oh yes, and just to throw something else out here, when I press enter to make the scoreboard go away, It instead leaves the view of the top-half of the table with the scoreboard on the top of the screen. I though that was wierd, especialy since this feature worked properly in dosbox. Yes dosbox, it's too jerky though.

Hmm, I found and old 486 that no one wanted... so I stuck my old sb16 in it and presto! Epic Pinball goodness. The sound quality is better in 98-dos mode on my AMD, but who cares? Perfect gameplay.
I noticed though, that not only was the scoreboard thing not working right in dos-mode, the screen mode was not working properly either. It seems to be a higher resolution on my old system, making the scorboard smaller, and allowing you to see further up the playing field. On the AMD, there's a little flicker of the game before it actualy starts. I'm thinking that it *tries* to do the screen mode the game wants, can't do it, and so tires something else. The gameplay seem to act diffently too because of this, though you wouldn't notice it unless you played the 2 systems side by side.
I wonder if a decicated video card (geeforce) would know how to do the proper screen mode??
& extreme pinball is completely bunk on both system now... --RJ