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Kyle posted 02-17-99 06:22 PM ET
Okay, this just started happening. I'm on 1024x768 (shouldn't matter, because this is what I've always played with). I have a P200MMX, 96 megs of RAM, Riva TNT 16 meg video card.
Okay, I hurried the Universal Translator secret project. When the movie starts (well it doesn't actually start, it just blanks the screen, and shuts off the game.
I don't know what else I can give you, because it has never done this before. By the way, I've hurried many, many SP, and all has worked fine.
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS posted 02-17-99 06:28 PM ET
Can you duplicate the problem with an autosave? If not...If so, verify the other movies are working fine. If so, try manually copying that movie to a movies folder on the hd (in the installed games directory). If not, what recent software/hardware changes did you make to your system?
jkm
firaxis games
Kyle posted 02-18-99 12:12 AM ET
Well, I haven't made any Software/hardware changes since I got the game.
Now, I'm not sure what you mean with the auto save thing.
And, I cannot play the movie, because it is in .wve format.
mihailod posted 02-18-99 12:32 AM ET
You have a player in Movies directory on
the CD... Just go to command prompt,
go to CD (for examlpe d , then cd movies
and then type:
playuv15 <name_of_the_movie.wve>
Enjoy!
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS posted 02-18-99 11:24 AM ET
Sure. In the saves folder is an auto folder. The game by defaults saves every turn. Autosave1 is the last turn you took (well, the start of it). Autosave5 is 5 turns ago. See if by loading one of those autosaves you can duplicate the problem. Also, does like the intro movie still play fine?
To play the movies outside of the game, you can use the command line, or drag the *.wve file onto the player within a window.
jkm
firaxis games
Kyle posted 02-18-99 11:57 AM ET
I tried the movie thing, didn't work, the same thing happened, as when it tried to start in the game.
I tried to start the game up, but the Firaxis logo was all discolored, and it shut off. I had IE5 and AOL running at the time, so I'll try it without those on (plus I'll restart the computer, just in case). I'll get back to you.
Kyle posted 02-18-99 12:35 PM ET
Okay, I loaded autosave1 and let it play through a turn. I hurried the Secret Project again, and played through the next turn. When the movie was about to start it shut the game off again.
It never actually gets to the movie. The screen goes black, and I think it changes screen resolution, my desktop flickers (screen stops being black, and show the desktop) to a lower resolution, then the game shuts off, and my desktop returns to normal.
Should I get Direct X 6.1?
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS posted 02-18-99 02:04 PM ET
Give it a shot. Hows the intro movie play?
jkm
firaxis games
Kyle posted 02-18-99 02:23 PM ET
Hows the intro movie play?
<><>
Well, the opening movie worked fine.
I'll install the DX6.1 later, and see what happens.
Kyle posted 02-18-99 05:16 PM ET
Ugh, now the game doesn't start at all.
Okay, I installed DX6.1 and the new drivers for my video card.
Now I get an error message about:
Ddhelp
When I looked at the details thing, it said it caused a fault at the module VPR.DLL.
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS posted 02-18-99 06:35 PM ET
That sounds like a reboot issue. Run DXDiag.exe to track down the problem if it persists.
jkm
firaxis games
Kyle posted 02-18-99 07:59 PM ET
First I wanted to thank you for your responses Jeffrey, butyou're not getting rid of me that easily
Okay, I ran the Direct X tests, everything works fine. The Direct Draw, and D3D work fine. I ran scan disk earlier today, so nothing new should be there.
Now, it gets to the opening movie, then it shut off with the same warning message as before.
I even re-installed the game. Still nothing.
What really bothers me, is that this just started, and the game worked perfectly since I got it last week, until now of course.
And this isn't a reboot issue, I've rebooted many, many, many times.
Thanks.
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS posted 02-18-99 09:47 PM ET
Hard drive space drying up? Do you leave the swap file size to be determined by windows, or do you manually do it?
jkm
firaxis games
Kyle posted 02-18-99 11:52 PM ET
Windows is taking care of the swap file.
According to Windows Explorer, I have 828 megabytes left. I have a lot of things to delete, so I can get more.
