Direct draw errors

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I have just installed a Kyro II 3D prophet 4500 vid card, the .114 driver and DX 8.0a - nice.

DII nowrepearedly crashes to the blue screen of death (W98) with a VDX PMXKERN direct draw error - not nice.

Any suggestions pls.

Stay free

D.r.
 
run video test again... select Direct3D mode (?)

I'm thinking of buying that vid card
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Thanks for that - I had tried a couple of times but it did not really like it.

However it is now fixed!

What did I do?

Updated the mboard chipset driver and the BIOS - on the advice of hercules tech support, who gave a very prompt reply)

Apparently there are 'issues' with old
Ali and Via (?) chipsets.

now this is fixed I can say I am very happy with the card - a nice impprovent in DII visuals and speed over my diamond stealth II and Voodoo2 cards - and a nice price
 
you prefer DirectDraw to Direct3D...?

Direct3D is nicer looking, usually DirectDraw (a.k.a. software mode) is for slower systems with crappy video cards
 
You are right of course - Direct3D is nicer (but i'm not expert)

The problem was that I would run the DII vid test, select D3D, try to play and would then get the error.

I believe that VDX PMXKERN is a direct draw file,

As to the connection between selecting D3D and a DD error I cannot say.
 
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