IBM Aptiva and TOCA Problem?

Hi a friend of mine is having problems running TOCA on his IBM Aptiva. All he gets is a phycadelic screen colours replacing the normal ones also the resolution looks a lower than with my monster 3D. I believe the Aptiva uses a Rage II 3d (ATI) graphics card so this is set in the opening menus and the above problem occurs. If its set to auto detect the colours are ok but the res is not very good main problem though is the frame rate 1 frame every 4 seconds or so... !! Does anyone run this game with a similar setup or use a Rage II graphics card to run the game???? Thanks.. Russ..

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> Hi a friend of mine is having problems running TOCA on his IBM Aptiva. All > he gets is a phycadelic screen colours replacing the normal ones also the > resolution looks a lower than with my monster 3D. I believe the Aptiva uses > a Rage II 3d (ATI) graphics card so this is set in the opening menus and the > above problem occurs. If its set to auto detect the colours are ok but the > res is not very good main problem though is the frame rate 1 frame every 4 > seconds or so... !! > Does anyone run this game with a similar setup or use a Rage II graphics > card to run the game???? > Thanks.. > Russ..

First off, he shouldn't expect anything close to what you see with this ATI Rage ... and sounds like he is having a driver problem. Have him check this: 1. Does he have DirectX 5.0 2. Does he have the latest ATI Direct3D drivers 3. Does everything show up OK under SYSTEM/Device Manager in Control Panel

... Since he has an Aptiva and the ATI Rage is not the stock ATI Rage but a motherboard implementation that is "close" to the Rage II, he should get his drivers from the IBM PC Co web site and not ATI: http://www.pcco.ibm.com -- IBM Microelectronics ICQ UIN: 216830 Burlington, VT Phone: (802) 769-7104 (tie 446)

On Tue, 23 Dec 1997 20:26:39 -0000, "Russell Smith"

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>Hi a friend of mine is having problems running TOCA on his IBM Aptiva. All >he gets is a phycadelic screen colours replacing the normal ones also the >resolution looks a lower than with my monster 3D. I believe the Aptiva uses >a Rage II 3d (ATI) graphics card so this is set in the opening menus and the >above problem occurs. If its set to auto detect the colours are ok but the >res is not very good main problem though is the frame rate 1 frame every 4 >seconds or so... !!

Use the Auto-Detect mode if that works better (This will still use your Rage Card). The drivers you have are probably OK. As for the resolution this is down to the fact that the ATI Rage uses 16 BIT textures and not 8 BIT. 16 BIT textures are usually bigger so not as many will fit into 4 Meg. To fit all of the textures into your video card's memory TOCA will sometimes half certain textures which means that some of the graphics may look blocky. Bryan.