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Re: Does DirectX 7 work with my older hardware?

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From: Simon Leyland
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 00:00
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I have just discovered a problem with DirectX 7 and Matrox Millennium II's.
I have been having problems editing JPEG's in Paint Shop Pro 6 and in Photo
Impact 4.0.  The same photo's are freezing Paint Shop and Photo Impact when
I try to crop them.  I looked in the Device Manager for problems, but
everything seems to be working properly, expect that in the resource list
for the Millenium II I get the following conflicts:

Memory Range FC000000 - FCFFFFFF used by:
    Intel 82443LX Pentium(r)II Processor to AGP controller
Memory Range F4800000 - F4803FFF used by:
    Intel 82443LX Pentium(r)II Processor to AGP controller
Memory Range F4000000 - F47FFFFF used by:
    Intel 82443LX Pentium(r)II Processor to AGP controller

I have manually changed these settings(so they have no conflicts) and
restarted my PC, but Windows 95 doesn't load, so I reboot in safe mode, then
disable the video card, reboot Windows 95 and then use the automatic
settings which conflict(but Windows 95 loads ok!!!).

The files that I am trying to edit are only 1/2 a meg and I have edited
larger files before.  The only thing I can think that is wrong is that
DirectX 7.0(which I installed a month ago) may not be compatable with my
video card drivers(and I have the lastest drivers from the Matrox website).

My system specs are:
Dell Pentium II, 300 MHz, 64meg RAM, 8mb Matrox Millenium II AGP graphics
card, 12mb Diamond Monster II 3D card and I'm running Windows 95 OSR 2 and
DirectX 7.

I reckon my problems will be solved if I can somehow go back to DirectX 6!!!

Simon.
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From: Simon Leyland <the_red_roman@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Does DirectX 7 work with my older hardware?
Date: 1999/12/29
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