BP6 + G400 + V2 1000 + Win 2k + (UT or Q3A) = uh oh!

[Travis L. Knodel]

I have an Abit BP6 with two Celeron 366's, not overclocked, a single headed G400 (16 megger), Voodoo 2 1000 PCI, and I'm having problems running some games under Windows 2000.

In Unreal Tournament, I'm trying to use glide under the NT 4 drivers that were converted to 2000 drivers on ntgamepalace.3dfiles.com. These drivers work fine for a while, but then after several minutes UT crashes everything and I can't get my computer into the task manager to quit the game. On this game I've tried to set the game to run on one processor at a time, by using the "set affinity" option in the task manager.

In Quake 3, I'm trying both my G400 and my voodoo 2 to load Quake 3 Arena using the command line for SMP. The movie plays and then it asks for the CD key in jumbled up letters. In this game I am able to go to the task manager and end the game.

One more game that I'm having problems with is Unreal 1. In this game I'm seeing the game load just fine, I'll set up a game and start playing. It freezes a lot like UT does, except that I'm able to go into the task manager and quit it when Unreal freezes up.

If anyone has any driver fixes or suggestions it would be greatly appreciated. My setup is below:
Abit BP6 w/ two Celeron 366's
128 MBs PC100
Acer 40x CD-Rom
Memorex CRW-1622 CDRW
NEC Iomega Zip 100
Matrox G400 SH 16 MB
3Dfx Voodoo 2 1000 PCI 12 MB
IBM ATA 66 15.2 GB HD
Netgear 10/100 Base T card
Diamond MX 300 Sound Card, using NT5 drivers



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Travis L. Knodel
ICQ 5570732

[Gurm]

Considering that the Voodoo + G400 combination doesn't work in Win9x either, I'd be doubtful that you'd ever get this working in Win2k. At least not any time soon.

- Gurm

P.S. Also be aware that the current incarnation of the G400 Win2k drivers have REAL issues with SMP, regardless of other hardware.

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[This message has been edited by Gurm (edited 17 January 2000).]

[Travis L. Knodel]

Well, sorry to burst your bubble Gurm, but the Matrox G400 & Voodoo 2 1000 combination is running right now on my Windows 98 partition

I use the Voodoo 2 for Unreal and UT and the G400 on Half Life, Quake II, and Quake III.



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Travis L. Knodel
ICQ 5570732

[Gurm]

Travis, you're lucky in Win9x. Most people can't make their Voodoo2 and their G400 work properly together. Crashes and lockups and whatnot. So kudos there.

The Win2k this is probably:

a. Matrox beta drivers & Voodoo = bad (unknown)

b. Matrox beta drivers & SMP = bad (KNOWN)

- Gurm

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