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Bad news Kevin. I have run a thriller 8 meg pci with dx6 for months now with no
problems at all. In fact I run real old drivers 072.3465! It seems to me I have
seen reports of the agp version being more problematic. Perhaps an exchange is
in order.
JM

Kevin Caldwell wrote:

> I recently had to upgrade to Win98. It came with Directx6.0. My faithful
> Thriller 8M AGP, which worked perfectly under Win95 and Directx5.2, would
> not run GPL at all with Directx 6.0 or 6.1. The start-up screen would just
> come up all garbled.
>
> The Directx un-installer utility is not available at the web site, and I was
> desparate to get it working yesterday. I installed some Rendition
> "reference" drivers from:
> http://www.rendition.com/download.html
>
> V2k_3.0b3.zip
>
> They allow GPL to run, but have some problems. The Windows screens look a
> bit odd, and have random different colored dots here and there. It now
> forgets my monitor type, and refresh rate on every shut down. I have to
> re-size my screen to 800x640 (or whatever it is) before booting GPL. The
> screen refresh rate in the menu sections of GPL looks like it is about 50
> Hz, although once in the car it looks OK.
>
> Not a great situation, but I made the league race. Thanks to Brent Martin
> for pointing out the drivers to me, a fellow competitor in our League.
>
> I hope going back to Directx 5.2, once the un-installer is avalable again,
> will allow me to use the drivers from the Hercules site (th3dw085.exe) that
> are much more refined than the Rendition Beta drivers. I'm open to any other
> suggestions.
>
> Kevin Caldwell
> Calgary, Canada



