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N2 and Riva cards

Mikes Design

N2 and Riva cards

by Mikes Design » Wed, 11 Feb 1998 04:00:00

Hi I saw this on another server thought it might help those trying to run
N2 with Riva and having trouble. This guy Alf who answers this Q is real
helpful and works for STB. He always answers most Riva questions even if
thier not on a STB card. Cya, Mike
P.S the NG is:   comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video

WHO IS SAYING THIS?  Is this on the web or on the automated phone
support?  If it's a person, PLEASE give me a name if you have it.
This is the most farcical, preposterous and outright WRONG thing I've
heard in quite some time, if not my entire life.

There isn't even a shred of truth to it, so disregard it as the work
of complete fiction that it is.  The reason NASCAR 2 has problems is
that it requires a universal VESA driver in order to work (instead of
using the native VESA support on the card like Quake 2, Duke Nukem,
etc.) and the driver it ships with is not up to date enough to
recognize the Riva 128 chipset.  Here's the solution they SHOULD have
given you.

To run Nascar2, obtain SciTech Display Doctor from
http://www.racesimcentral.net/:8080/index.html and
http://www.racesimcentral.net/
http://www.racesimcentral.net/.  Install SciTech Display Doctor 6.0. After you
reboot, delete the univbe.drv, uvconfig.exe, and uvconfig.dat files
from your nascar2 directory.  Then copy uvconfig.dat and uvconfig.exe
from the SciTech directory into your nascar2 directory.  Then run
uvconfig.exe from your SciTech Display Doctor 6.0 directory
(example... c:\sdd60).  After it is done running and detecting the
Velocity 128 card, copy the univbe.drv to your nascar2 directory.
Then run n2.bat.  

Alf
STB Tech Support
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STB Systems Inc.
Web site: http://www.racesimcentral.net/
FTP site: ftp.stb.com
BBS: (972) 437-9615

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Sean Ormon

N2 and Riva cards

by Sean Ormon » Wed, 11 Feb 1998 04:00:00

...or you could just delete the univbe* and uv* files altogether and run
without Univbe.  I've never had the slightest problem running N2 with my STB
Velocity 128!  Every time I read these posts, I think I must be
misunderstanding the problem...  I believe I get a "Univbe not found" message
when it's loading, but it continues fine (using the built-in VESA, I assume).

Now, I do notice that the screen is slightly off-center (as if the standard
frequency for 640x480 had been altered), but I have a 19" monitor that
supports a huge range of resolutions and scan frequencies.  This makes me
think that the canned response from Sierra may have some truth in it...

Sean

Trip

N2 and Riva cards

by Trip » Wed, 11 Feb 1998 04:00:00


> To run Nascar2, obtain SciTech Display Doctor from
> http://tiger.tnstate.edu:8080/index.html and
> http://www.scitechsoft.com/ then get the Nascar 2 Patch from
> http://www.sierra.com.  Install SciTech Display Doctor 6.0. After you
> reboot, delete the univbe.drv, uvconfig.exe, and uvconfig.dat files
> from your nascar2 directory.  Then copy uvconfig.dat and uvconfig.exe
> from the SciTech directory into your nascar2 directory.  Then run
> uvconfig.exe from your SciTech Display Doctor 6.0 directory
> (example... c:\sdd60).  After it is done running and detecting the
> Velocity 128 card, copy the univbe.drv to your nascar2 directory.
> Then run n2.bat.

Or, just skip n2.bat altogether and just run nascar2.exe... no Univbe
necessary, no Scitech Display doctor necessary, it just runs. I'm using
an STB Velocity 128 here, and no problems at all in N2.

Trips

Mikes Design

N2 and Riva cards

by Mikes Design » Wed, 11 Feb 1998 04:00:00



Hi, Yes I have heard this too. Seems some have a lot of trouble where
others have none. I thought maybe it was AGP versus PCI but found some
using AGP and having no trouble at all. The only reason I posted this that
I found on another site is it seems lots still cant just run nascar2.exe
Perhaps it has something to do with total configuration of thier system.
Beats me though :-) Aloha, Mike

Brian Gann

N2 and Riva cards

by Brian Gann » Thu, 12 Feb 1998 04:00:00

On 10 Feb 1998 00:17:47 GMT, "Mikes Designs"


>Hi I saw this on another server thought it might help those trying to run
>N2 with Riva and having trouble. This guy Alf who answers this Q is real
>helpful and works for STB. He always answers most Riva questions even if
>thier not on a STB card. Cya, Mike
>P.S the NG is:   comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video

>> I think this has been briefly discussed before, but I am
>>unsure of the facts.

>>Sierra  On-line Support states that :
>> "We have found that when the Riva128 based video cards
>>switch to the vesa 2.0 mode, the card sets the refresh rate
>>to an frequency that no monitor can support."
>> This has been there standard reply to all Riva users the
>>past couple months.

>WHO IS SAYING THIS?  Is this on the web or on the automated phone
>support?  If it's a person, PLEASE give me a name if you have it.
>This is the most farcical, preposterous and outright WRONG thing I've
>heard in quite some time, if not my entire life.

>>Is this true, and can this frequency cause damage to my
>>monitor, and  finally, what is the unsupported frequency
>>that the card goes to when it switches to Vesa 2.0?

>There isn't even a shred of truth to it, so disregard it as the work
>of complete fiction that it is.  The reason NASCAR 2 has problems is
>that it requires a universal VESA driver in order to work (instead of
>using the native VESA support on the card like Quake 2, Duke Nukem,
>etc.) and the driver it ships with is not up to date enough to
>recognize the Riva 128 chipset.  Here's the solution they SHOULD have
>given you.

>To run Nascar2, obtain SciTech Display Doctor from
>http://tiger.tnstate.edu:8080/index.html and
>http://www.scitechsoft.com/ then get the Nascar 2 Patch from
>http://www.sierra.com.  Install SciTech Display Doctor 6.0. After you
>reboot, delete the univbe.drv, uvconfig.exe, and uvconfig.dat files
>from your nascar2 directory.  Then copy uvconfig.dat and uvconfig.exe
>from the SciTech directory into your nascar2 directory.  Then run
>uvconfig.exe from your SciTech Display Doctor 6.0 directory
>(example... c:\sdd60).  After it is done running and detecting the
>Velocity 128 card, copy the univbe.drv to your nascar2 directory.
>Then run n2.bat.  

>>Thanks,
>>Rob

>Alf
>STB Tech Support
>[remove the * from the address to contact me via e-mail]
>________________
>STB Systems Inc.
>Web site: http://www.stb.com/
>FTP site: ftp.stb.com
>BBS: (972) 437-9615

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