First post, by Dhall
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Greetings,
I would like to ask the community a few questions concerning a 3dfx V2 card.
It is a standard Innovision reference V2 card with 12 Mb memory. It is defective.
It produces the following symptoms:
- random freezing with Quake 2 engine games (sometimes producing few horizontal lines, sometimes just locks up)
- random BSOD (rare)
Now, the strange part is that it only dies when I try to use it in such games. I can play Unreal ALL DAY and not once will it produce crashes. Also, I can run 3dmark99 benchmark and it will run smoothly, no errors.
I think we may exclude driver problems. I have tried several drivers, and I also own another of this type and that works without errors. Fresh win98Se install. (it did produce the same errors in win xp) The card is clearly defective.
The board looks intact, I see no broken or bent legs or dead capacitors.
In quake 2 3dfx opengl uses something differently than Unreal or 3dmark? I would love to use the card in SLI but I can only run Unreal...very stange. I also tried installing 3dfx 1.46 3dfxopengl.dll into the directory..but it made no difference.
What do you think the problem might be?