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS posted 02-19-99 11:27 AM ET
I'm completely baffled. Anyone else out there have something similar to this? If so, any tricks I'm forgetting?
jkm
firaxis games
Kyle posted 02-19-99 03:20 PM ET
Not as much as I am. I swear, I haven't added any software from the time I got the game (and the patch a few days later), and when the thing stopped working.
I tried it again this morning, the opening movie worked fine, and as soon as it stopped, it shut off.
I'll try a few other games, and see if it happens there too.
Tree Hugger posted 02-19-99 04:48 PM ET
I have a similar problem. I believe it started when I got the 2.0 patch. Sometimes, but not always, the screen goes black and the computer freezes when a secret project movie should play.
The computer isn't totally frozen, in that the hard drive runs when I don't hold down the mouse button, but does not run when I press the mouse button. I sit there and turn the hard drive on and off with the mouse button, hoping to unfreeze the computer, but it never works.
The problem seems to occur more often frequently when I rush secret projects, and particularly if I rush two projects in a single turn, when the second project is very likely to freeze.
Also, sometimes the movies play smoothly, and sometimes they stutter throughout. Also, sometimes there is a single stutter at the beginning -- about 1 second of sound plays, then the drives whir for a while, then the remainder of the sound and video play smoothly.
Also, sometimes the Zoom to Base / Proceed box pops up before a movie plays, and sometimes it doesn't. Freezes seem to be more likely when the box doesn't pop up.
In addition, the verbal messages -- "Drone Riots," "Nutrient Shortfall," etc., play all at once at the beginning of each turn, overlapped to some degree. I believe this problem started with the 2.0 patch.
I have a 200 MHz Pentium with a 4 MB Stealth Diamond 2000 video card, a Soundblaster 64 sound card, and a 32x CD ROM drive. I have DirectX 6.0. I will try installing DirectX 6.1 this weekend.
If I am able to isolate a saved game that reliably recreates the frozen movie problem, I will e-mail it to you. However, I am generally able to load an earlier saved game and play through without the freeze. I don't know if it is because I move my pieces differently, or because I freed memory by rebooting or what.
Kyle posted 02-19-99 08:57 PM ET
I'm still have to check some other games, but I'm grasping at straws here, if I sent you my saved game, would that be of any use?
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS posted 02-19-99 11:08 PM ET
Worth a shot. [email protected].
jkm
firaxis games
Narial posted 02-20-99 01:05 AM ET
I dont have a problem with the movie starting, i have a problem with the spec proj movies crashing my machine. i'm running a brand spanking new (bought alpha centauri same day i bought computer last sunday) 366mhz celeron with 5mb AGP card and 10gb HD with 32MB ram. the game runs ultra smooth, the intro movie runs without a hitch and i tried all the other suggested fixes here. but like i said the only way for me to keep the game from totally crashing my system is to turn off the spec proj movies. i loved the movies from Civ II and i really wanna watch all of these especially since i have yet to conquer Planet

this seems to be a problem with a lot of people though. i even brought the game to my friends house with his brand new compaq 550somethingorother with 450mhz pII and 128mg ram and all the trimmings...still crashed on his system both with a straight install from the CD AND with the 2.0 patch from the web site.
wkerr posted 02-20-99 11:28 AM ET
I too am having a similar problem. Sometimes after movies play (they play correctly), the game kicks me to the desktop with the same Ddhelp error message. This can happen during the opening movie or a secret project movie. My system is a P200 (no MMX), 128 MB Ram, and a Diamond Viper V550 16 MB(PCI). The crash happens in VPRDD.DLL, and appears to be related to switching resolution back to 1024x768 to play the game (or continue the game). Perhaps there is some incompatablity with the Diamond Drivers?
Will
hogger posted 02-20-99 11:40 AM ET
As in the first post, I too am experiencing
game shutdown to the desktop when a movie
starts to play. I also have a Riva TNT (STB).
