I posted this to 3dfx.discussion:
I had quite the problem getting it to run as well. Either the black
screen with sound, or blackscreen from the get go. I solved number
two. There was a message hidden in a window that said "vxd error,
expected 1.2 got 1.1" or something like that. There is only one vxd,
fxmemmap.vxd. A search turned up some 15 copies, mostly in install
files I had for trying to solve this problem...but...there was one
each in windows and windows\system. They were different versions. I
removed all the copies and put in a fresh one in windows from glide
2.43. Viola! I guess glide install puts it in one of those dirs, but
windows searchs the other path first. I have had this happen with
other windows files before. After fixing this both problems
disappeared.
Good Luck -=Don=-
>>Just finished trying to run the 3dfx TD4 demo on my machine, all that
>>happens is that I get a black screen with a few colored pixels, then
>>back to the Win95 GUI, no error message...
>>My machine:
>>Tyan Tomcat 4, P200MMX w/32M EDO
>>Intense Voodoo
>>AWE64 SB
>>Updated to DirectX 5 and latest Glide driver per TD4 readme file.
>>Any suggestions?
> Wish I did, but I get a very similar problem. I can go thru all the
>selections but when it comes time to race I can here the starter's voice,
>but only get a blank screen.
> Abit PX5
> Orchid R3D
> SB32PNP