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S3 Virge and GP2

Jaco V

S3 Virge and GP2

by Jaco V » Wed, 09 Jul 1997 04:00:00

Hi all,

I'm having problems with my new PC. It's a Digital, with a Pentium
166MMX, and has a S3 Virge/GX video card. One of the first things I
tried was, ofcourse, GP2. But,...it didn't work. At the point that the
game switches to hi-res video mode on startup, e.g. the welcome
screen, my screen goes black! I booted to DOS, so no win95 problem I
think, though I have win95B installed, with FAT32 enabled.

Anyone have a clue, or better, a solution to this problem ?

Thanks for any feedback

Jaco Vis

Dave Hawn

S3 Virge and GP2

by Dave Hawn » Thu, 10 Jul 1997 04:00:00


> Hi all,

> I'm having problems with my new PC. It's a Digital, with a Pentium
> 166MMX, and has a S3 Virge/GX video card. One of the first things I
> tried was, ofcourse, GP2. But,...it didn't work. At the point that the

> game switches to hi-res video mode on startup, e.g. the welcome
> screen, my screen goes black! I booted to DOS, so no win95 problem I
> think, though I have win95B installed, with FAT32 enabled.

> Anyone have a clue, or better, a solution to this problem ?

> Thanks for any feedback

> Jaco Vis


Yeah, its a ***.......

Try  starting GP2 with this startup command.......   GP2  nointro

That should do it!

Next time I see Geoff, I will ask him why it does that!

Jammer (UK)

Luke Phillip

S3 Virge and GP2

by Luke Phillip » Sat, 12 Jul 1997 04:00:00

OSR2 (win95 b)doesnt have any fat32 support. Only NT4, and mephis
(windows97). OSR2 wont install with FAT32, i have tried.



> Hi all,

> I'm having problems with my new PC. It's a Digital, with a Pentium
> 166MMX, and has a S3 Virge/GX video card. One of the first things I
> tried was, ofcourse, GP2. But,...it didn't work. At the point that the
> game switches to hi-res video mode on startup, e.g. the welcome
> screen, my screen goes black! I booted to DOS, so no win95 problem I
> think, though I have win95B installed, with FAT32 enabled.

> Anyone have a clue, or better, a solution to this problem ?

> Thanks for any feedback

> Jaco Vis


Keith Cals

S3 Virge and GP2

by Keith Cals » Sun, 13 Jul 1997 04:00:00



I don't know how to put it nicely...you are just wrong.  OSR2 most
definitely supports FAT32.  Just run OSR2's FDISK and hit Y for "large
disk support."  Make your big partitions and format the drive and
viola - FAT32!

Peter Gag

S3 Virge and GP2

by Peter Gag » Mon, 14 Jul 1997 04:00:00

Erm, are you sure about that? I understood that *all* the new win95B
(OSR2) systems are fat32 compatible?

d:~))

 **Peter**

keith powel

S3 Virge and GP2

by keith powel » Mon, 14 Jul 1997 04:00:00

i'm using osr2 WIN95 B with fat32 and don't have any problems with
gp2 incidentally i'm also using a s3 virge/gx video card.

>OSR2 (win95 b)doesnt have any fat32 support. Only NT4, and mephis
>(windows97). OSR2 wont install with FAT32, i have tried.



>> Hi all,

>> I'm having problems with my new PC. It's a Digital, with a Pentium
>> 166MMX, and has a S3 Virge/GX video card. One of the first things I
>> tried was, ofcourse, GP2. But,...it didn't work. At the point that the
>> game switches to hi-res video mode on startup, e.g. the welcome
>> screen, my screen goes black! I booted to DOS, so no win95 problem I
>> think, though I have win95B installed, with FAT32 enabled.

>> Anyone have a clue, or better, a solution to this problem ?

>> Thanks for any feedback

>> Jaco Vis


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keith

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