Tim Bazzinett

Just like Win98 with a win2000 look and feel. Not worth paying for... (Especially when you can play around with BeOS 5 for free.)

Man, try as I might, just cant Det. 5.13 to work. Using the MSDN version of build 2195, and a diamond v770 16 meg TNT2. I installed a clean version of the OS and immediately installed winzip then unzipped the drivers and installed them. By all accounts, they should work. Here is what I am getting though. The drivers appear to be working. (Huh, you might ask. Listen to this...) By looking at that light on the monitor, it goes to a nice green light. But at the screen, all I get is blank. Just a dark black blank screen. In win95, the 5.13 drivers just worked flawlessly. But I dont want to use that OS for opengl. The same goes for version 3.81. But for 3.66 (which I am using now) everything is just perfect. I know, some of you are just saying just to stick with 3.66, but I want to make the 5.13 work perfect. Just reading all of the good posts of 5.13, I must get these to work. Would the fact that I use a voodoo2 card and have that pass thru vga hook up going be a part of it?. All IRQ problems have been previously eliminated, so count that out as a possible cause. As an update to my profile, I now use a 20gig seagate attached to a modified Promise66 turned into a raid controller. ------------------ Celeron 300A@450, Abit BH6, 160 RAM, Maxtor 6.4 UDAM33 HD, 48x Lite-on CDROM Diamond v770 tnt2 16 meg, Voodoo2 8, meg, 17"Daytek

I am using an Abit BH6 without a card in the first pci slot (if you consider the one closest to the AGP slot as slot 1). Like I said, I can get D3D and opengl acceleration off the 3.66 drivers. Just not anything above that version. More info on what I have installed in the PCI slots. I have a diamond mx300 sound card, realtek 10mbs ethernet card, promise "hacked fasttrak66 raid controller", and a Diamond voodoo2 card. All of these cards are no longer conflicting with each other (finally...!). Is there some sort of agp driver needed to get these things working right. AND WHERE THE HELL IS THE OLD SEARCH FEATURE FOR THE BOARD!!? 8)

My 2 centz... Give money to MS? HAHAHA pirated all the way.... I paid $600 to be an MCSE and now that their taking that away from us (unless we renew by dec 31,2001), I just dont see myself giving them any more money. ------------------ Celeron 300A@450, Abit BH6, 160 RAM, Maxtor 6.4 UDAM33 HD, 48x Lite-on CDROM Diamond v770 tnt2 16 meg, Voodoo2 8, meg, 17"Daytek [This message has been edited by Tim Bazzinett (edited 01 April 2000).]

I will have to confess, I still use Win95 for all of my games, just for the mere fact they just run and I dont have to worry about drivers, compatibility, etc.. When I was benchmarking my systems using a win95 vs. win2k Pro format, I did find that Glide and Opengl just run better and smoother in a Win2k enviroment. But that argument could be shot by just saying Nascar 3. Direct3d was much better in Win95 for all games that I use. Until more companies start maturing their drivers, I just stay with win 95 to eliminate any headaches. With a family to support, I just dont have the time to try to fix things anymore (which I would love to do, time providing). Now the dial up access was much different. So much better in Win2k even with DUN 1.3 and tweaked out win95. There is no comparison. (hey, on the crappy lines out here, 3.35 kb/s is way better than 2.8 kb/s. Ping times were better in Win2k. I think the main reason I use Win 95 more now than win2k pro is that stupid humming noise from the diamond mx 300 sound card! And no drivers yet for this, and the default drivers for win2k are just horrible for nascar3. ------------------ Celeron 300A@450, Abit BH6, 160 RAM, Maxtor 6.4 UDAM33 HD, 48x Lite-on CDROM Diamond v770 tnt2 16 meg, Voodoo2 8, meg, 17"Daytek

I am in the same catagory as Foxman98. Bigegg, what level do you use a computer at? What I mean is, do you use a computer at home (games and internet), an office computer(word docs and some office stuff), or do you operated an e-commerce/database/web/file server? Windows2k can be used for all levels and is easy to use. Linux if properly configured, is much better suited at the higher level stuff, such as the e-commerce/web.... Not to say that windows is bad at this. In fact windows2k is better at some things. The debate on which is better seems to be more like a ford vs chevy bit. At home, I primarily STILL use win95 with dual boot to win2k for better internet throughput. The other machine is a Japanese Win2k Pro (for my wife who is from there), that dual boots into Red Hat 6.0. My linux basically serves as a good backup file server in case window goes caput. It is also a good way to learn the basics of UNIX. Yes, Bigegg, you have to read a lot of books to understand Linux, but at the time when I first bought my first computer loaded with win95b, I had to read alot to understand that at the time, as no one I knew had a computer. ------------------ Celeron 300A@450, Abit BH6, 160 RAM, Maxtor 6.4 UDAM33 HD, 20x Lite-on CDROM CL TNT-1 , Voodoo2 8, meg, 17"Daytek

Anyone ever see that movie with Tom Arnold called "The Stupids"? Remember the part where they produced a fatal error by crashing a computer by sticking a photo in the B floppy drive. Then they phoned their dad and told him to look out for the drive bee. Sure enough, one bee flies into his car while he is driving and he crashes his car thinking that the bee would be fatal. This has nothing really to do with this thread. I just wanted to add it.

Here is the link http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2471310,00.html?chkpt=zdnntop Sorry about the spelling of Windows, with an "n". [This message has been edited by Tim Bazzinett (edited 24 March 2000).]

