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First post, by Amigaz

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Recently got my hands on Wing Commander III and fired it up on my 486DX 50mhz + built in crappy CL5428 gfx...as expected it was slow even with latest univbe loaded
So I quickly installed it on my P200 which has a Voodoo 3000 inside it..but this card isn't supported by univbe or the vbe stuff that comes with WC3, is there a vesa driver for the Voodoo 3 is it a dead end and I need to put in a trusty S3 gfx card or my tseng 6000 PCI gfx card?

My retro computer stuff: https://lychee.jjserver.net/#16136303902327

Reply 1 of 2, by Mike 01Hawk

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This might be the same issue I had with my V3 and Under A Killing Moon.... it just wouldn't work. I throw in my S3 and UAKM works great 😒

Once I have my rig back in 1 piece I'll try to remember and reinstall WC3 and see if I can get it to work w/ the V3

Dell Optiplex Gxpro: Built solely so I could re-live my SB16 days properly with newly acquired sound pieces: MT-32, SCB-55, and DB50xg 😀

Reply 2 of 2, by Amigaz

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Mike 01Hawk wrote:

This might be the same issue I had with my V3 and Under A Killing Moon.... it just wouldn't work. I throw in my S3 and UAKM works great 😒

Once I have my rig back in 1 piece I'll try to remember and reinstall WC3 and see if I can get it to work w/ the V3

yeah, VESA support in the V3 sucks

WC III hs some other nice issues...it doesn't like fast cd-rom drives or a too fast CPU....you get alot of read errors with fast/new cd-rom drives and weird crashes and lockup's in the setups and in the game if your CPU is too fast
As usual Origin were lazy when they coded the game

My retro computer stuff: https://lychee.jjserver.net/#16136303902327

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