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ICR2: Papyrus tech support says Univbe not compatible with CL 5428!?!

Jeff Vince

ICR2: Papyrus tech support says Univbe not compatible with CL 5428!?!

by Jeff Vince » Tue, 19 Mar 1996 04:00:00



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>I have a IBM PS/1 with 16 MB memory and a 486DX4/100 with a CL 5428
>SVGA chipset (1MB VRAM).  When I try to run "indycar -h" with the
>Univbe driver loaded, it looks like univbe is loading successfully and
>is recognizing the 5428 and the Papyrus screen comes up for a second
>then the game exits with this message:
>Unable to load ROL(0).  Incomplete install or not enough memory.
>The odd thing is that I have done a complete install and booted from
>floppy with a minimum of drivers loaded and I still get the error
>message.  Note, I can run 'indycar -h' without the Univbe driver but I
>was hoping to try it to get a better frame rate (its some what jerky
>with the options that I want on).  Please get back to me on this.
>Thanks,
>Will Fiveash
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>Their response was:
>Just because the UniVBE recognizes the card, doesn't mean it's compatible with
>it. This error indicates that the driver IS NOT compatible with your video
>card. You should un-install it.
>Doug, Papyrus
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>This is an unsatisfying response.  I have gotten email from others who
>have successfully run Univbe with the Cirrus Logic 5428 chip and I have
>run Univbe with other games on my system without problem.  Anyway, just
>wanted to warn anyone hoping to use Univbe with the CL 5428 that
>Papyrus doesn't guarantee that it will work and they are not interested
>in fixing this.

   An interesting thing happened to me.  I've got a Micron 486 DX2/66, 8
meg, and a Diamond Speedstar Pro VLB card (CL5428).  ICR2 and UNIVBE have
worked fine for me, although I can still only muster <15 fps with only a
few details on in SVGA. (BTW, UNIVBE didn't seem to add more than +1 fps.)

   I added two more 4 meg SIMMs (up to 16 meg) to my PC recently.  Since
then, ICR2 would not run in SVGA with UNIVBE installed.  I tried it again
at 8 & 12 meg and it worked, but 16 meg, or 4 SIMMs, or *something* is
spooking it. ;)  I've found that either disabling the frame rate buffer
or disabling VBE ver 2.0 extensions in UVCONFIG allow it to function
again, although I understand that that also loses you any advantage
UNIVBE would gain you in the first place. :(  Ah well, at least I've got
ICR2 running again.


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