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  • #1

    G200 Tech Demo

    This is probably an old problem that has been solved for people LONG ago, but I haven't come across the solution, so I'm going to ask.

    When I run the G200 Tech demo, I get the splash screen, I get the menu, and when I tell it to run, I get a white screen with music playing in the background. I know what I'm supposed to see, and I sure don't. Just a white screen. It's pretty much been this way since day one (last year), but I gave up on trying to figure it out (much like my other screen corruption problem).

    But since the folks around here really know their stuff (cool!), I thought I should float this one as well.

    I know it's goofy, but darn it all... I wanna watch that demo! And I should be able to right? And I can't, so... I wanna fix it.

    At one point (last year) someone suggested to me that it could be because I have a Voodoo2 in my system as well, but Direct3D is supposedly disabled on that board right now, and I've used several little apps to tell the machine what device should be used for Direct3D, but that doesn't affect it.

    White screen & music. Interesting tech demo, but I think my Paradise board from eons ago could swing that.

    Any thoughts?

    Thanks!

    - Excalibur

    Any thoughts?

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    PII-450MHz @ 450MHz, Giga-Byte GA-6BXE MoBo (v3.3 BIOS), 128MB PC100 ECC RAM, MGA Mystique G200 AGP 8MB (8MB add-on PULLED!; not overclocked) PD 5.25 / BIOS v2.6 - 20, SB-AWE64 Gold, Windows 98SE, DX6.1 and lots of other goodies that would just be showing off to list.
    PIII-866MHz @ 866MHz, ASUS CUSL2 MoBo (v1002a BIOS), 256MB (Mushkin)PC133 CAS2 RAM, MGA G400 MAX AGP 32MB; not overclocked; PD 6.14 / BIOS v1.6 - 25, SBLive! 5.1, Windows 98SE, DX7.0a and lots of other goodies that would just be showing off to list.
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  • #2
    The Demo seems to be pretty picky about what is running in the background. Turn some things off till you find out what is hosing it up. I remember putting it on my mom and dad's computer, and a whole crowd (neighbors included..) crammed themselves around the computer. hehe..pretty funny. Not much happining in good 'ol Lee's Summit, MO.

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    Sys 1: Tyan Tsunami s1846s, Celeron 300A@504, 128Mb PC100 RAM, Mill G200 16Mb retail, IBM Deskstar 8.4 gig, HP 8100i CD-RW, HP 6200c USB scanner, Hitachi SuperScan 753 19", winblows 98.

    Sys 2: Epox MVP3G-M, 128Mb PC100 Mem, AMD K6-2 300, Mill G200 8Mb retail, no-name 15" analog monitor.

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    • #3
      ack! Pthat! The tech demo willn't run with any remnants of voodie in there! I had a Voodoo 1 I had to manually extract residue with a toothbrush before that thing would run! (Well, not really.)

      But, seriously. I doubt the thing will run with the Voodoo in your system, and even if you remove it you have to get rid of ALL of the 3dfx .dlls and .vxd's, and even after that I had DirectX trying to throw AllThings3D to a non-existant Voodoo card. It's tough. And that's probably why it isn't working.

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      Ami Y. Koriuchi - foxyviolet@hotmail.com
      Asus P2B 1010 - P3-500 - And a G400Max now.
      256MB 6NS 70 GB of 10k RPM SCSI UW

      Mustard is illegal here.
      Ami Y. Koriuchi - MY EMAIL IS DEAD

      SYSTEM1
      Asus K7V266 - Athlon XP 1800+ - GeForce 4 TI 4600 128MB -
      1024 MB PC2100 DDR -
      200 GB UDMA100 7200 RPM - 60GB LVD 160 10K RPM

      SYSTEM2
      Asus A7V133 - Athlon 1.4 - G400Max
      768MB PC133 - 75 GB of 10k RPM SCSI UW

      HI SOMETiMES I GO AWAY FOR LONG TIME AND COME BACK YEARS LATER HI!

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      • #4
        PurpleHaze --

        That's seriously annoying, but would at least explain the behaviour I'm seeing.

        I wonder why it does that?

        Those crazy Matrox folks...

        - Excalibur

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        PII-450MHz @ 450MHz, Giga-Byte GA-6BXE MoBo (v3.3 BIOS), 128MB PC100 ECC RAM, MGA Mystique G200 AGP 8MB (8MB add-on PULLED!; not overclocked) PD 5.25 / BIOS v2.6 - 20, SB-AWE64 Gold, Windows 98SE, DX6.1 and lots of other goodies that would just be showing off to list.
        PIII-866MHz @ 866MHz, ASUS CUSL2 MoBo (v1002a BIOS), 256MB (Mushkin)PC133 CAS2 RAM, MGA G400 MAX AGP 32MB; not overclocked; PD 6.14 / BIOS v1.6 - 25, SBLive! 5.1, Windows 98SE, DX7.0a and lots of other goodies that would just be showing off to list.

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        • #5
          I don't think it's Matrox. I think it has to do with you installing the 3dfx first, and it's the primary D3D HAL.

          Git yourself a copy of DirectControl. But that didn't always work for me,either.

          ami*fiz

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          Ami Y. Koriuchi - foxyviolet@hotmail.com
          Asus P2B 1010 - P3-500 - And a G400Max now.
          256MB 6NS 70 GB of 10k RPM SCSI UW

          Mustard is illegal here.
          Ami Y. Koriuchi - MY EMAIL IS DEAD

          SYSTEM1
          Asus K7V266 - Athlon XP 1800+ - GeForce 4 TI 4600 128MB -
          1024 MB PC2100 DDR -
          200 GB UDMA100 7200 RPM - 60GB LVD 160 10K RPM

          SYSTEM2
          Asus A7V133 - Athlon 1.4 - G400Max
          768MB PC133 - 75 GB of 10k RPM SCSI UW

          HI SOMETiMES I GO AWAY FOR LONG TIME AND COME BACK YEARS LATER HI!

