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I have been trying to play the TOCA demo for the past several days and have
not been successful, even after spending a zillion hours with the help files
from the demo and the web page. I have email TOCA, however, I have not
gotten an answer. I was wondering if anyone had the same
problem, or if anyone had any suggestions on how to fix my problem.

When I try to run the demo, It will initiate the 3d card, in other words the
screen goes blank; however after one or two seconds it returns to the
windows95 desktop. I have downloaded all the latest drivers for both my
monster and matrox card, and they both work without any difficulty with all
my other games.

I do not know what to do next? Any suggestions?

I have the following system:

1. DELL XPS H266
2. Processor is a Pentium II 266
3. 64 RAM
4. Windows95
5. Primary Video:               Matrox Millenium graphics card (2mb)
6. 3D accelerator Card:      Monster 3D graphics card.
7. Sound Card:                   Yamaha OPL4 32 Sound Card
8. Free Disk space 400mb
9. additional hardware:         1. HP 693c printer
                                            2. HP  Scanjet 5p
                                            3. Thrustmaster ACM game card

Thanks,
Gostal

TOCA must not be picking up your 3Dfx properly. To make sure it's
using the Monster 3D card and not the Millenium, go to the front end
GAME OPTIONS, then GRAPHICS SETUP. Then set the DISPLAY DEVICE to 2.
You could also try messing around with the screen resolution and
detail settings.

Gavin

On Tue, 9 Dec 1997 18:11:20 -0500, "Gostal Arcelin, M.D."

Regards,

S. Egli

P.S. Remove "#" and "no spam" to reply

I had exactly the same problem, but it related to my Diamond Stealth card.
As soon as I installed the latest driver from diamond, the game ran
immediately.
Try getting the latest drivers for both your 2D and 3D card, it is likely
to be a similar problem.

Keith Windsor, UK

: I have been trying to play the TOCA demo for the past several days and have
: not been successful, even after spending a zillion hours with the help files
: from the demo and the web page. I have email TOCA, however, I have not
: gotten an answer. I was wondering if anyone had the same
: problem, or if anyone had any suggestions on how to fix my problem.

: When I try to run the demo, It will initiate the 3d card, in other words the
: screen goes blank; however after one or two seconds it returns to the
: windows95 desktop. I have downloaded all the latest drivers for both my
: monster and matrox card, and they both work without any difficulty with all
: my other games.

: I do not know what to do next? Any suggestions?

There are two .exe files after installation. Run the one with something
like 'setup' and an 'autoplay like' window will pop-up. First you can try
using the auto-detect option in the 3d accelerator. If it doesn't work,
you can try running with software rendering first to see if it can run.
Because using software rendering should not touch anyway on your Monster.
If it still doesn't work, there were problems and I don't have any
solution.(Because the problem maybe the your machine is too fast, directx
problem, Win95 setup problem, conflict with any existing drivers in your
system... impossible to trouble shoot) Notice that the help file mentioned
that there will be problem with Virge and P233 or faster machine. I am not
sure whether this is related.

Lastly, make sure you have DirectX5 installed properly.

If software rendering works, better check your Monster 3D drivers.
Consider a complete unload and reinstall the monster 3D drivers.

Another possible cause I can think of is that TOCA detected the existing
D3D drivers from your millenium. Since the millenium is nearly featureless
in D3D, TOCA refuse to run.

Maybe try turn to pure VGA mode for the primary video drivers so as to
disable the D3D of millenium.

Thats all I can think of.

Bernard Shum