Running SMAC v2.0
PII 450
128MB RAM
Montego II Sound Card
Hogger

Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS posted 02-20-99 11:45 AM ET
Run DXDiag.exe and look for "!" and run the various tests. If any problems are noted, get the latest versions of your video drivers and perhaps get DX 6.1 (www.microsoft.com/directx). Also, try directdraw=0 and 8bitmoviesound=1 in the alpha centauri.ini. Try renaming the sound.dll to sound.dl_.
jkm
firaxis games
Kyle posted 02-20-99 05:00 PM ET
Would those two lines go at the end of the .ini file?
And where exactly are the .dll's?
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS posted 02-20-99 06:22 PM ET
Anywhere in the file is fine. The sound.dll is in the folder you installed the game into.
jkm
firaxis games
Kyle posted 02-20-99 06:34 PM ET
Good news. I got the game working, thanks to your help.
Thanks again.
wkerr posted 02-20-99 07:16 PM ET
Now if only that helped me...
I made the changes to the ini file. I also renamed the Sound.dll. Still the problem persists. I now get the DDHELP error before a movie starts, instead of after it finishes. Any other ideas?
Will
Kyle posted 02-20-99 08:39 PM ET
Here's my .ini file...
[Alpha Centauri]
MainFontSize=16
InterludeFontSize=16
directdraw=0
8bitmoviesound=1
Video Mode=1024
ds3d=1
eax=1
FastUnitAnim=0
SmoothUnitAnim=0
Prefs Format=12
Difficulty=0
Map Type=0
Top Menu=3
Faction=1
Preferences=10111011111000011101110110110110
More Preferences=1110100111000101101000
Semaphore=00000000
Announce=111100001110101001
Rules=1101000001110
Customize=0
Custom World=2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
Time Controls=1
WindowsFileBox=0
Latest Save=C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri\saves\Kyle of the Hive, 2420
[PREFERENCES]
ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm=0

Leave out that "Lates Save" thing, and try to make it look like mine (just a suggestion). I kept the sound.dll alone, turned off direct draw, and set the video mode to force it to stay at 1024. Restart the computer after you make the changes.
What the hell, it's worth a try.
wkerr posted 02-20-99 10:17 PM ET
The Video Mode=1024 was the missing key. It seems to run fine now. For future reference here is what I changed in Alpha Centauri.ini:
8bitmoviesound=1
directdraw=0
Video Mode=1024
I also put the sound.dll back as I didn't have any sound in the game after renaming it.
Will
Tree Hugger posted 02-22-99 05:57 PM ET
FYI
I got updated drivers and Direct X 6.1, and have not experienced any more problems with the movies. (I had a problem with the computer freezing during movies, as discussed earlier in this thread)
darren posted 02-23-99 02:15 PM ET
It seems I have a similar problem.
P150, Hercules 3d/DX graphics card.
I see no movies, screen goes blank - but they sound great. A mouse click ends the movie and I'm back in the game.
I'm downloading the latest drivers but has anyone else got the same problem? (Also see similar with Settlers3)
Thanks
gruffudd posted 02-23-99 03:30 PM ET
I've got the same problem
I have a Intel 233mmx
128mb ram
Diamond Viper 550 (16meg, pci)
40x cd
plently of hard drive space on C: (1.02 gig free)
What happens is that the movie will run, and poof I get a error with ddhelp and the game goes poof. I've upgraded the drivers, down graded the drivers, uninstalled the card and re-installed with the original drivers, re-installed direct x, summoned the great deamon Blargath, no luck.
If anyone from firaxis is interested I do have the Dr. Watson diagnostic dump, as well as a saved game with the particular problem
Kyle posted 02-24-99 12:48 AM ET
See my .ini file above. You need to tweak it abit to get the game working.
Turn off Direct draw, turn on the 8bit sounds, and force the video mode to whichever you keep it at, either 800 or 1024.
gruffudd posted 02-24-99 11:11 AM ET
Thanks but still no luck, The next thing I may try is to use the reference drivers from NVIDIA instead of the diamond dirvers and see if that helps...
darren posted 02-24-99 03:05 PM ET
Well I'm OK now.
Changed the Hercules 3D/DX driver from version 1.26 to 1.28 problem was full screen direct draw (WIN98)
With service like this this Internet thing might take off on day...
Ewald posted 03-01-99 04:09 AM ET
I had the same problems with a Diamond Viper 550. It worked well after I exchanged the Diamond drivers for the Riva TNT reference drivers (ver. 048).
