askii64

Well, here I am again talking about DirectX... I downloaded a (not so) little file from http://www.supportweb.dk/download/microsoft/nt4/directx5/ today called nt4dx6.zip and it is DirectX 6 for NT, just like it says. It is probably alot like the DX5 hack, but I've yet to check it out so I don't know yet. Here's a copy of the readme.txt file in the zip file: Read and understand this before you patch your system : ---------------------------------------------------------- MAKE A BACKUP BEFORE YOU INSTALL THIS DIRECTX 6.0 UPDATE ! ---------------------------------------------------------- This is a UNofficial version of DirectX 6 to Windows NT 4.0. The latest official version from Microsoft is DirectX 3.0 (included in Service Pack 3, SP3). The creator of the DX6 version is not known - but hey - it works like a charm. - Unzip nt4dx6.zip - Run DirectX60nt.exe - Game until you drop ;-) Cheers... Check it out if you want.

you must be thinking of the Kyro3, which is now supposed to be released in June 2002. The Kyro2 is out, and has been for a while now.

*mumbles on about evil nVidia and destroying 3dfx etc. blah blah* well I still have my Voodoo5 and I like it. It plays all my games just fine. If you're in a strange mood and want a non-standard videocard that's really good get a Kyro2 from Hercules.

Well, after trying to use my Voodoo5 under NT4, I got annoyed with the 1.00.00 beta offered by 3dfx, and went ahead and created my own driver set for it. If you have a Voodoo5 and NT4, go download it from http://voodoodriver.b0x.com/dvdriver.html and tell me what you think. This is the hopefully "stable" release of my new NT4 driver sets, so it should work with everything that the 1.04.00 driver did. There's no new options in 3dfx tools, but I used the Glide and OpenGL files from the 1.04.00 driver set for Win9x to hopefully fix any bugs in the beta(which the opengl driver had many of). Have fun!

hey, I got the files back online, for anybody who might need them. check out http://ice.prohosting.com/dvsite/project_voodoodv.html to d/l the driver if you need it!

please notice that the driver page no longer works, they deleted my website for having content that "violates their TOS" which it didn't. They will not respond to emails or anything else, including postal mail about this matter.

I guess nobody uses a Voodoo5 with NT4. Oh well, I'm still going to make another couple of driver sets.

I'm having a problem installing NT4. I have Windows 98 installed to a 2.5 gig fat32 partition, and I have 600 megs of empty space I'd like to put NT on(just going to experiment so I don't need to much space), but I have a problem. Everytime I install it, and it gets done, and reboots the computer, instead of starting to boot NT, it just sits there. With a blinking cursor. As if there was no OS present or something. I can boot from a floppy and see all the files for NT on it's partition, and I can set my other one active and reboot into '98, but I can't boot into NT. I've tried "hiding" my '98 partition so NT wouldn't get confused. I've tried letting it make a partition, and I've tried making one in partition magic for it. I've tried setting the unformatted partition to active so it won't try to write to the '98 partition. But it seems no matter what I do I can't install NT while I have '98 installed. Any other solutions before I just get rid of '98 and install it again after I put NT on here(I really don't want to have to do that)?

thanks for the info...

I got it working. Just used another hard drive to install it on. Now everything is fine.

the guy who originally hex edited the glide files to make them work is called "hujer hoe". So now everybody calls the drivers the "hoe drivers". lol

how about I use Partition Magic or something like it to move my 2.5 gig partition to the end of the drive, then make a new one at the beginning. That should do it, right?

Maybe I could install it to another small hard drive, update it, and then copy an image of the partition over to my main hard drive? Would that work?

I installed it, but after installing the 5.0 version, just so incase it didn't have all the files. I went into the DX control panel and it proudly states that I have DirectX version -1. Yes, negative one. It works OK for now, haven't noticed any problems(yet). I'll report back after trying a few games.

I was surfing the internet a few days ago looking for the Direct X 5 patch for NT, and I came across this page: http://www.cnunix.com/ftp/NT4.0/directX/ and it has a file called directx6.0.exe in it. Could this be some not well known patch for NT, or something else? I have yet to try downloading it, since I don't want to mess up my computer, so I am wondering if anyone else has come across it too, and what it does. Thanks for any info.