DosFreak

heh. Will the Audigy 2 have more frequent driver updates? Not BSOD my system when I install drivers? Be just as efforless as the KX drivers? Will the features advertised actually work? Bah! Creative is about as bad as ATI was 2 years ago....

My plan to get rid of floppies? Tear out the floppy in your case. Buy a USB floppy drive. Verify that mobo bios can boot from USB. Your saved!

If your planning on sticking with only 64m of ram. Definetly DO NOT. Stick Windows XP on there....or 2K for that matter. Get some more RAM and stick 2K on there but definetly not XP with that slow processor.

No. We are commenting on the fact that it may be BAD ram. Not that it wasn't enough ram. Use this: http://www.memtest86.com/

Received: 2 PCI USB 2 Cards. Some USB2/IEE1394 Cables ME-320 USB2/IEE1394 External Enclosure Also order 2 Intel 1G NICS for my 2 PC's and a USB 2 PCMCIA card.

Yep, Most likely is the ram.

Everquest is not an RPG...at least not in my book. FF is not my cup of tea. (Well 7+ is not anyway) NWN is but poorly. Seems like they dumbed it down: No real party. Doesn't stick to alot of D&D Rules. Single player is not as good as the BG series. The Fallout series is one of my favorites.

Okay, Some Video cards (such as the ATI ones) will run VESA much better under NT OS's than other video cards (such as NVIDIA). In the case of Daggerfall the GAME runs fine but the INSTALLER needs to access VESA for some weird reason. Now with ATI cards the installer pops up just fine but with NVIDIA cards it does not. So if you own an NVIDIA (or other) card then search google for FASTVID. Download FASTVID and extract it. Run a FULL SCREEN command prompt Run FastVID and say NO to all the options except the last one. Now run the Daggerfall installer. You should then be able to access the installer. For SFX use VDMSOUND.

What a sad sad person. Quote: Quote: Suddenly, we see tons of posts consisting of nothing but smileys...everyone rushing to beat clutch to that elusive 4000 mark! AndyF i try to at least make a comment or something i am not a big fan of smileys in fact i don't think i have a single post that is just a smiley

http://www.advsys.net/ken/build.htm Quote: Tired of 320x200? With this, you can play in hi-res again I bought a new computer a few days ago. It came with Windows XP. That means a lot of my old programs that used to work on Windows 98 don't work anymore. I didn't want to reinstall Windows 98. Here's the problem with VESA 2.0 running under Windows NT/2K/XP: The video card BIOS says the linear framebuffer exists, but when DOS applications try to set this video mode, the application exits with this error message: "DPMI_mapPhysicalToLinear() failed!". Most people never see this message because the screen is either black or jumbled at this point. I don't know why the call fails, but I have a workaround: NOLFB.ZIP (1351 bytes) A TSR that patches the VESA driver by fooling DOS programs into thinking the VESA 2.0 linear framebuffer modes aren't supported. Run this in the CMD prompt before you start your DOS application. You can type "MEM /C" to see if it installed in memory correctly. To remove it from memory, just type 'exit' from the CMD shell. Source code is included! Please note: I've only tested this on my own computer! NOTES: NOLFB will only fix DOS VESA 2.0 applications that have a fallback code that supports the segmented video modes (from VESA 1.2). If the application does not run in segmented video mode, then it will exit with a visible error message instead of a black or jumbled screen. NOLFB does not add any new VESA modes to your computer! In fact it does just the opposite. If your graphics adapter does not support standard VESA modes (such as 640x480x8) in any DOS application, then this patch will not help you. Here's a list of programs I've tested that are fixed by this patch (assuming the above conditions are true): Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, most of the Build engine tools, 2Draw, and some demos on my website that are linked to my DOS VESA code: "VES2.H". NOLFB will not do much in Win95/98/ME other than cause the framerates to decrease in games. Use at your own risk! http://www.advsys.net/ken/nolfb.zip

There is no sound for DOS games in Windows 2000 because there is no emulated sound card. The DOS game does not "see" a sound card. To get it to "see" a sound card you have to use VDMSound to "emulate" a soundcard for the game. The reason your game works when you set it to "NO SOUND" is because the game does not error out when it goes looking for a sound card that is not there. If you use VDMSound and setup the configuration for sound properly then the game WILL work. Download this: ftp://ftp.westwood.com/pub/ccgold/CCGOLDXPPATCH.ZIP for the Windows ver of C&C and apply it to your version. The Windows ver should work fine then....and please ALWAYS look for the latest patch for your game before playing them!

Look in your UT 2003 SYSTEM directory and run BENCHMARK.EXE It seems that Benchmark.exe set's your UT2003.ini to defaults, so modifying it or changing your UT2003 settings will have no affect. (Still testing this) Obviously running the batch files or until someone write's a better benchmark GUI would be preferable but running Benchmark.exe is the simplest solution for now. UT 2003 Demo D3D BENCHMARK.EXE 640X480 Flyby: 152.320267 Botmatch: 49.975044 800x600 Flyby: 152.435501 Botmatch: 49.959011 1024X768 Flyby: 151.934494 Botmatch: 49.901531 1280X960 Flyby: 142.084518 Botmatch: 49.754349 1600X1200 Flyby: 86.616623 Botmatch: 46.055515 ---------------------------------- 1600X1200 16x Ansio Flyby: 56.752377 Botmatch:38.702225 6x AA Flyby: 47.968014 Botmatch: 24.337336 16x Ansio & 6x AA Flyby: 37.581856 Botmatch: 20.769403

ACT 2.6 requires SP3 ACT 1.5 does not Only diff between 1.5 & 2.6 is unification of 2K/XP ACT into v2.6 and some documentation fixes. Oh and the exporting of fixes may not be compatible across both OS's. The ACT does not increase compatibility just by installing. You have to apply the fixes yourself.(The earlier ACT's did come packaged with some Application Compatibility fixes....1.5 may have some but I doubt it.)

I think Phillip needs to clean up the user list!

Hmm, is there a command.com in the program directory? If so delete it. DO NOT delete the command.com in the WINNT/system32 directory. Also if that does not work then download the trial of Connectix Virtual PC from www.connectix.com and try it.

After a certain amount of time you become telepathic in this field.....Muahahahahhaha.

Hmm, *nix is probly pushing the system harder. Bench at 320* and I'm sure you'll be suprised. 8)

Odd, it's like the program is missing some files... DO you see any DOS4GW/DPMI messages when you start the program? Is there any DPMI/DOS4GW executables in the program directory?

When is Symantec every going to actually improve their Corporate ver? The Console REALLY needs an overhaul. Sigh. Good thing I don't pay for the corporate ver and my work does.

What are you comparing this extra speed to? In other words what's your baseline?

The "English" ver of XP Pro so you understand why it doesn't say the same language? Do you mean that you do NOT understand why? Is your copy of XP Pro the US ver? Is your copy of XP Pro the 32bit ver? Is your copy of SP1 the US ver? Is your copy of SP1 the 32bit ver?

Updated the Guide. Add the XP SP1 boot disks and specified that the guide is currently only for 32bit versions of Windows.

http://www.apple.com/powermac/ Quote: No matter which speed you choose, you’ll get the staggering performance of dual processors at either 867MHz, 1GHz or 1.25GHz, which adds 500MHz to the previous generation of Power Mac G4 WTF is double data rate SDRAM?

Yep, the patch has been out for more than a year.....