FYI
Have discovered via first hand experience that a voodoo banshee card will
not work properly with GPL and DX7 installed unless you also install the dx7
complaint banshee reference drivers.
When I tried to run with ELSA's latest drivers for my banshee and DX7
installed on my cumputer the screen would garble and lock. DX7 complaint
reference drivers have fixed this problem
My Creative Banshee worked perfectly with DX7 and 7a with the driver off the
CD, as well as the latest driver available from the Creative site.
don
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>FYI
>Have discovered via first hand experience that a voodoo banshee card will
>not work properly with GPL and DX7 installed unless you also install the dx7
>complaint banshee reference drivers.
>When I tried to run with ELSA's latest drivers for my banshee and DX7
>installed on my cumputer the screen would garble and lock. DX7 complaint
>reference drivers have fixed this problem
I have GPL, DX7 and a voodoo Banshee 16mb.
The installation of DX7 has nothing to do with it.
DX 7 racts differntly with all systems. I sem to be one of the lucky ones
who never has problems but I doubt that your probelm means that this will
not work with all systesm of this sort. My only problem is the occasional
*** on start-up but that was there even before DX7.
To combat in, I find if you set resolution and colour to the lowest setting
before starting the game it prevents hangs, this goes for all games. It
doesn't effect resolution insie the gaem either.
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GraDee (...who is here to help)
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"The dozens and dozens........."
I have been getting what appear to be excellent performance from my Voodoo
Banshee card since installing Dx7 then 7.0a. Even on my P233mmx, 64mb RAM
system I get 28+ fps with 11 ai cars (about 20-22 on the grid). DirectX 7.0a
has been a really good release for me as I have found definate improvements
in frame rate since installing it (and this is with a MSFF wheel which is
supposed to hog the cpu).
Peter Hooper
