Re: Problems with win2k

[Alexander Forst-Rakoczy <alfora@xxxxxx>]

Am Dienstag, 10.12.02 um 19:43 Uhr schrieb Orbital Mods:

> I'm glad it worked, I had the same problems myself but now they are 
> gone. I suspect this problem will be fixed in no time, so keep an eye 
> at new Detonator releases. Regarding users with Voodoo problems, there 
> is a good chance you can get good results updating your drivers, but 
> be warned, ever since 3dfx went out of business there's no support for 
> new drivers, I believe. You can find the latest official available 
> ones at http://www.voodoofiles.com and then some third party (ie 
> unofficial) ones. Take these last ones with a bit of caution and 
> please share your results if you manage to sort out these problems. 
> Once more let me emphasize this matter, uninstalling DirectX will most 
> likely not fix your current issues and you're risking your pooter 
> going "out of order". This is specially true in XP systems so unless 
> you know what you're doing, do not even try doing so.

I just wanted to share my experience with the 3Dfx graphics card. I 
also used to have a Voodoo3 2000 card. Everything worked fine until 
DirectX 8 came out and 3Dfx went out of business.

I used unofficial drivers for DirectX 8 but eventually experienced 
strange errors (Windows 98 crashed at boot time). It seems, the drivers 
are not fully compatible with DirectX 8.

Finally, I bought a gforce 3 card and had no problems. The Voodoo3 card 
is in my second PC that I use only for simple applications and 
raytracing.

Unfortunately, my only advice is to buy a graphics card where you can 
get up to date drivers, i.e., NOT a no name card. For Orbiter, it 
doesn't have to be the very latest one. Just wait until the next 
generation graphics chips come out and buy last year's models...  :-)

Alex
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