Reaper_uk

so the monitor doesn't come up anywhere in windows? not in the device manager? display props? so how do you know its using the default monitor drivers?? anyway, try using the add new hardware feature in the control panel.

I've got that same problem, my screen goes all garbled up and i can't see whats going on. This only happens to me occasionally when i start a real audio file or when i put it into full screen mode! i don't think its my voodoo3 overheating becuase its in the desktop and not doing much, aslo i can play games fine. i don't think its the drivers either becuase this has happened on the first offical drivers and the latest retail drivers. so ,aprt from doing the ctrl+alt+del+s thing is there anyway to stop this occuring in the first place??

ok, when i brought my v3 3000 before it was clocked i couldn't really play games in 1024*768 nice a smooth (eg quake2/3,half-life) when i put the clock speed up to 183mhz i noticed a fair amount of change, games now ran nice and smooth and i was happy. thats was with a amd k6-2350 so becuase you have a PII you might getaway with a clock speed of 166mhz, in which case you can get the v3 2000. I would still recommend getting the v3 3000 though. I gather your from the uk so also check out www.dabs.com and www.novatech.co.uk also www.msquared.co.uk (not sure about graphics but you can pick up 64mb sdrampc100 for £40 inc.vat and also a sblive 1024 for the same price!!) anyway thats my thoughts.

I've found that my voodoo3 is working fine in games. In quake3 i don't believe its running any slower than when it was in win98. i can't be certain becuase i didn't do a benchmark in quake3 when i had win98 but, from just looking at the game its seems to running nice a sliky smooth. and anyway, if your still getting like 60fps then whats the big deal?? so maybe the drivers aren't quite as fine tuned as the win98 drivers, YET!! or maybe its something else in your system causing your v3 to go abit slower.

I don't think you've mentioned how much your willing to pay for your card! yes you want the best cost/performance ratio but you idea of a cheap card might differ from other peoples. are you planning on upgrading your system within the next 6months? If you don't play o upgrade your system for a long while then i would go for the voodoo3 3000, it may be about £20-£30 more expensive but once you've clocked it up to max (183mhz is mine) you'll notice the different from the v3 2000 (which can only go to about 166mhz, v3 3000 starting point) If you're thinking of upgrading your computer in the near future either go for the TNT2 ultra or if you can spare it the geforce pro. although the nvidia cards don't hav ethe best drivers out yet they will soon. anyway, thats what i think.

i have win2k on my machine but my friends only have win98 and win98SE. when we set up a LAN, simple lan using NIC cards and BNC cable, my games often suddenly quit whereas the games in 98 don't. Quake3 plays fine, kingpin and revolts both quit. i think i'm using IPX/SPX for kingpin and revolts, don't know about quake3. Is this a win2k/win98 LAN incompatiblity or hardware? i've got an AMDk6-2 500, voodoo3, 128mb RAM. the lan worked fine when i had win98 also so i'm thinking its software not hardware, but is it win2k or the games or abit of both. cheers, ps. hope i didn't babble too much.

i would agree with sweevo about the format. just make sure you backup all your important stuff. if you have win2k and win98 on the same partition at the moment, maybe try putting win2k on a different partition.

ok, a question for all you people. I've got win2k pro finial, voodoo3, amd k6-2 500, 128mb RAM. when i boot up my computer i let it idle windows is using about 55-60mb RAM total (physical and kernel) and after leaving maybe 5 or 6 hours when i close down all my apps and let it idle (so its the same as when i first booted) windows is using about 80mb RAM total. So, if you lot are leaving your computer on for weeks and weeks aren't you running very low on memory resources by now? if not, what am i doing wrong??? i belive i only have the essintial programs running. i'll list them. (when i try to close them by ending task it says "operation could not be completed access denied") System Idle Process, System, smss.exe, winlogon.exe, crss.exe, services.exe, lsass.exe, svchost.exe, spoolsv.exe, svchost.exe (yes twice), regsvc.exe, mstask.exe, winmgmt.exe, explorer.exe, taskmgr.exe. So how do yoo lot manage to keep your systems going for so long without rebooting???? cheers

