My Year old Voodoo 5/5500 card died in the first days of
September. Remember those days, when nobody knew how to spell
Afghanistan?
I tried a GeForce 2 Max 64 card, but NFS-PU, which my
buddies are addicted to, wouldn't run on it. I tried
different IRQs but no luck.
I was surprised that Voodoo 5 cards could still be found
as an OEM product, which meant no pretty box or printed
literature.
So I got one and Porsche Unleashed worked as before.
This weekend I decided to take a lap at Nurburgring and
GPL froze as soon as I dropped into the cockpit. I could
run the RPM up and down, and click through the gears, but
visually it was a photograph. Keys had no effect, not even
<CTL-ALT-DEL>, so I had to hard start, with the blue screen
on Windows startup telling me it was checking for damaged
files.
I reloaded WIN98SE from tape, removed GPL and re-installed
it, with the 1.2 patch, and tried again. As soon as I dropped
into the cockpit I gave the wheel a twist, and my front wheels
had time to turn, and then everything was frozen again.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Larry
Same problem vith v3 if I run too high (1024x 768) and up.
But D3D works bether.
Try underclocking your v5, for a test
Stefan Zscharnack
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 07:46:17 +0100, "Stefan Zscharnack"
<[email hidden]> wrote:
>Same problem vith v3 if I run too high (1024x 768) and up.
>But D3D works bether.
> Try underclocking your v5, for a test
>Stefan Zscharnack
Having been forced to go to D3D from Glide due to an upgrade, I can't
see any reason to use D3D over Glide. Image quality is terrible in
D3D, I can run higher resolution but it doesn't look better, it looks
worse!
It's definitely a 3D video lockup, same as when the card crashes if
it's over clocked. As Stefan said, try underclocking it as a test.
Also, try D3D and OpenGL to see if they work at all. Also try
different drivers, etc.
Rafe Mc
