S3 Virge and GP2

Hi all, I'm having problems with my new PC. It's a Digital, with a Pentium 166MMX, and has a S3 Virge/GX video card. One of the first things I tried was, ofcourse, GP2. But,...it didn't work. At the point that the game switches to hi-res video mode on startup, e.g. the welcome screen, my screen goes black! I booted to DOS, so no win95 problem I think, though I have win95B installed, with FAT32 enabled. Anyone have a clue, or better, a solution to this problem ? Thanks for any feedback Jaco Vis

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> Hi all, > I'm having problems with my new PC. It's a Digital, with a Pentium > 166MMX, and has a S3 Virge/GX video card. One of the first things I > tried was, ofcourse, GP2. But,...it didn't work. At the point that the > game switches to hi-res video mode on startup, e.g. the welcome > screen, my screen goes black! I booted to DOS, so no win95 problem I > think, though I have win95B installed, with FAT32 enabled. > Anyone have a clue, or better, a solution to this problem ? > Thanks for any feedback > Jaco Vis

Yeah, its a ***....... Try starting GP2 with this startup command....... GP2 nointro That should do it! Next time I see Geoff, I will ask him why it does that! Jammer (UK)

OSR2 (win95 b)doesnt have any fat32 support. Only NT4, and mephis (windows97). OSR2 wont install with FAT32, i have tried.

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> Hi all, > I'm having problems with my new PC. It's a Digital, with a Pentium > 166MMX, and has a S3 Virge/GX video card. One of the first things I > tried was, ofcourse, GP2. But,...it didn't work. At the point that the > game switches to hi-res video mode on startup, e.g. the welcome > screen, my screen goes black! I booted to DOS, so no win95 problem I > think, though I have win95B installed, with FAT32 enabled. > Anyone have a clue, or better, a solution to this problem ? > Thanks for any feedback > Jaco Vis

I don't know how to put it nicely...you are just wrong. OSR2 most definitely supports FAT32. Just run OSR2's FDISK and hit Y for "large disk support." Make your big partitions and format the drive and viola - FAT32!

Erm, are you sure about that? I understood that *all* the new win95B (OSR2) systems are fat32 compatible? d:~)) **Peter**

i'm using osr2 WIN95 B with fat32 and don't have any problems with gp2 incidentally i'm also using a s3 virge/gx video card.

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>OSR2 (win95 b)doesnt have any fat32 support. Only NT4, and mephis >(windows97). OSR2 wont install with FAT32, i have tried. >> Hi all, >> I'm having problems with my new PC. It's a Digital, with a Pentium >> 166MMX, and has a S3 Virge/GX video card. One of the first things I >> tried was, ofcourse, GP2. But,...it didn't work. At the point that the >> game switches to hi-res video mode on startup, e.g. the welcome >> screen, my screen goes black! I booted to DOS, so no win95 problem I >> think, though I have win95B installed, with FAT32 enabled. >> Anyone have a clue, or better, a solution to this problem ? >> Thanks for any feedback >> Jaco Vis

-- keith