Which AMd chip are you talking about? k6-2 or 3? Are you running the final verison of win2k? I've got an k6-2 450 running at 500 and it comes up correct at 500. but, i think i remember seeing someone with a similar problem to yours, somewhere. i have no idea where i saw this and it might have even been in win98! but, have a search through the message board anyway, you never know your luck. Do, games and apps think its an 450? (if they didn't they would be running very slowly compared to when you used win98.)

my problem wasn't with quake3, that worked fine. it was the other games that would crash, the ones using D3D, oh well. What is kali? and where can i get it from? cheers

I had this problem when i was using the last offical beta version of the voodoo3 drivers. haven't tried it on the offical ones yet.

i've got an amd k6-2 500 and voodoo3. i don't tend to run many intensive apps at the same time and when i play games i close almost all of them down to improve performance. at the moment i've got 128 sdram pc100 and getting more, the only thign is how much? i've seen afew benchmarks and there isn't much difference in games and apps (on a single cpu) between 192 and 256ram, do people agree with this or should i go for the 256? i no it would make my computer more future proof, but seeing as i'll be needing an athlon when i can afford it and also with RAMBUS memory predicted to come down in price and challenge sdram price wise, is it still worth getting 256 over 192 ram?

hi. ummm, just realised, my original question hasn't been answered. whats causes my system, win2k, to crash from games (back to desktop no errors) when using a simple LAN with my mates who use win98? doesn't happene in quake3 which i'm told uses tcp/ip, so could it be a incompatiblity with ipx/spx between the 2 OS's? if so is there anyway around this problem? (apart from not playing the games)

Hi Look through the board the answer is in here, i've seen it quite aew times. the common solution is to go into dxdiag (from the run optin in start menu) and then override *something* i've forgotten what its called, i thinks its on the last tab. just look for an 'override' button, then select the desired hz. sorry for the vague description but i'm not on my home computer, but if you just look through this board, using the SEARCH feature you should find your answer better explained.

Hi i recently got unreal tourney, and i know loads of people have been complaining about the loading time of it, well a fair few weeks back now but anyway, i owuld just like to say that my load time, well its not there!!! Its takes like about 5secs whereas my quake3 still takes like 20-30secs. so, i'm pleased. By the way, how do you time your fps in quake3? with my and my friends (in the uk) ever since v1.05 (demo) the cg_drawFPS 1 hasn't worked. and also how to you use the demos1 in quake3? cheers

by suddenly quit, i mean for no apparent reason the game will quit back to desktop, no errors or anything. how can i configure a game to use tcp/ip when it i can only see the option to use ipx/spx?

i can't get south park rally to work either but i get the strangest or strangesy probs. I've got to cd-roms drives (well 1 cd, 1 dvd) when i put the south park rally cd in 1 of the drives and start the game it says it can't find the cd in the other drive! so, i put the cd in the other drive and try again, this time it says it can't the cd in teh other drive!! whats going on?? i've also tried a no-cd patch but this isn't compatible with win2k. my setup is an amdk6-2 500, 128mb ram, voodoo3. don't thinks an hardware prob, but i dunno whats going on.

there is any overclocker that works in win2k for the voodoo3, has done since at least RC2. go get it from chameleons site win2kbox.cjb.net its in the files section. very simple to install and it appears in the advanced options of display settings.

Whats all this quake3 loading fsat buisness?? i don't have UT yet but if its longer than quake3 it most be very slow. I have a k6-2 400 o/c500, 128mb SDRAM, voodoo3 o/c 183mhz, 10.gb UDMA33 and quake3 takes forever to load, well 20-30secs. ***** eh! oh well

Has anyone got this game to work in win2k yet? i've tried in both RC2, RC£ and the final version of win2k pro, but it never works. The frontend loads and i get all the way through the options until its starts loading the race and then it just quits back to the desktop without any errors or anythings. This happens in both glide and D3D. I have the newest voodoo3 drivers which seem to be working fine in quake3 (haven't tried other games yet) so is it the game or my drivers that are the problem?? cheers oh and by the way i have searched through the forum and nothing in it.