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Travis Charbeneau 3421 Hanover Ave., Richmond, VA 23221
travis@charbeneau.net phone: 804 358 0417
www.richmonder.com/charbeneau
Hi, Default,
Thanks again for the speedy reply! I'm sorry if I mis-wrote: my
TNT also runs just one or the other -- TV or VGA monitor. But
with the 45.23 drivers at any rate, it refused to switch to the
TV at all -- both screens went black and, after the requisite 15
seconds, the VGA came back on. Again, this was running the
composite out. I don't expect S-Video would be any different,
but I may give it a try when I get the beast downstairs and
properly plugged into an S-Video input.
As for the games refusing to display even on the VGA, where 45.23
properly displayed Desktop, IE6, etc., there were no error
messages. Red Baron 3D works, running in DirectDraw (I sob for my
pair of Voodoo2s SLI sitting useless now in the motherboard. No
TV out for them.) On Microprose European Air War, audio came on,
the screen went black, and only subtitles were shown,
accumulating on top of one another until I escaped to the main
game screen (which invariably displays, even if the game sequence
itself doesn't). I could quit from there. Jane's WW2 Fighters
gave no audio, screen went white, then blue. I was able to Alt-F4
to freedom from that. Jane's USAF never loaded past its
"Initializing" screen, locked and required a cold boot/reset.
As you say, TVs don't make good PC monitors, and I may be looking
for improvements that just can't be had. The TV downstairs is a
42" HDTV (Sony LCD projection), which will most likely only make
the 800X600 max output of the TNT look worse than it does on the
27" CRT Sony I'm working with at present -- unless the S-Video
makes some sort of dramatic impact.
Failing a new video card (and I'm still paying for the new
computer that replaced the Pentium2 with the TNT), true beauty is
not to be expected. And a new card might well demand DirectX9,
which is not uninstallable for Win98, in so far as I have
researched it. (Again, currently I'm running DX6 on the old
machine. I know MS claims backward compatibility on DirectX, but
if it messes the sims, or freaks the equally old Montego II sound
card, -- visions of re-installing Win98-SE loom, etc.)
I suppose if you want to run legacy sims you need a legacy
system, like the good old Mattel "Intellivision" sitting wrapped
in plastic down in the basement. Nonetheless, I'll try the 56.64
drivers. One never knows.
In any case, I really appreciate your informed feedback on this
quest. You've been more than generous. If you want to know how
the quest ended, please send me your email address to mine above?
Many thanks in any case,
Travis
"default" <defaultname@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:fDdxc.706180$Ig.655830@pd7tw2no...
> My TNT cards can run with the TV output on or the VGA output,
not both at
> the same time. You may be able to use TVTool to change this,
but the normal
> driver function is one or the other with these cards.
>
>
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win9x_56.64
> or full the full fileset by ftp:
> ftp://download.nvidia.com/Windows/56.64/
>
> is where to get the 56.64 driver. You will need to edit the
..inf file in
> the same way. You may want to install DirectX 9.0b if you
haven't already.
>
> Only certain video modes can be represented on the TV output.
You didn't
> say which flight-sims don't work or what the error messages
were. There is
> probably a solution but you will have to look deeper to find
it. I have
> used mine with Microsoft FlightSim 95, 98, 2000, 2002. TV's
really don't
> make good computer monitors however anyway.
>
>
> "Travis" <travis_at_charbeneau_dot_net> wrote in message
> news:zcednYhh5qRvxFjdRVn-sw@comcast.com...
> > Dear Default,
> >
> > Wow, thanks for the speedy reply! And I really appreciate
your
> > expertise here.
> >
> > You got it dead right on editing the inf file. The install
> > proceeded perfectly.
> >
> > Alas, however, nothing came out the composite output, and I
can't
> > try the S-Video output until I get this Pentium2 downstairs
to
> > the new flat panel TV. Right now it's feeding an older Sony
TV up
> > in my office with just composite in. I would expect both to
be
> > active, though.
> >
> > As critically, even running to its 17" CRT monitor, the P2
with
> > the 45.23 drivers it won't run three of the six legacy flight
> > sims I collected in the late '90s -- a collection that
stopped
> > with DirectX6. Maybe Nvidia's 45.23_win9x_english.exe doesn't
> > want to run this old stuff to TV *or* VGA.
> >
> > But -- you mention "The current Win95,98,SE,ME driver is
56.64."
> >
> > What and where would that be? Nvidia seems to stop at the
45.23
> > (in XP and 98 flavors) you helped me to edit. I managed to
find a
> > "60.86_9x_MR.exe" at Guru3D, which you also mentioned. (They
had
> > an XP version as well.) But "56.64" I don't recognize from my
> > travels. Can you direct me?
> >
> > Of course, and again, it may be that expecting updated
drivers to
> > run DX6-era flight sims is expecting too much? I defer to
you.
> > I'm happy to try anything while I'm configuring this old
system
> > across the room from my new Dell, and before I get someone to
get
> > it downstairs for me for the big showdown. (I'm disabled with
> > arthritis and don't do much heavy lifting.)
> >
> > Many thanks again,
> >
> > Travis
>
>
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