First post, by procerus
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I have discovered by extensive experimentation that POD will not run on an Intel Pentium IV. This has been confirmed by reading the comments of the few POD fanatics still visiting the game's active forums.
I have searched this forum and read all POD related threads including-
showthread.php?s=&threadid=496&highlight=POD
I am also a POD installation adept and comfortably had it working on my previous system (P3 600 with 256MB PC100 with Voodoo2 SLI on Windows 98lite). The only thing that has changed here is the motherboard, processor and memory. I now run a P4c 2.4 with 512MB Dual Channel 400MHz DDR on an Intel D875PBZ board with Voodoo2 SLI on Windows 98lite. And the game won't run. All my other glide games still work perfectly so it's not a Voodoo2 issue.
I've tried installing all versions (software, MMX and 3Dfx and combinations thereof). I have also laboriously tried all the patches and combinations of these. All that happens is that a Windows' hourglass appears for a split second and then... nothing. No crash, no error message, no game, no nothing. I would guess that one thread of the game's code is getting ahead of itself somehow.
The situation is actually rather laughable. I own and play many DOS games (including DOS glide). I fully expected one of these to fail on the new system but they all work fine. It looks as if my first candidate for a purpose-built legacy system will be a Windows game!!!
Anyone else got it working on a P4 or know anyone that has?
TIA
98lite with 629K of free conventional memory in full DOS mode using QEMM 9.0 (or 628K with UMBPCI.SYS providing real mode for FastVid) with SmartDrive, CD-ROM, CuteMouse, sound support and UniRefresh all loaded high.
