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More info?)
On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 11:58:36 GMT, Falkentyne <no@spam.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 06:22:12 GMT, john.dsl@verizon.net (John Lewis)
>wrote:
>
>>On 31 Aug 2004 20:19:12 -0500, J Golden <prettygoldenboy@yahoo.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>The latest driver for the Geforce 4 card for Win98 is so unstable that
>>>I've gone back to the previous version. Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, Matt
>>>Hoffman, and several other games that play fine with the previous
>>>driver will not run with the newest driver.
>>
>>
>>Driver version number(s) please. Your total lack of information
>>on your system, peripherals and driver versions is deafening.
>>Anyway, why are you still using Win 98 ?
>>
>>You are not a troll, I presume ? Trolls have a classic
>>non-information posture.
>>
>>John Lewis
>>
>>
>
>It's the latest win9x driver on guru3d, whql'd. driver 61.76 i THINK.
>Don't remember the exact version
>
>And no,he's NOT Trolling Many games are unstable, and that, COMBINED
>with the ddhelp termination+system freeze bug (crash error existed
>since driver 6.08 (no freeze), system freeze+crash error existed since
>the first 40.xx driver) makes the driver all but unusuable. Read my
>post, and stop flaming. Are you some teenager or something? Jeez...
>
>
Now I have some information, ignoring other aspects of your
reply.....
Never heard of driver 6.08. Must be something totally out
of the ark.
However, on my son's PC, I have run WinME with drivers up
to 45.23 on a GF3 Ti200 on older Win/DirectX
and DOS games ( with appropriate DOS start-up hooks )
with none of the problems you are mentioning. ( Audio card
SBLive! and always with the latest audio drivers. )
It does not seem to make sense that you are trying to use
61.76 on such an old OS and antique games. Like lying
on a bed of nails just for fun. Maybe you should try a full
re-install of Win98, w98 motherboard drivers, Window
Update and 45.23.......making doubly sure that your
sound-card has drivers also compatible with the older games.
I certainly would recommend 2 machines, one dedicated
to running the older games, with your GF3 or 4,
a SB16 or SB Live! (with DOS-emulation drivers), Win 98
( or Me) and an appropriately old video driver.
My "old" machine dedicated to news, e-mail, old-games,
has a Voodoo 5 5500, SBLive!, Celeron 1100, Win Me.
Works like a champ on Glide, early Direct-X and DOS
games. My "new" machine is used for my business
and productivity applications and latest games. FX5900,
Audigy2, P4-3.0, Win XP Pro. I use a handy-dandy
KVM switch between the 2 machines.
John Lewis
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