Ewald
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Author	Topic: Game shuts off, when a Secret Proj. movie starts.
Kyle	posted 02-17-99 06:22 PM ET Okay, this just started happening. I'm on 1024x768 (shouldn't matter, because this is what I've always played with). I have a P200MMX, 96 megs of RAM, Riva TNT 16 meg video card. Okay, I hurried the Universal Translator secret project. When the movie starts (well it doesn't actually start, it just blanks the screen, and shuts off the game. I don't know what else I can give you, because it has never done this before. By the way, I've hurried many, many SP, and all has worked fine.
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS	posted 02-17-99 06:28 PM ET Can you duplicate the problem with an autosave? If not...If so, verify the other movies are working fine. If so, try manually copying that movie to a movies folder on the hd (in the installed games directory). If not, what recent software/hardware changes did you make to your system? jkm firaxis games
Kyle	posted 02-18-99 12:12 AM ET Well, I haven't made any Software/hardware changes since I got the game. Now, I'm not sure what you mean with the auto save thing. And, I cannot play the movie, because it is in .wve format.
mihailod	posted 02-18-99 12:32 AM ET You have a player in Movies directory on the CD... Just go to command prompt, go to CD (for examlpe d , then cd movies and then type: playuv15 <name_of_the_movie.wve> Enjoy!
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS	posted 02-18-99 11:24 AM ET Sure. In the saves folder is an auto folder. The game by defaults saves every turn. Autosave1 is the last turn you took (well, the start of it). Autosave5 is 5 turns ago. See if by loading one of those autosaves you can duplicate the problem. Also, does like the intro movie still play fine? To play the movies outside of the game, you can use the command line, or drag the *.wve file onto the player within a window. jkm firaxis games
Kyle	posted 02-18-99 11:57 AM ET I tried the movie thing, didn't work, the same thing happened, as when it tried to start in the game. I tried to start the game up, but the Firaxis logo was all discolored, and it shut off. I had IE5 and AOL running at the time, so I'll try it without those on (plus I'll restart the computer, just in case). I'll get back to you.
Kyle	posted 02-18-99 12:35 PM ET Okay, I loaded autosave1 and let it play through a turn. I hurried the Secret Project again, and played through the next turn. When the movie was about to start it shut the game off again. It never actually gets to the movie. The screen goes black, and I think it changes screen resolution, my desktop flickers (screen stops being black, and show the desktop) to a lower resolution, then the game shuts off, and my desktop returns to normal. Should I get Direct X 6.1?
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS	posted 02-18-99 02:04 PM ET Give it a shot. Hows the intro movie play? jkm firaxis games
Kyle	posted 02-18-99 02:23 PM ET Hows the intro movie play? <><> Well, the opening movie worked fine. I'll install the DX6.1 later, and see what happens.
Kyle	posted 02-18-99 05:16 PM ET Ugh, now the game doesn't start at all. Okay, I installed DX6.1 and the new drivers for my video card. Now I get an error message about: Ddhelp When I looked at the details thing, it said it caused a fault at the module VPR.DLL.
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS	posted 02-18-99 06:35 PM ET That sounds like a reboot issue. Run DXDiag.exe to track down the problem if it persists. jkm firaxis games
Kyle	posted 02-18-99 07:59 PM ET First I wanted to thank you for your responses Jeffrey, butyou're not getting rid of me that easily Okay, I ran the Direct X tests, everything works fine. The Direct Draw, and D3D work fine. I ran scan disk earlier today, so nothing new should be there. Now, it gets to the opening movie, then it shut off with the same warning message as before. I even re-installed the game. Still nothing. What really bothers me, is that this just started, and the game worked perfectly since I got it last week, until now of course. And this isn't a reboot issue, I've rebooted many, many, many times. Thanks.
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS	posted 02-18-99 09:47 PM ET Hard drive space drying up? Do you leave the swap file size to be determined by windows, or do you manually do it? jkm firaxis games
Kyle	posted 02-18-99 11:52 PM ET Windows is taking care of the swap file. According to Windows Explorer, I have 828 megabytes left. I have a lot of things to delete, so I can get more.
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS	posted 02-19-99 11:27 AM ET I'm completely baffled. Anyone else out there have something similar to this? If so, any tricks I'm forgetting? jkm firaxis games
Kyle	posted 02-19-99 03:20 PM ET Not as much as I am. I swear, I haven't added any software from the time I got the game (and the patch a few days later), and when the thing stopped working. I tried it again this morning, the opening movie worked fine, and as soon as it stopped, it shut off. I'll try a few other games, and see if it happens there too.
Tree Hugger	posted 02-19-99 04:48 PM ET I have a similar problem. I believe it started when I got the 2.0 patch. Sometimes, but not always, the screen goes black and the computer freezes when a secret project movie should play. The computer isn't totally frozen, in that the hard drive runs when I don't hold down the mouse button, but does not run when I press the mouse button. I sit there and turn the hard drive on and off with the mouse button, hoping to unfreeze the computer, but it never works. The problem seems to occur more often frequently when I rush secret projects, and particularly if I rush two projects in a single turn, when the second project is very likely to freeze. Also, sometimes the movies play smoothly, and sometimes they stutter throughout. Also, sometimes there is a single stutter at the beginning -- about 1 second of sound plays, then the drives whir for a while, then the remainder of the sound and video play smoothly. Also, sometimes the Zoom to Base / Proceed box pops up before a movie plays, and sometimes it doesn't. Freezes seem to be more likely when the box doesn't pop up. In addition, the verbal messages -- "Drone Riots," "Nutrient Shortfall," etc., play all at once at the beginning of each turn, overlapped to some degree. I believe this problem started with the 2.0 patch. I have a 200 MHz Pentium with a 4 MB Stealth Diamond 2000 video card, a Soundblaster 64 sound card, and a 32x CD ROM drive. I have DirectX 6.0. I will try installing DirectX 6.1 this weekend. If I am able to isolate a saved game that reliably recreates the frozen movie problem, I will e-mail it to you. However, I am generally able to load an earlier saved game and play through without the freeze. I don't know if it is because I move my pieces differently, or because I freed memory by rebooting or what.
Kyle	posted 02-19-99 08:57 PM ET I'm still have to check some other games, but I'm grasping at straws here, if I sent you my saved game, would that be of any use?
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS	posted 02-19-99 11:08 PM ET Worth a shot. [email protected]. jkm firaxis games
Narial	posted 02-20-99 01:05 AM ET I dont have a problem with the movie starting, i have a problem with the spec proj movies crashing my machine. i'm running a brand spanking new (bought alpha centauri same day i bought computer last sunday) 366mhz celeron with 5mb AGP card and 10gb HD with 32MB ram. the game runs ultra smooth, the intro movie runs without a hitch and i tried all the other suggested fixes here. but like i said the only way for me to keep the game from totally crashing my system is to turn off the spec proj movies. i loved the movies from Civ II and i really wanna watch all of these especially since i have yet to conquer Planet this seems to be a problem with a lot of people though. i even brought the game to my friends house with his brand new compaq 550somethingorother with 450mhz pII and 128mg ram and all the trimmings...still crashed on his system both with a straight install from the CD AND with the 2.0 patch from the web site.
wkerr	posted 02-20-99 11:28 AM ET I too am having a similar problem. Sometimes after movies play (they play correctly), the game kicks me to the desktop with the same Ddhelp error message. This can happen during the opening movie or a secret project movie. My system is a P200 (no MMX), 128 MB Ram, and a Diamond Viper V550 16 MB(PCI). The crash happens in VPRDD.DLL, and appears to be related to switching resolution back to 1024x768 to play the game (or continue the game). Perhaps there is some incompatablity with the Diamond Drivers? Will
hogger	posted 02-20-99 11:40 AM ET As in the first post, I too am experiencing game shutdown to the desktop when a movie starts to play. I also have a Riva TNT (STB). Running SMAC v2.0 PII 450 128MB RAM Montego II Sound Card Hogger
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS	posted 02-20-99 11:45 AM ET Run DXDiag.exe and look for "!" and run the various tests. If any problems are noted, get the latest versions of your video drivers and perhaps get DX 6.1 (www.microsoft.com/directx). Also, try directdraw=0 and 8bitmoviesound=1 in the alpha centauri.ini. Try renaming the sound.dll to sound.dl_. jkm firaxis games
Kyle	posted 02-20-99 05:00 PM ET Would those two lines go at the end of the .ini file? And where exactly are the .dll's?
