Help Please.
I Just added a Diamond Monster 3DII (12MB) to my system, and when it works
it is absolutely brilliant, but..... it seems to have a mind of its own !!
Spec is :
Dell Dimesnion XPSR350
Pentium II 350MHz,
64MB,
Diamond Permedia 2, 8MB AGP
Turtle Beach A3D Sound
+ New Diamond Monster 3DII Voodoo2
Sometimes GPL doesnt even start up... I get the egg-timer, for about 4
seconds, then its as if something is running in the background, since all
the menu's are slow, and a Ctrl-Alt-Del will show either a "Papyrus Window"
or "gpl" or soemtimes both (I think).
Other times.... I get through all except the last green button to get into
the car.
Other times... I manage to drive, but when I try to Esc, Enter to go back to
the pits, all I get is a black screen.
I have tried all resolutions, but seems to make no difference.
Last thing I tried was downloading the "new" voodoo2 drivers from
www.3dfx.com but this seems to be exactly the same.
to .
Thanx
Declan
This is going to sound crazy but I had a similar problem (every few
launches of GPL the program would just hang and I had to Ctrl-Alt-Del
and End Task) but the problem went away and never came back when I
installed DirectX6. (I was using the DirectX that comes with Win98
before that.) Just thought I'd mention that though it was probably a
fluke.
--Keith
On Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:54:17 -0000, "Declan"
--Keith
"Coming in 2nd place just means that you are the first to lose!"
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>Help Please. >I Just added a Diamond Monster 3DII (12MB) to my system, and when it works >it is absolutely brilliant, but..... it seems to have a mind of its own !! >Spec is : >Dell Dimesnion XPSR350 >Pentium II 350MHz, >64MB, >Diamond Permedia 2, 8MB AGP >Turtle Beach A3D Sound >+ New Diamond Monster 3DII Voodoo2 >Sometimes GPL doesnt even start up... I get the egg-timer, for about 4 >seconds, then its as if something is running in the background, since all >the menu's are slow, and a Ctrl-Alt-Del will show either a "Papyrus Window" >or "gpl" or soemtimes both (I think). >Other times.... I get through all except the last green button to get into >the car. >Other times... I manage to drive, but when I try to Esc, Enter to go back to >the pits, all I get is a black screen. >I have tried all resolutions, but seems to make no difference. >Last thing I tried was downloading the "new" voodoo2 drivers from >www.3dfx.com but this seems to be exactly the same. >to . >Thanx >DeclanThanks !
I came home this evening and tried again, after a lot of installing and
re-installing of drivers, and GPL works every time !!!
I reckon its after a cold-boot, rather than a "restart" ? - Mabye a
"Restart" from win95 is the same thing, but its the only logic I can see !
And by the way... GPL is excellent at 35.99 or 36 fps !! Its like a
different game ! wow.
>Get the latest drivers from Diamond! The latest reference drivers are problematic with
>GPL I think.
Get the latest drivers from Diamond! The latest reference drivers are problematic with
GPL I think.
--
Byron Forbes
Captain of Team Lightning Bolt
http://members.tripod.com/~HOSHUMUNGUS
and
http://www.frontiernet.net/~godsoe/bolt/home.htm
