First post, by kithylin
- Rank
- l33t
Okay here's my computer configuration first off:
Dell Optiplex GX-1
Pentium3 550mhz
512mb PC-100 SDRAM
PCI Diamond Stealth II S220 (Rendition Verite)
Sound Blaster SB16 Value ISA sound card
What I'm trying to accomplish: Get 3d acceleration (Whatever mode is supported, i don't care if it is only 1024x768) for descent2 and Quake in PURE MS-DOS 6.22.
I have the machine setup in real-mode native MS-DOS 6.22 for dos gaming on old dos machines, and I dug out my old Rendition Verite card out of the storage unit to try and play some retro games, but they aren't working.
I have the original retail cd-roms for Quake-1 and Descent2, I've installed Descent2, and patched it up to v1.2, and copied over the supposed Rendition Verite Edition folder from the disc to the game folder on the hard drive, run the d2vt.bat and it comes up "Rendition Verite Not Found" and dumps me back to the prompt. As to quake, I have no idea what to do to get it to work in ms-dos mode.
I also have windows 3.11 on the machine, but that's only to give network-LAN access to the machine so i can copy stuff to it off of my other 'modern' computers across the LAN, then drop down to ms-dos and play games again.
Do i need to load some kind of special TSR / driver before games will interface with the card?
Also you can kind of i guess ignore this reply below, I started this topic on something else then re-wrote it, after realizing what card i actually have.
EDIT: Also, could it possibly be just this dell machine being not a 'real computer' in the sense that i had to disable the onboard video to get the Rendition Verite to function at all? could that have anything to do with it?
