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Installed new video card now Tombraider won't run!!!

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First post, by Paulie

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I have been running Tombraider using Glidos (with VDM Sound 2.1.0 and the Glide exe) quite succesfully.

I decided to buy an nVidia GeForce 6800 GT to replace my GeForce FX 5700LE. Now I can only get as far as the main menu. If I try and enter the game e.g. New Game or Load game I just get a black screen

I have reinstalled the game completely first with Glidos 1.29 and then Glidos 1.30 both without any success

Windows XP SP2
AMD XP3000+ Barton
2Gb RAM
Matsonic 8147C+ Motherboard
nVidia Geforce 6800 GT 256MB
Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS Platiunum Soundcard

Any ideas? 😕

    Reply 1 of 5, by Glidos

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    I've been holding off hoping to think of something useful to say, but not much has occured to me. Trouble is I went for ATI this time, and got an X800, so I can't do 6800 tests myself.

    You could try changing VESASupport from Yes to No in glidos.ini

    So the FMVs at the begining run ok?

    Reply 2 of 5, by Paulie

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    I've solved the problems I was having. It wasn't a Glidos problem, it was nVidia's problem.

    I downloaded and installed the latest beta driver (66.81) from ftp://download.nvidia.com/Windows/ and now everything is fine. 😎

    Reply 3 of 5, by Paulie

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    Just a quick update.

    The game was running fine, but I did suffer from intermittent problems with the FMVs. I turned the VESA support off as you suggested and that cured the problem.

    Forgive my ignorance, but what is VESA? 😀

    Reply 4 of 5, by Kaminari

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    It was an ancient, standard graphic API for DOS, when DirectX/Win95 were still unheard of.

    Reply 5 of 5, by Paulie

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    Ah-ha! Thanks for the info 😎

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