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          • #6
            PurpleHaze --

            I actually installed the Voodoo2 board second, after the Matrox board was verified as up and running. Never really messed with the Tech Demo originally, so I don't know if it ran before the VooDoo2 was in the machine.

            Just about all other apps I've tried know to use the G200 when speaking of the primary D3D device. Only Rainbow Six was confused on that point, and manually forcing it with that little 3dcc.exe app fixed that.

            No such luck with the tech demo.

            What is DirectControl?

            - Excalibur

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            PII-450MHz @ 450MHz, Giga-Byte GA-6BXE MoBo (v3.3 BIOS), 128MB PC100 ECC RAM, MGA Mystique G200 AGP 8MB (8MB add-on PULLED!; not overclocked) PD 5.25 / BIOS v2.6 - 20, SB-AWE64 Gold, Windows 98SE, DX6.1 and lots of other goodies that would just be showing off to list.
            PIII-866MHz @ 866MHz, ASUS CUSL2 MoBo (v1002a BIOS), 256MB (Mushkin)PC133 CAS2 RAM, MGA G400 MAX AGP 32MB; not overclocked; PD 6.14 / BIOS v1.6 - 25, SBLive! 5.1, Windows 98SE, DX7.0a and lots of other goodies that would just be showing off to list.

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            • #7
              hmm. See my games did go to the G200, but I really had to get the Voodoo1 out of there to run the tech demo. I'm not really sure why the tech demo gets confused that way... But this was in the days of DX5 anyways.

              Um, DirectControl lets you change 'undocumented' DirectX settings. I'm not totally sure if it works with Dx6 but it probably does. It allows you to disable certain devices, etc etc...

              What version of powerdesk are you running? I'm trying to remember what exactly I did to get the damn thing running, but I know I had the same problem.
              Ami Y. Koriuchi - MY EMAIL IS DEAD

              SYSTEM1
              Asus K7V266 - Athlon XP 1800+ - GeForce 4 TI 4600 128MB -
              1024 MB PC2100 DDR -
              200 GB UDMA100 7200 RPM - 60GB LVD 160 10K RPM

              SYSTEM2
              Asus A7V133 - Athlon 1.4 - G400Max
              768MB PC133 - 75 GB of 10k RPM SCSI UW

              HI SOMETiMES I GO AWAY FOR LONG TIME AND COME BACK YEARS LATER HI!

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              • #8
                The problem might be that you are trying to run it at too high resolution/color depth! Try lowering it...
                Celeron 566@877 1.8V, 256meg generic PC-100 RAM (running at CAS2) Abit BH6, G400 16meg DH@150/200, Western Digital Expert 18gig, Ricoh mp7040A(morphed to mp7060A) Pioneer 6X DVD slot load, Motorola Cable Modem w/DEC ethernet card, Soundblaster Live Value Ver. 2, Viewsonic GT 775

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                • #9
                  PurpleHaze --

                  So DirectControl is an "older" applet of sorts? Do you know who made it? As for my version of PowerDesk - it's the latest (5.25.019).

                  Maniac --

                  How can I tell what resolution it's running at if I can't see it? From what I can tell of the "feel" of the white screen, I'd guess that it's coming up in something lowish, like 640x480 or 800x600...

                  - Excalibur

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                  PII-450MHz @ 450MHz, Giga-Byte GA-6BXE MoBo (v3.3 BIOS), 128MB PC100 ECC RAM, MGA Mystique G200 AGP 8MB (8MB add-on PULLED!; not overclocked) PD 5.25 / BIOS v2.6 - 20, SB-AWE64 Gold, Windows 98SE, DX6.1 and lots of other goodies that would just be showing off to list.
                  PIII-866MHz @ 866MHz, ASUS CUSL2 MoBo (v1002a BIOS), 256MB (Mushkin)PC133 CAS2 RAM, MGA G400 MAX AGP 32MB; not overclocked; PD 6.14 / BIOS v1.6 - 25, SBLive! 5.1, Windows 98SE, DX7.0a and lots of other goodies that would just be showing off to list.

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                  • #10
                    Greebe --

                    But I wanna see it...! *whine* What do you think the problem might even be? I mean, come on... just a white screen? That's lame.

                    RE: overclocking - that scares me. I don't know if my case temp. can hold up to that, given that I'm paranoid that I might be riding a fine edge as is. After I get some auxillary fans and such, I'll probably dabble a bit with overclocking, but not until then. Too chicken.

                    EchoWars --

                    Unfortunately (for troubleshooting), I've tried running it with only Explorer (you know, the GUI?) and Systray, and no dice. Makes no difference.

                    - Excalibur

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                    PII-450MHz @ 450MHz, Giga-Byte GA-6BXE MoBo (v3.3 BIOS), 128MB PC100 ECC RAM, MGA Mystique G200 AGP 8MB (8MB add-on PULLED!; not overclocked) PD 5.25 / BIOS v2.6 - 20, SB-AWE64 Gold, Windows 98SE, DX6.1 and lots of other goodies that would just be showing off to list.
                    PIII-866MHz @ 866MHz, ASUS CUSL2 MoBo (v1002a BIOS), 256MB (Mushkin)PC133 CAS2 RAM, MGA G400 MAX AGP 32MB; not overclocked; PD 6.14 / BIOS v1.6 - 25, SBLive! 5.1, Windows 98SE, DX7.0a and lots of other goodies that would just be showing off to list.

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