Is the picture stable (i.e. is it just corrupted as if the video memory were messed with, or is it actually flickering and moving and so on as if you had a TV "sync" problem?)

What video-card do you have, and what monitor, and what happens if you do *not* use the VESA option?

V.

Well I have a Voodoo3 2000 and my monitor is a Panasonic SL70i. The image is frozen but it seems like it is cut up like a puzzle. I see a bit of it moving when I move the mouse so I guess thats the cursor. If I don't use the VESA support the game won't even start.

So it's not the monitor, probably it's the video-card.
Tell you what, uncheck the VESA checkbox, and switch to VESA manually when the game loads as foloows: when VDMSound shows the GPL for half a second or so before the game loads (you know, all that GNU license stuff) press Alt+Enter to go full-screen. Any difference?

If there is no difference then try to use UNIVBE (search on the Web or wait for someone who successfully used it to help here on the forum).

V.

When I try pressing Alt-Enter, the game starts running but I get the same scrambled screen.

What is UNIVBE anyways?

Read this thread here:
showthread.php?threadid=79

So therefore running this UNIVBE "should" help me out with the image? And how do I make this work? Run UNIVBE and then try running the game?

Personally, I have no idea how to get UNIVBE working, since it never did for me. Try looking at SciTech's site for information on it.

Also, since this isn't a VDMSound problem, I'm moving this to The Guide > DOS.

You make a bat file that starts UNIVBE then the game, one after another, and then "Run with VDMS" the bat file.
V.

Sounds good, where can i get UNIVBE?

http://www.elys.com/software/vesa/

None of those drivers work. It won't load them. Have they ever worked for you?

You see, this is why I hate UNIVBE (Univesa). It just doesn't work on modern cards.

I dont know how modern my Voodoo3 is 😁

I wonder if 3DFX ever made a VESA capable driver before they were bought.

No, dude, when I say modern, I mean after about 1995/1996. heh...

Snover wrote:

No, dude, when I say modern, I mean after about 1995/1996. heh...

I believe the Voodoo3 was released in '98 or '99.

Well it does work but NT get's in the way.

Don't have this game but if it works in Connectix Virtual PC then it likely is a VESA issue. Some VESA games that wouldn't run in 2K work in XP but those that work in neither work fine in VPC due to VPC allowing direct access to the VESA on the emulated video card.

Get UNIVBE.

Do the .bat trick.

Once the .bat is ready, either check the "VESA compatibility" checkbox, or do the "Alt+Enter" trick (UNIVBE itself needs to be in full-screen mode before it works, kind of like VESA emulation on top of VESA emulation).

V.

So its just NT getting in the way eh?
Well I guess I'll look into this VPC business.

When I try running UNIVBE in full screen mode it says this: SuperVGA not detected - installation aborted.

Im using the Universal VESA Driver. Should I be using another driver?