Cool, glad you got it going! A useful trick with the AWE64 is to attrib CTMIX.CFG and CTPNP.CFG to read-only once you've dialed in a setup you like. The drivers like to change working configs for no discernible reason on boot sometimes (yay PnP.) Making the config files read-only will prevent that …

Thanks for the input all! What's wrong with the 'bridged' Radeons? I get they would be slow compared to the PCI-e versions but I'd be upgrading from an even older card... Are they gonna be worse than my 9200? Or is it more stability/compatibility issues? If the right mobo pops up I'm not averse to …

Nitronic Rush is ~2012 and needs DX9.0c and PixelShader-something. The website 'recommends' 512MB but I've run it on an old Dell laptop with an NVidia Quadro w/256MB and it did ok. It doesn't run on the Radeon (shows a blank white screen) but *does* run with the SwiftShader 3.0 software renderer …

Hey all, need suggestions on a video card that: - runs in an AGP 8X slot (Gigabyte mobo) - has 256 or 512MB+ of RAM - has NATIVE composite / S-Video output (supports textmodes and runs seamlessly without any VGA/DVI monitor at all) - runs Nitronic Rush . Note: not expecting 60FPS in 1080P with this …

gerwin wrote: Don't bother with UniVBE v6.7 in DOS, it got a lot worse for DOS with that last version. What about it 'got worse'? I run 6.7 on my rig; seems to do its job fine.

As soon as I plug the GUS PNP, CTCM complains at boot showing up this error messages: ERROR: Bad Resource Data Checksum (Vendor ID 0) Expected=f8 Actual=0 ERROR: Bad Resource Data Checksum (Vendor ID 100561e) Expected=f8 Actual=0 This makes AWE64 FM synth silent (tested with DOOM). If the GUS PNP …

I think you're probably right, now that I've had a better look ... to be honest I was so shocked it displayed *at all* I didn't pay that much attention to the colouring. I'll compare it again when I get a few spare minutes tomorrow. Ambience doesn't work at all, it just goes "out of range" …

^^ It looked OK to me, the LCD response time is kind of slow which aided the blending effect a lot. It seemed to cycle colors as normally. (I've now put that monitor back in my storage room but can confirm this next time I get it out...) Here is a link to the testing suite . I basically made it for …