Don't buy Stealth II S220...(hard luck story inside...)

Geez Jan, I've been using a Stealth II for a couple of months and it runs N2 and TPTCC just fine...Of course I haven't done NROS but I have heard the Rendition version of Nros is not as stable...but I guess I need to ask what drivers are you using....I've got the .105's and they seem pretty stable. dave henrie

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>Folks, someone recommend to me a good video card... >Something that does both DOS apps and Win95 stuff, 3d accelleration, >that DOESN'T REBOOT ME OR GIVE ME ANY HASSLES!!!! >For a good price.... >I swear...if I had a Diamond Stealth tech in front of me right now, I'd >For all the hard luck people gave CPR, it wasn't half the piece of junk >that this stupid card is...at least you can finish races in CPR... >Reply to email address below.... >Cheers! >-- >??Jan Kohl?? **The Pits Performance Team** >Computer Systems Programmer >USAF Air-Ground Operations School >Hurlburt Field, FL >Castle Graphics - http://www.castlegraphics.com/ >The Pits - http://www.theuspits.com/

Folks, someone recommend to me a good video card... Something that does both DOS apps and Win95 stuff, 3d accelleration, that DOESN'T REBOOT ME OR GIVE ME ANY HASSLES!!!! For a good price.... I swear...if I had a Diamond Stealth tech in front of me right now, I'd For all the hard luck people gave CPR, it wasn't half the piece of junk that this stupid card is...at least you can finish races in CPR... Reply to email address below.... Cheers! -- ??Jan Kohl?? **The Pits Performance Team** Computer Systems Programmer USAF Air-Ground Operations School Hurlburt Field, FL Castle Graphics - http://www.castlegraphics.com/ The Pits - http://www.theuspits.com/

I have bought a Stealth2 recently as well and I felt as you do at first. I got everything straight tho and I'm very happy with the card now. Get the latest drivers from Diamond's website. Pay particular attention to how you install the drivers. set the plain VGA driver first, reboot it will probably go to safe mode, set the plain VGA driver again. reboot to normal mode install the new in controll tools Do a scandisk and defrag before installing the drivers, set virtual memory to 1 first. then turn it back to Win95 after. you might need v2kdosfix on the dos games to get running in dos mode rredline patch if your monitor doesnt support high refresh rates there is a openGL driver on the rendition site that makes Quake2 look very nice it's a good card, it's just a pain to get it going sometimes there are also Win95 updates that you might want to look into if your not running 95b Dave

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>>Folks, someone recommend to me a good video card... >>Something that does both DOS apps and Win95 stuff, 3d accelleration, >>that DOESN'T REBOOT ME OR GIVE ME ANY HASSLES!!!! >>For a good price.... >>I swear...if I had a Diamond Stealth tech in front of me right now, I'd

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> Folks, someone recommend to me a good video card... > Something that does both DOS apps and Win95 stuff, 3d accelleration, > that DOESN'T REBOOT ME OR GIVE ME ANY HASSLES!!!! > For a good price.... > I swear...if I had a Diamond Stealth tech in front of me right now, I'd > For all the hard luck people gave CPR, it wasn't half the piece of junk > that this stupid card is...at least you can finish races in CPR... > Reply to email address below.... > Cheers! > -- > ??Jan Kohl?? **The Pits Performance Team** > Computer Systems Programmer > USAF Air-Ground Operations School > Hurlburt Field, FL > Castle Graphics - http://www.castlegraphics.com/ > The Pits - http://www.theuspits.com/

I have the same card just installed it 2 weeks ago. At first I was having the same problem but called tech support, ((which seems to be a good idea for a few pennies i can get results form people who know instead of beating my brains out))well i have no problems at all now I just start the game in the RENDITION mode and all is well, oh for everyone's information you will post times slightly slower in rendition mode the normal, there is a bug which causes your car to lose traction for some reason, but im informed by N2 that a patch is on the way.

Thanks to all who replied, it gives me a bit of hope that *MAYBE* I'll get this thing running right. I've went through so many different variations, trying to get things running right, and the DS techs were absolutely no help whatsoever, that's part of the reason I'd like to *** one right now... Here's the info that I gave Dave Noonan, perhaps you all might see where my problem lies...and Dave H, I'm using the latest .105s... ***Occasional lockups on a reboot (comes up with the wrong graphics mode, have to do a full shutdown power-off and reboot before it comes back ok). As well, on shutdown will lock up about once out of 3 times...won't come up with the "it's now ok to turn off your machine" screen. ***NASCAR2.exe runs about once out of 5 times...it locks up before showing the papy screen, full reboot required. ***NASCAR2 Rendtion also has occasional problems...will occasionally lock up on the start. What's worse than this is the fact when racing, it occasionally reboots the machine. I've been trying to find out what simularities are causing this problem, I've done all the recommended settings to the properties of the NASCAR2 Rendition and NROS Rendition files. (Set the memory allowance higher, and tell it to protect memory areas.) It seems to reboot the machine after about 10-15 min of racing, I can detect no other simularities in the time that it reboots. And as well, it will also let me run an entire race without rebooting! This last reboot problem seemed to get much worse with the latest series of drivers, I didn't have this problem so bad with the earlier ones. ***As well, other DOS games (command and conquer, Warcraft II) have a horrendous time for me to try to run them, lock ups, general protection faults, ect. Cannot seem to do anything to get rid of them. ***Also occasional strange problems when trying to load some of the converted N2 tracks (haven't noticed this problem *yet* with the original N2 tracks). Gets error message "cannot load complete track description", much as if you created a bad ..dat file, deleted the .txt file, ect. However, there was nothing done to the track, one day it works great, the next it doesn't work! Strangely enough, I can delete some things and it will seem to work ok (sometimes), however, for our latest Vancouver race, I was able to run Rendition yesterday, today I cannot load the tracks (others besides Vancouver as well) to save my life! I DID run in SVGA mode yesterday, so I'm not sure if that is somehow doing something to the sim that's causing this problem. I really hope you all may have some ideas on this, I'm so tired of screwing with this thing that I'll probably use it as a bookend if I can't fix it. I really like it for the native Win95 stuff, F1RS and TOCA, Xwing vs TIE fighter all run excellent! I have full hardware accelleration on in XvT, full detail, and even in a milling battle of 20 TIE fighters, it works superbly. The rest of my specs are this...AMD motherboard (P166MMX processor), Soundblaster AWE64 card, 32 meg RAM, older IBM SVGA (PS/1) monitor. This monitor will not run much higher than 65-70 hz refresh, but I was told that this wouldn't cause the problems I've been having... Cheers! -- ??Jan Kohl?? **The Pits Performance Team** Computer Systems Programmer USAF Air-Ground Operations School Hurlburt Field, FL Castle Graphics - http://www.castlegraphics.com/ The Pits - http://www.theuspits.com/

I had the exact same prog. So I returned it and bought a hercules thriller 3d v2200 card. Five minutes later installed and no probs. Works perfect with the creative labs v2. Good luck.

My Steath II card Rocks ..... No problems at all I also have three friends we them also no problems.