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First post, by Galatea2.2

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I am receiving garbled text on the desktop (using Windows 95) after installing a voodoo rush card (latest drivers). I have read that this is a common occurrence:

"The AT25 is clocked at 72 MHz and memory cannot keep up with it, creating artifacts on the desktop (!). Settings frequency one or two MHz lower solves it."

Source: http://vintage3d.org/3dfx2.php

However, I am not sure how to change the frequency. Another blog post appears to shed more light:

"If you experience garbled text in Windows mode after installation of the new (i.e. some recent) 3dfx reference drivers, it seems like they overclock your board as well... check the MCLK_Frequency setting in the promotn.inf resp. in the registry. Current 3dfx reference drivers use to set 72; start tuning around 55 should fix it, 60 works for my Biostar Rush."

Source: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#! … 0XhUU%5B1-25%5D

Unfortunately, I cannot find promotn.inf in the registry. Can anyone please help? Thanks for your time.

Reply 1 of 2, by NitroX infinity

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promotn.inf seems like an inf file that's probably located in C:\Windows or C:\Windows\System or in the 3dfx driver installation folder.

In the registry you probably have to look for the entries of the 3dfx driver where the value is a number like 72.

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Reply 2 of 2, by Galatea2.2

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Thanks for the heads up. Turns out it was located here:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, SOFTWARE\Alliance Semiconductor\Driver\HW Acceleration Settings, MCLKFrequency

Changing the value from 72 to 60 solved the problem.

On a different note, it is slightly baffling that some, or even most, Rush cards are, by default, set to a frequency that they cannot handle.