neurobash

Hey all, I seem to be having a problem with a newly installed HighPoint HPT-370 based PCI RAID controller. After installing the card and connecting two drives as masters on each controller (two 43GB 7200 RPM IBM drives) on a RAID 0 array, I have noticed an intermittent "stuttering" while there is disk activity. By "stuttering" I mean the mouse movement becomes very slow and erratic, and audio pops and distorts. I also have a 30GB 7200 IBM drive connected to the primary IDE controller on the motherboard which is being used for the pagefile (among other things). I have switched PCI slots, disabled the motherboard IDE controller, connected both drives to a single controller on the RAID card, and moved the pagefile to the RAID array - none of this however has solved the problem. I have also tried using several BIOS for the card available at highpoints site (including the new beta), as well as several different driver revisions and still nothing. Below is my setup ... FIC AD11 (AMD 761) Motherboard 256MB PC2100 DDR-SDRAM (Crucial) Asus V7700 (32MB GeForce2) Creative SoundBlaster Live! Platinum D-Link DFE-530TX NIC 2x 43GB 7200RPM IBM HDD's 1x 30GB 7200RPM IBM HDD Plextor 12/10/32 CD-RW Toshiba 8x DVD-ROM Windows 2000 SP-2 All hardware has the latest (non-beta) drivers/BIOS installed, and this is a clean install of Win2k. I plan on removing the Live board and enabling the on-board audio to see if that makes any difference. Of course by removing the RAID card and running the two 43GB drives independently this problem disappears. If anyone else has experienced this problem, or has any suggestions I'd love to hear 'em.

Thanks to all who provided feedback, I appreciate it. I've got the 1.3b drivers installed now and that seems to have taken care of the problem. Hopefully Highpoint will take care of this issue soon.. but I'm not holding my breath.

Hey all, have a strange problem here maybe someone could shed some light on. For some reason all of my icons are being displayed in 16 colors. The desktop color depth is set at 32-bit color, and "Display icons using all possible colors" is checked. I have also used Microangelo to reset the icon color depth and rebuild the icon cache. Still I'm stuck with 16 color icons. I'm running Win2k Pro on a 3dfx Voodoo3. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. It's driving me nuts..

I have the following systems... PII 233MHz, 96MB RAM, Voodoo3 2000 Athlon 700MHz, 256MB RAM, GeForce2 Both systems are running Win2k Pro, and the Athlon system was dual-booting WinMe at the time. The game installed and ran fine on the PII system, but the Athlon system experienced all of the problems previously mentioned in this thread. Sooo, I copied the game from the PII to the Athlon, imported the reg settings and it seemed to play fine for a long while. Now that I'm at the Vienna stage, the game crashes when I attempt to leave through the East Gate. BTW, the game installed fine in WinMe, but crashed instantly when attempting to play it. What does all this mean? Hell if I know.. Guess 2k has some problem with the Athlon er the GeForce. Go figure...

Installing the 5.32 beta Detonator 2 drivers seems to have corrected all of the mouse cursor issues for me. [This message has been edited by neurobash (edited 16 July 2000).]

I'm running UT with the 420 patch on Win2k Pro, with an Athlon 700MHz and a GeForce2 with no probs. Infact it seems to run better in 2k than it did in 98. It ran like hell before I installed the 420 patch, but that seems to have taken care of it for me...

I've been playing Ground Control on Win2k Pro without a problem. Well.. I take that back, there is an annoying sound glitch. The sound on pre-mission breifings stutters badly, as does the music. However the in-game voice and sound effects work fine. I'm sure these problems have to do with Creative's ****ty liveware drivers. BTW, it will not detect DX7 - you should choose to continue without installing it.

doh! my bad, not sure how I missed that. *sigh*

Are you having problems installing it or playing it? If you are having problems installing it try renaming the file gimme.dll to gimme.dll.bak located in your game directory.