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Topic: Help! FS:SDOE Crashing--worked fine before.
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Papageno
Cadet
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posted 03-05- 04:28 AM
   
Hey, all--Well, I hadn't fired it up in months and months so I try to give it a shot. No go. It gets to the where you pick your mission, then you hit the Fly button and... hard crash with a box in the upper-left part of the screen. Also, before this, the screen where you pick your mission seems off-center.
No ctrl-alt-del out of the crash, nothing but hitting the power switch works. I used the Task manager to quit out of anything remotely suspicious beforehand, tried the plain vanilla 1.5 version, then the latest plane-pack I had installed (5.something), which used to work fine... same problem with both versions.
Now the only things that could have changed are the DirectX version (I went to DX7a at some pt. to play NFS: Porsche Unleashed) and the video card drivers (I have a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP, running the latest non-beta Win95/98 drivers.) I really don't want to go to DX8 if I can help it 'cause another game I have doesn't do well at all under it. Setup:
Win98SE, PII 400, 128 MB PC100 RAM, Sony CD ROM 48xMax, SB Live Value, MS FF Pro joystick. Any help/ideas would be appreciated. José aka Papageno IP: Logged |
Da Jug head
Pilot
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posted 03-05- 07:45 AM
Jose,The problem is the new voodoo drivers. Do a search in this section. It has something to do with the color depth you have selected for your desktop if I remember correctly. Since I don't have a voodoo card, I don't remember the specifics.
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ArgonV
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posted 03-05- 12:02 PM
For the V3, use the 1.04 official drivers. This should solve your problem.IP: Logged |
Nat
Pilot
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posted 03-05- 12:56 PM
if you must use the latest voodoo drivers (which you don't) then you MUST swich to 32bit color on the desktop, the resolution don't matter, but the color depth does. But like Argon said, use the 1.04 version drivers, they are far better than the latest and in any case give you more resolutions than the newest (24bit color isn't enabled on the latest drivers)IP: Logged |
Papageno
Cadet
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posted 03-05- 07:03 PM
Well, I changed the color depth at the desktop to true color (32 bit) and it didn't crash immediately, which is good, but after a while it did, and I was also getting weird video glitches (in Glide mode), like when I shot up an enemy plane and it exploded, for a second there was a square full of black dots in front of me. Fairly soon after that it hung up completely--again, a hard crash.a) Is my best option to use Direct3D mode? or b) If I switch to the 1.04 V3 3000 AGP drivers as suggested, will they even work under DirectX 7a, which is what I have installed? IP: Logged |
Jerry
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posted 03-05- 07:56 PM
Papageno,I had the same exact symptoms when I ran my V-3 with the lates drivers and 32 bit. It ran OK for a while but then the textures started to look strange. Terrain textures started to look psychodelic. Switch back to the older driver and 16 bit color. It runs fine with DX7. IP: Logged |
Papageno
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posted 03-05- 08:16 PM
BTW, many thanks to all who have replied so far.Hey, Jerry-- do you use Glide or D3D mode? IP: Logged |
Jerry
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posted 03-05- 09:13 PM
When I used the V-3 it was always Glide...better FPS and no graphics problems along coast lines. I have recently upgraded though to a GeForce2 so can't run Glide.IP: Logged |
Papageno
Cadet
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posted 03-08- 04:33 PM
Damn. I installed the 1.04 Voodoo 3 drivers, but now Hidden and Dangerous ($9.99 now at EB BTW) doesn't display correctly.A question (also asked in the Patch forum): is it likely/possible that the upcoming patch will make SDOE work well with the latest Voodoo 3 drivers (1.07), be it with Glide, D3D or OpenGL? Or should I just blow some money and get a GeForce 2 MX video card or something? BTW, is it possible to have two 2D/3D video cards in the same machine if one is hooked up to AGP and the other to PCI, or is it not worth the trouble? This almost makes me want to go back to the days of a different boot disk for every game--easier than uninstalling and reinstalling video drivers every time I want to play SDOE. IP: Logged |
Nat
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posted 03-08- 04:55 PM
it is possible to run a PCI and AGP card on the same PC, the one that games will be played in is set in the BIOS where you select which display device to initaite first, it's a bit of messing around if you want to change between gaming cards, but not much if you know about BIOS, it's a simple setting change.I run a Voodoo3 2000 PCI using D3D (allows higher resolutions than glide) but I never had any problems, I switched back to the 1.04 drivers though because I always forget to switch the desktop back up to 32bit (I use 16bit all the time) but like I said, the game has always played fine for me this way. My System
AMDK6-2 533mhz
196mb Ram
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