Ryder252 wrote on 2023-12-27, 19:31:

As I have a Voodoo3, I also tried some Glide games like Descent and Extreme Assault under pure DOS -and had no luck getting them to run at all. Blinking cursor on any mode for all of them. I'm convinced that it's incompatibility with EMM386, which is needed for the SB16 emulation that makes the sound work in the first place. Thoughts?

Are you using the proper patches? For Descent II you need the D2_3DFX patch, and you need the Voodoo2 patch for Extreme Assault. See Re: Voodoo 2 DOS Glide compability matrix (patches are in the first post)

vetz wrote on 2023-12-27, 20:33:

Ryder252 wrote on 2023-12-27, 19:31:

As I have a Voodoo3, I also tried some Glide games like Descent and Extreme Assault under pure DOS -and had no luck getting them to run at all. Blinking cursor on any mode for all of them. I'm convinced that it's incompatibility with EMM386, which is needed for the SB16 emulation that makes the sound work in the first place. Thoughts?

Are you using the proper patches? For Descent II you need the D2_3DFX patch, and you need the Voodoo2 patch for Extreme Assault. See Re: Voodoo 2 DOS Glide compability matrix (patches are in the first post)

Ah, I had used that thread before when picking games to test, but I didn't realize the patches were there too. I've used patches from other sites before, but I'll test using these when I get home from work this evening and report back. Thanks!

Well, I had time to test out Extreme Assault with the patches you mentioned: in pure dos, xa.exe works as expected while xa_3dfx.exe hangs on a black screen with no cursor after the text-only initialization. I have yet to test DII. Could it possibly have something to do with Glide not playing well with EMM386?

Any ideas?