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Need for Speed & VESA Cards

Rajen Naid

Need for Speed & VESA Cards

by Rajen Naid » Fri, 22 Sep 1995 04:00:00

Hi there!

I recently obtained the NFS demo (the larger version) as  the
coverdisk from PCPower magazine.  However, it failed to run on my
machine, with an error message about failing to find a VESA driver.
Does this demo require a VESA card to run, and will the final release
also require such hardware? Is there anyway that I can bypass this on
my system?

I have a 486DX-66 with 8M RAM, and SB16 setup.

Please help.

Regards

Rajen Naidoo
Durban, South Africa
Rajen Naidoo
Occupational Health Programme
Faculty of Medicine
University of Natal
Durban, South Africa

Mike McCallist

Need for Speed & VESA Cards

by Mike McCallist » Sun, 24 Sep 1995 04:00:00


>I recently obtained the NFS demo (the larger version) as  the
>coverdisk from PCPower magazine.  However, it failed to run on my
>machine, with an error message about failing to find a VESA driver.
>Does this demo require a VESA card to run, and will the final release
>also require such hardware? Is there anyway that I can bypass this on
>my system?
>I have a 486DX-66 with 8M RAM, and SB16 setup.

I run the game on an identical setup - 486DX-66 with 8M Ram and SB16 I
have not experienced too much trouble running it through.
Mike5001

Need for Speed & VESA Cards

by Mike5001 » Tue, 26 Sep 1995 04:00:00


If not, the UNIVESA driver should work, it's included with most games now.


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