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The problem is that NT4 only supports DirectX 3 and since that predates DirectSound no DirectSound compatible drivers were eve made for it. As a result games that use DirectSound will either have laggy sound (I noticed this in Quake 2 when I had it installed under NT4) or as you've described, no sound at all.

OK I think I may have discovered something that might be useful. On a hunch I installed Rise of the Triad and tried to get a LAN game running through that. It bombed out but this time with the much more useful error message "IPX protocol not detected." Now I know for a fact that I do have IPX installed since I set the Frame Type from Windows' clumsy "Auto Detect" to "Ethernet 802.3" to prevent problems with Windows negotioating incorrect frame types. Given that StarCraft (admittedly a Windows game) can see the IPX protocol fine something is screwy here. Any idea what?

Due to the NT HAL preventing direct hardware access I never expected DOS games to work, if you do you are going to be sadly disappointed. With that in mind I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to get things like Duke Nukem 3D (and probably other build engine games too but I haven't tested this fully yet) and Rise of the Triad to work with full sound.

Quote: Are you using the final release (2600) or a beta? I'm using the final release and guess what? It crashed. It doesn't seem to be limited just to the Chocobo racing either but rather the subgames in general. I went to the Wonder Square and tried the Snowboard game and it crashed there too. I recall reading a similar issue affected 2k in the NTCompatible game lists. Still there was someone who said that they played through the entire game (subgames included since from memory, you can't avoid any of them) under XP so I'm probably missing something here...

No problem at all, I'll get back to you with the results ASAP.

I hate the 9x OS' with a passion, looking for a way out from them ever since I first experienced NT4. Before I was finally able to get rid of them with my upgrade to XP my machine dual booted between Win2k and WinME. WinME was required to get Final Fantasy VII working because everything I tried, even soultions posted here, failed to get it going under 2k. Anyway, ME was fine and dandy until I found that when I was browsing network shares the thing would hang after a certain amount of time. Killing the window was easy but in true Win9x fashion killing one Explorer windows kills them all including the main shell resulting in all you systray programs hanging about in RAM doing nothing. This was even after I'd told ME to "Launch folder windows in a seperate process" mind you. Anyway I diagnosed a buggy LAN card driver and downloaded the lates ME drivers of the Web. Every time I tried to install them resulted in the driver update wizard crashing, every single time. Given that I was using 2k far more than 9x at that stage I decided to leave it be until I got XP. Now with XP I'm finally free of Win9x OS' and all I can say is: Good riddance to bad rubbish.

I have FF7 installed on WinXP (in fact that was my justification for upgrading to XP in the first place) but I'm not up to the chocobo races yet. If someone could send me a savegame (my ICQ# is in my profile) I could probably test it for you but even if it works for me it may or may not work for you...

When I had the 21.81 drivers I kept getting wierd kernel memory leaks which for some reason would kill my Direct3D functionality entirely: http://www.netwerkin.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=000134 Since installing the 21.85s the problems have evaporated.

Maybe I'm running the wrong games but I've had absolutely no trouble getting games to run under XP. Even Final Fantasy VII ran fine first time. Compared to the trouble I had to go to to get some titles running under Windows 2000 it was sheer bliss.

I had nothing but trouble with the 21.81s on my Diamond Viper V550 Riva TNT PCI: http://www.netwerkin.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=000134 But since I installed the 21.85s everythings appears to be fine.

Quote: -------------------------------- COMMIT Device Driver Version 1.3 -------------------------------- o 2 Player Game o Network Game NetBIOS detected - local address: 00606765ad02 Registering NetBIOS name as "GAME882B" - ok, id#2 Attempting to find all players for a 2 player network game. Press ESC to exit. Looking for network players.SendNBPacket: 0xff I'm getting this same problem as well. Can anyone help? I'd really like to get a network game of Duke running and I really don't want to have to install Win98 on my machine again to do it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Quote: Hey, Its the VIA southbridge that causes all the problems, just remember that. I'd be cautious and wait a little for the AMD 761 Chipset boards to come out with both north and south just for compatibility reasons as the VIA rigs have problems after problems and if you're going DDR the AMD setup is probably perfect for you. I currently own the KT7A-Raid, I like it but for someone who isn't willing to deal with too much tweaking and configuring the AMD route is the way to go. Just my 2cents PrinceAli0 From what I've read its the Via Northbridges that are the catalyst for all the troubles with both the SBLive! and the 686b afaik no AMD761 boards using the 686b are affected.

I have a Diamond Viper V550 vdeo card based on the original Riva TNT chipset and I can't seem to get Direct3D hardware acceleration to work in WinXP. The closest I can get is with the supplied drivers but I have to laod DxDiag, disable D3D, reboot, reenable it and it will work but only until the next reboot. I've tried the nVidia detonator 12.41 drivers and even the beta 14.40 drivers but to no avail. Any help will be appreciated.

Mines a PCI card, although I honestly don't see that as being the problem. nVidia have stopped including TNT drivers in the WHQL certified package forcing me the use the unvertified drivers but if XP locked down on them then it wouldn't work in 2D, DirectDraw or OpenGL so I have no clue wtf is going on. I might wait and try those 20.80's though and see if that helps.