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Article #17792Re: Directx 3 "upsets" existing DOS mode games
From: gdu... Geoffrey Dunn
Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 00:00
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Chris Rogers (ch...@vci.com.au) wrote: : >>As for DirectX 3 messing up DOS games... No way. Anyone : >>who thinks otherwise does not understand what is going on : >>with DOS/Win95. Period. Sorry to be blunt but that is how it : >>is. : : hmm..... I am sorry but my newsserver has not got the start of this : thread - hence I have missed the DirectX connection. Well I did and I want this thread to get back on track. So here is my story... About one month ago I installed Win95. I've been putting it off for a long time for good reasons. However once installed properly I immediatly tested the games still installed to see how they ran. Movies were a little jerky but both Mechwarrior II and Warcraft II ran fine. Later I installed a demo of Earthsiege II to try out. I've been wanting to see this game for a long time. Included was the Direct X 3 drivers needed and so in they went. ES II was less than impressive and I soon removed it from my machine, yet direct X dirvers can not be uninstalled, so they stayed. Now when I try and run Mechwarrior II in '95 I get horizontal lines of crap in the simulator. An error that was not there before, Warcraft II plays midi music at about twice the speed, and all dos programs by default complain when running through '95 and have to be specialy set to stop complaining or reboot to dos. I have seen it. These changes are real. The question is why and how. And how the heck can I get rid of the direct X 3 drivers because installing the lastest version fixes nothing. -- Geoffrey Dunn gdu...@scu.edu.au http://spike.scu.edu.au/~gdunn10/ If you take my comments seriously, please take two aspirins and see me in the morning. Member of Australians United Against Gherkins.
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From: gdu...@scu.edu.au (Geoffrey Dunn) Subject: Re: Directx 3 "upsets" existing DOS mode games Date: 1997/05/09 Message-ID: <5kubpr$unf$2@axis.scu.edu.au> X-Deja-AN: 240367421 References: <01bc4912$3e2ff2e0$2568adce@crc3.concentric.net> <33524edf.990813@news.gabn.net> <01bc46e9$2e278f00$02551dcb@COMPUTER1> <33555055.5365121@news.bridge.net> <oMiczAPBBh107h@vci.com.au> Followup-To: alt.games.wing-commander,aus.games,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim Organization: Southern Cross University Newsgroups: alt.games.wing-commander,aus.games,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit