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3dfx Voodoo Banshee completely unsupported?

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Post Sun Feb 23, 2003 7:18 am

3dfx Voodoo Banshee completely unsupported?

Well, after spending 4 hours trying to get the Freelancer demo downloaded, installed, and stuff; the readme tells me that the Voodoo Banshee isn't supported or has issues with the trial version. I think to myself: "Maybe it'll still work anyways" but it turns out, nada. After the two opening cinematics, my computer freezes up.

Now, is there a way to get through this, or is it hopeless because of my outdated system? Does the full version of Freelancer support my video card? Or is it completely unplayable on my system.

Oh, and I have:
Celeron 400mhz
320Mb RAM (Not sure what type)
3dfx Voodoo Banshee (Not sure the specs on this)
ASUS P2-99-B Motherboard
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On another note: I know this has nothing to do with Freelancer, but the other computer I have (which I can't even turn on right now due to the main fan breaking down; actually, I can turn it on, it just overheats due to lack of ventilation), the 3d card gets really buggy at times. It seems that whenever 3d graphics are in use, it freezes up on me. It displays these strange vertical... freeze effects or something (It looks like something done in photoshop, vertical blinds or something) the mouse works, but it's all frozen. It does this randomly, but eventually, proportionate to how heavily it seems to be being used. If I'm just browsing the net, I'm fine (though once it did freeze on the net), but if I load up something like HalfLife, it'll play for a few minutes, then freeze. If I load up something like worldcraft, it freezes after a matter of seconds.

It's a Riva TNT2 (M2 I think)
The current cpu is an AMD K6-500 (I think). It was freezing up before with a K6-400, and a motherboard change didn't fix it. Neither did a RAM change. If anything, the motherboard/cpu change seemed to make it even more frequent. Changing drivers didn't help at all (we've tried the ones that come with the board, and tried the latest drivers off of the website).
I'm beginning to think the board's just plain busted, because it seems to be getting more frequent.

So, help?

Why make your own mistakes when someone else has already made them for you?
-Learn from the skeletons floating in the piranha pool: NO SWIMMING!

Edited by - Whasp Commander on 23-02-2003 07:21:57

Post Sun Feb 23, 2003 9:35 pm

Well, for the TNT2 problem, it seems to be overheating issues, with the card overheating. We've tried putting it in another system and it still crashed (But I got to see the opening of Freelancer, yay! ) Now we're gonna try to find a way to put a fan on it; see if that works.
Edit: Oh, and we're hoping that 6 months without active cooling didn't permanently damage the board.

And I guess we're just gonna have to break down and buy a better card than the 16 meg banshee. Oh well.

Why make your own mistakes when someone else has already made them for you?
-Learn from the skeletons floating in the piranha pool: NO SWIMMING!

Edited by - Whasp Commander on 23-02-2003 21:42:12

Post Mon Feb 24, 2003 2:16 am

My god man we're living in the 21st century! What are you doing with a computer from the 20th?

Even if you get a better video card, your geriatric processor probably won't cut it.

FL isn't Unreal 2, you don't need a screaming machine to run it or anything, but when a 1GHz processor, 256MB memory, and a GeForce 2 is considered to be a low end (bottom of the barrel actually) machine today, don't expect to run any modern game.

Post Mon Feb 24, 2003 3:04 am

Well, the demo worked fine until it froze with a celeron 400 w/ TNT2, and once we get this TNT2 board working, we'll throw it in the K6-500 computer.

Which reminds me: Does anyone have ideas on how to cool down a TNT2 board? It comes with a heatsink, but no fan.

Why make your own mistakes when someone else has already made them for you?
-Learn from the skeletons floating in the piranha pool: NO SWIMMING!

Post Thu Mar 13, 2003 6:22 am

You could try http://www.1coolpc.com/, but frankly I'm not sure that system's gonna run it well either way - that's below system requirements, which is risky. Good luck if you attempt it though.

As far as the 3Dfx Banshee issue, if it says it won't support it, I doubt there's much you can do. You might be able to get some sort of driver that works better, but I somewhat doubt it.

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