What type of monitor are you using and it is listed as a plug and play type in device manager? Try finding the inf file for you moniter and installing that instead of a plug and play type moniter

Ars technica has the best description on how to do this. I havent tried this with a k6 chipset, but it should work. I followed his directions and found this to work by putting in the value of 0x2. I think you must have SP5 too.

Win 98 and Win2k having [censored]? I guess the ugly baby would be Win ME. Have you tried searching the registry? do a find for taskmon. If you find it in a folder like Run or something, delete that key. Should work for you.

Glide all the way on an 8 meg voodoo2. Runs perfect. Direct3d doesnt look as that much different when running on a TNT 1 card. Maybe a little better, but stutters more than the glide version. To get a FPS count, at the intro movie, hit (really hard!) the ~ key and type in timedemo 1 and then bash the enter key. After a few cylcle, beat the ~ key to bring the menu down again to see you FPS rates for the city intro movie. >

Kind of a weird answer, but get another hard drive and more memory. Move the page file to the other hard drive and make sure it is on a different IDE controller. Sound easy, doesnt it. Sure cost alot though.

You are talking about Monaco Gran prix RS2 correct. Same here, no go.

My 2 cents on the subject since somebody did bring up the far east. There are people over there who can never afford the high prices of MS software, so it is pirated. Most of them (99%) are happy to pay the $5-10 for a copy. Ever been to Sim Lim Square in Singapore? Man, what a place! I should have picked up more that just a few games while I was there. But, these places are geared towards those who can't afford the software. Even in America, with the house and gas prices going higher than ever, you have to start cutting corners somewhere. Most of you who do, I could care less if you are doing it. You just might have good reasons. One could be a guy who just loves computers, but is fanacially burdened by a house payment, a large number of children on a single income and bills up the yin-yang. I do know that feeling very well (except I just have one child). PS, got my copy by the MCSE certs, just the 120-day versions though [This message has been edited by Tim Bazzinett (edited 04 March 2000).]

Driver version 5.12.1.8000. Some games like the UT demo menu screen is all jacked up but once in the game, it is Ok. I have had good success with Rally Chanpionship 2000 demo. No problems yet. Anyone else getting good success yet with savage 4?

Here you go... IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL The IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error is caused by a buggy device driver or an actual hardware conflict. If you’ve recently added new hardware to your system, try removing it and see if the error goes away. Likewise, if you’ve recently loaded a new device driver, you might try using ERD Commander Professional Edition, by Winternals Software, to temporarily disable the new driver and see if the problem goes away.

Microsoft should be a monopoly? You mean overprice their products so high you have no where else to go. That is the way of business. And you know Bill Gates just wants your money. It is sad that the industry standard has chosen to be MS. But you have to have it with Office 97 to have some sort of standard of passing information or business documents. I truly like MS win95 just for compatibilty of my games. Win 2k offers offers almost the same compatibility, even though most manufacturers have sh***y drivers for it. But now that I have used Linux for a while now, I kind of like it. It is free (remember IE4.0 to kill netscape), and many programs have been written for it. Hardly ever crashes. I can see it in the future as a successful competitor to MS (like a thorn in the side like competitor, not on a equal level). But with linux and the new BeOS being released as free, it is good for the pricing of MS products. Hopefully, we should see their prices come down. In the meantime, give these free OS's a try. If you have some spare room on a hard drive, use it for these operating systems. It is you people saying "hey, this new OS is good and stable and it is free", that will ring in the ears of MS. If you continually choose MS like the blue people in the Apple commercial of 1984, you can expect to pay $600 for a speadsheet program. Or pirate it. Which brings me to another point about piracy: One hundred billion dollars and he is saying the he is losing money because of piracy. Wahhhhhhh, big baby. 99.9999% of us will never see a billion in our wallets, let alone $100,000,000,000

Here is the solution. You dont have to edit or delete anything... yet. Get yourself a startup disk from the add/remove programs area of the control panel . Make the startup disk. Reboot the computer and use the startup disk to boot with. At the a: prompt type "sys c:" and then hit enter!!!! Problem fixed! The deleting part is deleting the boot.ini, ntldr file, and the ntdetect file on the c: root.

I have the same modem as yours and the installation put drivers in for me and they work with no problem.

Thanks for the replies. At least I am not alone on this one. Never hear it when I boot to Win95

Forgive me if I did offended you with the "venting" statement. I did not mean to. But at least creative is trying to produce some drivers for their cards. When you look at some of the others out there, creative actually looks good. Take Diamond and the savage 3 and 4 cards. Near total abandonment. Rendition gave up with thier win95 drivers production in 1999. There are many others too. I think in time we shall see better drivers for the TNT from creative, even though they will be repackaged and slightly altered reference drivers from redition. And I do agree with you on that the 3.78 version should have been released and not the older 3.76.

Eskreme, I have always enjoyed your posts as you seem to vent in a humorous manner. But for the driver situation, here is something to ponder. Rendition Win2k drivers. Think it'll ever happen with good D3d and OGL acceleration? Never in a million years. They are still releasing BETA win95 drivers!!!!!

I know this is not really a win2k issue post, but I figured some of you might know where I can get an old V2 based card for around 50 dollars, if not less.

Just a quick add to this post... For printing, make sure you use an HP to print web pages. I have found that canon printer will not use the Kanji fonts but the HP printers have no problem