VOGONS


First post, by Kamerat

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I had some trouble running some DOS games on my rigs. First i thougt the problems were ralated to the sound cards or the VIA chipsets, but then i desided to try a S3 Virge/DX PCI card and then the problems disappeared. Then I tried running the other cards with VGA instead of DVI-D and it looks much better now. Anyone else here who had stability issues when running games on DVI-D?

Test rigs:

  • AMD Athlon XP 2400+, MSI K7T266 Pro2/MS-6380 Ver3, 512MB DDR SDRAM
    AMD Athlon 1333MHz, MSI K7T Turbo VER:3, 256MB SDRAM

Pinball Fantasies:

  • ATi Radoeon 9700 Pro, 9500 Pro, 9600 64bit
    • Won't start, monitor goes to standby.
    nVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 64 bit
    • Some corrupted graphics in game menu.

Death Rally:

  • ATi Radoeon 9700 Pro, 9500 Pro, 9600 64bit
    nVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 64 bit
    • Graphic corruption and crash, disabeling sound makes the game stable (tried with MediaForte 801, ESS ES1938 (Solo-1) and Aureal 8830 (Vortex 2)).

DOS Sound Blaster compatibility: PCI sound cards vs. PCI chipsets
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