Had a similar issue with Gex but only with the intro cinematic when using a S3 ViRGE/GX video card where only the top half of the screen was visible unless I toggle the fullscreen mode. The same intro works without any issues with a on S3 Trio64V+.

It depends of the video card and/or driver.

I remember that Street Fighter Alpha 2 had a win95 version that ran at VGA resolution. I trying to remember if it had any of these problems. I have it somewhere, maybe I should go dig it out and check.

Gmlb256 wrote on 2021-08-09, 20:51:

Had a similar issue with Gex but only with the intro cinematic when using a S3 ViRGE/GX video card where only the top half of the screen was visible unless I toggle the fullscreen mode. The same intro works without any issues with a on S3 Trio64V+.

It depends of the video card and/or driver.

I have exactly Trio64V+ and it does have this issue, not only for cinematics, but also for the video itself.

Now I tried Windows 95 on faster machine Pentium 200 MMX with Voodoo 3 PCI and everything works flawlessly. DirectX is 7.0, even the game requires 3.0. The game reports it might have issues with 3d accelerators on fullscreen, so they recommend ALT+ENTER in game and launch it in the window. Which is what I tried as well. It is using only DirectX 3, so it must be a simple software renderer. Similar to title Adventures of Lomax (which is working on both machines).

Ok, I will put Voodoo 3 PCI into Pentium 1 133MMX machine with Windows 98 and that will pinpoint if the issue is Windows 98 SE vs Windows 95 incompatibility or Trio64V+ vs "some other graphic card" incompability.

Thank you.

Okay, I can confirm it was graphic card issue.

Installing the same S3 Trio 64V+ with official S3 Windows 95 drivers from Vogons on Windows 95 machine provides same bad result as on Windows 98 on another machine.

This is issue with early MS-DOS games converted to Windows 95 or early win95 games using DirectX 2 or DirectX 3 API.

What I found so far:
1) Geforce FX 5200 Ultra (Win98) not working
2) S3 Trio 64V+ (Win95 and Win98) not working
3) Voodoo 3 PCI (Win95) is working

That means I need extra machine for these games. So one for early Win95 games. One for Win98 games.

The S3 Trio64V+ driver that comes with older DirectX runtimes has less issues compared to the official one by S3. A notable one in the S3 ones was that the computer locks-up when trying to use a VESA mode in a DOS application while running Windows 9x on a that card, only when using S3VBE20 with CLEAR- parameter mitigates that problem.

You can try these drivers to see if the problem is still there or not with Mortal Kombat 3.

On my Trio64V+ I've only seen this happen with Destruction Derby 2 way back in the day.