I'm appealing to all you 3D genius-types out there on RAS. I purchased a 3dfx
Voodoo3 2000 AGP card to replace my Matrox Millenium II 2D AGP card, and my
Diamond Monster 3D PCI card (I got tired of 25fps in GPL with only 1/2 detail
on!).
Anyway, here is the dilema:
I followed 3dfx's instructions, (remove all display utilities, change display
adapter to standard VGA 640x480 16 colors, power off PC, remove old cards,
install voodoo3, power on, install drivers from CD, re-install DirectX 6.x from
CD, install 3dfx tools from CD), and, lo and behold, I've still got video when
I reboot Windows. BUT, here's the first problem: my initial windows screen
(Netware client 32 login, not the logo.sys screen) is displayed at 640x480.
Once I log into Windows/NetWare, my desktop is resized properly to 1024x768,
16bit high color.
Problem two is the one I really care about -- I get NO 3D use whatsoever out of
the card. If I go to launch a game that uses 3D, the PC immediately locks up,
and must have the plug pulled out of the back in order to reboot (the power
management even disables the reset and power buttons!). This occurs with
TOCA2, GPL, MGPRS, CPR, and UNREAL, as well as when I try and run dxdiag.exe.
Particulars:
Dell Dimension XPSD300 (PII300)
96MB RAM
AWE64 sound card
3dfx voodoo3 2000 AGP
Dell D1226H monitor
Latest drivers from 3dfx did not make any difference. One final note: I can
use 2D games that use DirectX, (Age of Empires), so I'm pretty sure DX is not
causing the problem.
I know I'm being kinda general in my descriptions here, but this post is
getting too large as it is! If you need specifics, let me know, I'll galdly
fill you in! Does anyone have any thoughts? Possible 'contamination' of 3d
and DX files from old video cards? Hardware incompatibility? I've got a
message sent off to 3dfx, but I'm not going to hold my breath on that one......
Thanks, all!
Make sure that in your BIOS settings you have an IRQ allocated to the video card
(that isn't shared by something else) and that your video bios is not shadowed.
MAke sure your AGP aperture isn;t larger than your system memory. I have a
V3/2000 PCI and also a V3/3000 AGP and have no problems with either of them. I
just did what I always do with new vid cards, pretty much what you did. drop
it to VGA, remove all old drivers via any available means, delete the dirs from
old driver installs, maybe sweep the registry for references to those dirs, then
run the CD the way they suggest. a few restarts for the system to 'swallow' all
the info and do its registry copies, etc. and everything was smooth.
Could also possibly be bad card.
daxe
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Thanks for the ideas. The only thing I can see with the BIOS that might be
suspect is that the Video BIOS os shadowed, with no aparent way of disabling it
(3dfx want's it to be disabled, but I cannot find that item in the BIOS setup!
-- sounds like I need to log a call to Dell on that one....) IRQ and aperature
are already confirmed as kosher. I'm almost praying it IS a bad card at this
point......
What BIOS do you have? I probably have a computer around here with something
similar and I could look into it for you. Email if you like.
daxe
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Hi,
dxdiag.exe.
Had same problem like you. Its because of your "old" v2. you must delete
everything related
to your V2 (Registry, Glide.*). Or, the long way, make "Format C:" and
reinstall all. I did it and now it works fine
HTH Andreas
That did it! I simply wiped my drive (I spent several hours in the registry,
but I figure I prbably missed 1 hex value somewhere...), reinstalled, and my
GPL performance is SMOKING! I kinda figured it might be a legacy 3D driver
conflict, and I suppose this confirms it.
Thanks to all who responded with ideas!
