95? I know it's not much of a fix, but my machine runs
beautifully under 95 and under 98 nothing works - things hang, skip,
freeze and grind all over the place... and 'cos I don't use USB or
multiple monitors I figured screw 98 and stuck with 95.

Worked for me...

Cheers,

D.

MattLeiter wrote:
> 
> 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.

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Dylan Beattie             dmb197@zepler.org
Computer Science, University of Southampton
ICQ:34865704 http://www.zepler.org/~dmb197/
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