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS	posted 02-20-99 06:22 PM ET Anywhere in the file is fine. The sound.dll is in the folder you installed the game into. jkm firaxis games
Kyle	posted 02-20-99 06:34 PM ET Good news. I got the game working, thanks to your help. Thanks again.
wkerr	posted 02-20-99 07:16 PM ET Now if only that helped me... I made the changes to the ini file. I also renamed the Sound.dll. Still the problem persists. I now get the DDHELP error before a movie starts, instead of after it finishes. Any other ideas? Will
Kyle	posted 02-20-99 08:39 PM ET Here's my .ini file... [Alpha Centauri] MainFontSize=16 InterludeFontSize=16 directdraw=0 8bitmoviesound=1 Video Mode=1024 ds3d=1 eax=1 FastUnitAnim=0 SmoothUnitAnim=0 Prefs Format=12 Difficulty=0 Map Type=0 Top Menu=3 Faction=1 Preferences=10111011111000011101110110110110 More Preferences=1110100111000101101000 Semaphore=00000000 Announce=111100001110101001 Rules=1101000001110 Customize=0 Custom World=2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, Time Controls=1 WindowsFileBox=0 Latest Save=C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri\saves\Kyle of the Hive, 2420 [PREFERENCES] ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm=0 Leave out that "Lates Save" thing, and try to make it look like mine (just a suggestion). I kept the sound.dll alone, turned off direct draw, and set the video mode to force it to stay at 1024. Restart the computer after you make the changes. What the hell, it's worth a try.
wkerr	posted 02-20-99 10:17 PM ET The Video Mode=1024 was the missing key. It seems to run fine now. For future reference here is what I changed in Alpha Centauri.ini: 8bitmoviesound=1 directdraw=0 Video Mode=1024 I also put the sound.dll back as I didn't have any sound in the game after renaming it. Will
Tree Hugger	posted 02-22-99 05:57 PM ET FYI I got updated drivers and Direct X 6.1, and have not experienced any more problems with the movies. (I had a problem with the computer freezing during movies, as discussed earlier in this thread)
darren	posted 02-23-99 02:15 PM ET It seems I have a similar problem. P150, Hercules 3d/DX graphics card. I see no movies, screen goes blank - but they sound great. A mouse click ends the movie and I'm back in the game. I'm downloading the latest drivers but has anyone else got the same problem? (Also see similar with Settlers3) Thanks
gruffudd	posted 02-23-99 03:30 PM ET I've got the same problem I have a Intel 233mmx 128mb ram Diamond Viper 550 (16meg, pci) 40x cd plently of hard drive space on C: (1.02 gig free) What happens is that the movie will run, and poof I get a error with ddhelp and the game goes poof. I've upgraded the drivers, down graded the drivers, uninstalled the card and re-installed with the original drivers, re-installed direct x, summoned the great deamon Blargath, no luck. If anyone from firaxis is interested I do have the Dr. Watson diagnostic dump, as well as a saved game with the particular problem
Kyle	posted 02-24-99 12:48 AM ET See my .ini file above. You need to tweak it abit to get the game working. Turn off Direct draw, turn on the 8bit sounds, and force the video mode to whichever you keep it at, either 800 or 1024.
gruffudd	posted 02-24-99 11:11 AM ET Thanks but still no luck, The next thing I may try is to use the reference drivers from NVIDIA instead of the diamond dirvers and see if that helps...
darren	posted 02-24-99 03:05 PM ET Well I'm OK now. Changed the Hercules 3D/DX driver from version 1.26 to 1.28 problem was full screen direct draw (WIN98) With service like this this Internet thing might take off on day...
Ewald	posted 03-01-99 04:09 AM ET I had the same problems with a Diamond Viper 550. It worked well after I exchanged the Diamond drivers for the Riva TNT reference drivers (ver. 048). Ewald