First post, by FeedingDragon
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I have my vintage system up and running, and other than a couple of minor issues, it seems to be running fine (system specs below.) I don't believe those issues are related to this, but I guess they could be. The first is the KVM seems to interfere with the <CTRL><ALT><DEL> line on the keyboard (the system locks up when I use it.) If I remove the KVM from the equation, there isn't a problem. I believe it has to do with the KVM not sending a steady signal on that line, as I've had problems with it before with another system (the KVM is earmarked for eventual replacement.) The other issue is I cannot seem to set my Rage Pro to 1366x768 mode in Windows 98. I have it set to 1024x768 now, and that's good enough I guess.
I'm trying to play Shadow Warrior installed from the registered CD (the US non-Wal Mart versions.) It seems to go fine, but for some reason the game locks up in the first few seconds of play. I've disabled the audio, tried all video modes, even booted without any drivers (even the mouse driver.) I'm hoping it's a simple fix, as I'd prefer to play it on my vintage system and not in DOSBox (I really only use DOSBox when system speed is an issue.) I tried installing in Windows98, but the problem occurs there as well, only it just closes the window instead of locking up the system. I don't get any sort of error messages. I've tried several AGP settings in BIOS, but there are just too many combinations to go through them all. Mainly I tried minimal settings (1x 4MB aperture,) and maximum setting (2x 8MB aperture.) I also tried setting the aperture to 32M, though I don't really see the reason with an 8M card 😒
The second issue is the 3DFX patch doesn't seem to work. First I have Voodoo 2's, so I thought that might be the problem (and I did use the environment variable settings.) If I use any except the latest 3DFX drivers (glide2x.ovl,) I get a Voodoo not found error message, this includes the glide2x.ovl (v2.50,) that comes on the CD. If I use the latest (last,) driver it seems to work, only I get a black screen (no audio/music,) and it stops there (have to reboot.) When I couldn't get the 3DFX version to work in DOSBox (Daum build,) either, I gave up on that for now - but would sort of like to get it working. The driver on the CD seems to work a "little" better with Tomb Raider (1.) That is, it loads up and I get sound, but as soon as I enter the game, all I get is black screen (though I do get sound, and can exit the game - working blind.) I get the same issue (black screen - no audio - must reboot,) as soon as I try to run it with the latest drivers. I've tried connecting my monitor to each VooDoo 2 card with the passthrough going to the same card my monitor is connected too. I only have the single passthrough cable, but from what I'm reading, that should be all I need. The instructions say, connect passthrough & monitor to the "first" voodoo 2 card only. Though it doesn't specify if this is chosen by PCI slot or by SLI cable orientation (I imagine the twist in the cable is important there,) which is why I moved the connections to the other card and tried.
System Specs:
Asus P3V133 Motherboard
P3 800Mhz (FSB 100Mhz) CPU
256MB PC133 RAM (FSB set to 100Mhz though)
AGP 2x - ATI Rage Pro Turbo 8MB
2x - STB Blackmagic 3D Voodoo 2 12MB PCI cards (SLI)
MPU-401 w/SCB-55 daughterboard - connected to MT-32 (plan to add CM-32L later.)
AWE32 PnP (well, it was this for $10 or a non-PnP for $120 at the time, and I've never had problems with it.)
Feeding Dragon