Re: WC4 and a GeForce 3

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From: Karl Frank
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 07:53

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b00ger j0nes wrote:

> Now that I have a good system I thought I'd play it again for old times
> sake.......but for some reason the in flight graphics look like crap (either
> playing in DOS or thru XP using the patch).
> I think it may have to do with VESA drivers not really being up to speed
> (currently running an Elsa Gladac 920 - GeForce 3 with the 41.xx
> Detonators).

You confuse Vesa (which is usually part of the BIOS) with 
DirectX/Direct3D. As such updating your Detonator drivers won't help you.

Are you sure you picked SVGA instead of VGA in the installer? Did you 
try the windows patch?


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From: Karl Frank <ka...@karl.frank.name>
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Subject: Re: WC4 and a GeForce 3
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 09:53:41 +0200
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