Greetings,

With my 486DX2/66 build finalized (hopefully) with a Zida 4DPS mobo, 16mb RAM, some manner of ATI/Mach64/Rage card with Windows 3.1 drivers, a Sound Blaster Pro2 CT1600, and a PicoGUS (and a spare ISA slot for either one of my Opti cards in WSS mode at all times, or perhaps a NIC - I haven't decided yet,) with WFW 3.11 and MS-DOS 7.1 installed on a FAT32 8GB CF card via an IDE adapter, everything seems to be working (except for KQ5 CD,) and a couple of issues in Windows:

Trying to set up Phantasmagoria and running the video test fails, with 140-150k pixels/second with a required 400k-something pixels/second. I do not understand what is going on considering that the game should run find on a 486, and I actually played and finished the game on Windows 95 back in the day with a far weaker 1mb video card. I tested three different ATI cards varying between 4mn and 8nb video RAM, including a Rage Pro, and I am getting the same failed result.

Also, I am stuck in 16-bit disk mode. I found a SIS 496/497 driver which ungreyed the first 32-bit check box (disk access, I think.) However, when clicking on the 32-bit file access, it selects, but gives an error that a permanent swap file is not possible because I do not have an INT 13H HDD. I tested this with two different CF/IDE adapters and two different CF cards.

I seem to remember, long ago when I had my original 4dps that ended up dying, and with two 4gb sandisk cards, I somehow fixed the disk issue, and did not have the video issue as I remember installing a bunch of Sierra games in Windows, just because. I know that the CPU can be a bottleneck, but the Rage Pro in Windows 3.x on a Pentium 166 if like 1200-1500k pixels/sec. But this PC exceeds the system requirements for the Windows 3.x version. My 4dps is set to auto config since the manual claims that this loads optimal values. I am diligently researching the disk issue since perhaps the slower access has something to do with it, plus 16-bit is less than ideal when a 32-bit option exists.

Any ideas?

Scythifuge