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Gallion and Vorpal Please Help: Voodoo 5 problem


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Hello to all from a newbie! It's been less than one week and oh boy am I having fun...

I love this game but I'm experiencing a serious problem with restoring saved games. When I select a saved game from the restore menu, I get a black screen and the computer locks up. Only a reboot will bring it back to life.

It does look like it's a problem with my Voodoo 5 5500 AGP card not wanted to sync back with 3D after going into a 2D screen. The same thing happens if I go to the config screen from the bridge, then hit either abort or save.

This EXACT issue was discussed in an old thread I found here:

http://www.3000ad.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000482.html

It looks like it was either never resolved, or the answer was never posted. Gallion and Vorpal, did you guys ever succeed in finding a fix?

My system specs:

Microstar K7 motherboard, VIA chipset

Athlon 1 GHz THunderbird

256 MB RAM

SoundBlaster Live!

30 GB hard drive, ATA 66

My workaround for now is to play and save normally. When I want to restore a game, I restart the game in software mode, restore the desired game, then quit and restart in 3DFX mode. Then I can hit continue and all is well. Obviously this is inconvenient.

Any and all help or advice is much appreciated.

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Marco Ramius

Cmdr., GCV-Catalina

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My workaround for now is to play and save normally. When I want to restore a game, I restart the game in software mode, restore the desired game, then quit and restart in 3DFX mode. Then I can hit continue and all is well. Obviously this is inconvenient.

This is the only way to get BC3K to run in 3dFx Glide (bc3000ad.exe /g) - period. Nature of the beast. Not to worry - BCM + Voodoo5 5500 = extremely pleasurable gaming exprience. So be patient biggrin.gif

TTFN

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Rear Admiral Gallion

ICV-Graf Spee, Spectre (Antis)

Executive Officer

Spectre Fleet

"You can only love or hate something you truly understand."

Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series

Leader, Team 1

Posted

Thanks Gallion. I'll try... cwm33.gif

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Marco Ramius

Cmdr., GCV-Catalina

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