First post, by ruthan
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- Oldbie
Hi,
i expected little bit more pleasant experience with comeback to Super socket 7, especially when i used HW which i though that is quite "safe"..
I have this HW:
+ MB Gigabyet 5ax 4.1
+ Geforce 3 TI 200 worst one - Inno3D, but its still GF3 at least on paper and it was cheap..
+ Creative SB 16 CT2940 - i though that some creative SB 16 ISA non Vibra card would be best (at least the Wikipedia pointed me to this model as that one SB 16), i dont care about EAR, Aureal3D and other fancy staff..
+ 3x 128 MB of RAM - memtest at least for short run is good
+ 3Com 905B-TX 100 Mbit network card
+ 80 GB Matrox HDD
+ some IDE DVD-RW
I have 2 problems with it:
1) Win98SE (vanilla + drivers+IE6) - when i run Quake 1 - full, shareware, dos version, GLquake etc - i get freeze at the start of game loading a get info about video mode and SB settings and nothing.
I got quite similar problem with Quake 2 demo - last single player - start the game, and freeze with loading cursor and incialization window - no error message.
I tried multiple Graphics card drivers 8.xx-21.xx version no change, multiple DirectX version - it probably doesnt matters, but i had to upgrade it anywhere from DX 6.1 to 8.1b.
Half life uplink demo - again start freeze, it has Quake 1 engine too.
I though that problem can be in sound card, but even after card removal its the same.. I Dos same Quake 1 installation is running fine, without sound (see 2nd problem).
I used vanilla Win98SE sb drivers, later i tried sbw9xup.exe (1997) but its the same. Its the same with or without ALI Chipset drivers - i used 2.13 as someone recommended.
I dont have to much idea, what could be wrong when other games are fine.
When installed this machine from Ultimate Win98 SE cd with drivers packs and zillions of updates - these games were running fine, i didnt liked that "distro" overall.
Other games - Dos - Doom 2 / Warcraft II, ,MDK1. OpenGL Quake 3/ Vampire Redemption, Direct 3D - Expenpandable, MDK2, Diablo II,Warcraft III. Direct Draw - Diablo I are running fine, sound is fine within old of them.
2) Dos sound, it should be easy. I tried vanilla SB 16 driver recommended for virtual machines, i tried to run both Phils SB 16 drivers, but driver never detect SB at all.
Diagnose utility give me error that - Blaster variable is not set at all, or is not set properly - im using basic I5 D1 A220 Diagnose /S cant card at any address.
I tried IRQ7 too and any other enable options like 2 and 9 too, is the same.
Bios settings, i used manual configuration for reserve IRQ 5 to Legacy ISA for SB16 and DMA0 + DMA1 and DMA5 for Legacy ISA too, its working fine, but windows games are working fine, even when i disable it and it worked with Win98+drivers pack, but any of settings change cant now fix that Q1/Q2/Half life problem.
Im old goal oriented goatman, i care about facts and freedom, not about egos+prejudices. Hoarding=sickness. If you want respect, gain it by your behavior. I hate stupid SW limits, SW=virtual world, everything should be possible if you have enough raw HW.