Damien Green

Well the driver guide at http://www.driverguide.com is a good place to start. I'm afraid you're not being very specific, perhaps if you describe what the device does, someone might stand a better chance of helping you.

I can understand what you're saying, but I also agree with the others that the main reason we're here is to pick up various bits of info that might help us solve our own problems. While I certainly don't condone software piracy (I own both NT4.0 and 2000 PRO Upgrade completely legitimately), I'm afraid it's an issue thats very much a part of the modern computer society, and it's not going to go away. Of course, some people writing to this forum might be reporting problems they're having with pirated software - they're certainly aren't going to admit it, but at the end of the day, these are the sorts of people who wouldn't pay for the software anyway, so companies such as Microsoft are probably not loosing out as much as you think(their profits certainly don't reflect huge losses). Indeed you could say that the extra input is very helpful, and the more people we have writing to this forum, the greater the diversity of issues covered. Personally I only see piracy as a real issue when it affects the smaller software developer, people who write cheap commercial software, programs like Thematic, Magic Engine (PC Engine Emulator). I always ensure that I pay the registration fee for the full version, it's more a thanks to the author for their hard work. It makes me angry to see various websites providing links to the full versions of pirated unpaid for software.

If you came here first - go to the Hardware section - I have just posted a solution.

No problem. Currently, as you have correctly noticed, there are no creative drivers for the DXR3 card. However, the card is really a rebadged Sigma Designs Hollywood Plus. TO get the card to work, you need to do the following: 1. Go to the Sigma Designs website (http://www.sigmadesigns.com). From here download the latest beta drivers for the hollywood plus board. (you'll find them under the hyperlink that discusses Windows 2000 drivers on the home page). Just download the drivers - no the DVD player application - it won't work! 2. Go to the Creative labs webpage (http://www.creativelabs.com) and download the latest DXR3 drivers for Windows NT. 3. Install the Sigma designs drivers. DO this by unpacing the driver zip file into a directory on you hand disk, then go into device manager, select the DXR3 card (it will show up as unknown multimedia card or something like that, You'll most likely notice it by the yellow exclamation mark next to it.) and then point Windows in the direction of the directory containing the unpacked drivers you just made. 4. Unpack the NT application and Drivers for the DXR3 card. Install the DXR3 player application by running setup as normal. The player should install without hitch - however, if it complains about being unable to detect the card, you'll have to go back to the Creative site, download the DXR2 drivers for NT and install just the DXR2 application. The DXR2 application doesn't check for the presence of a card. After this, you should be able to install the DXR3 application - it will detect the DXR2 software, and assume that because of this you have a DXR3 card - strange but true. Once the application is installed, tell Windows that you don't want to reboot. 5. Finally run the program that installs the NT drivers for the DXR3 decoder card. They won't actually work, and won't even install because of the presence of the Hollywood Plus (you won't see any messages to that effect) - however, these drivers make some alterarions to the regisatry that allow the Creative DXR3 player to fuinction without frequent crashes and choppy sound. 6. Reboot. 7. Congratulations - if all has gone well, you should be able to use your DXR3 card. If you have any problems, this procedure can be found at http://www.driverguide.com in the creative labs driver discussion board.

I'm a very long term Matrox user - Milennium- Milennium II, G200, G400 Max, so it will come as little suprise that I would reccommend that you use a G400 or one of its varients under Win 2K. In fact I find (as do many others) that the Matrox drivers are some of the most stable, running most applications and games under both direct3d and open gl.

Installing Quake 2 under Win 2000 - no problem. Go into control panel, select Regional options. Ensure that the local location under the general tab is set to which ever country your living in - or that this setting matches the location where you purchased Quake 2 (note to ensure that you don't run into various problems with conflicting regions etc. this should be the same as where you live, but if you bought abroad well....) Next click the Input Locals tab. Check that there is only one keyboard input language installed (again matching where you got your copy of Quake 2)- delete any others. Ensure that this is set to default input language - click on set as default. Finally click on ok. Reboot when prompted. Quake 2 should now install without hitch