Reactor 3d and SciTech Display Doctor - Any Help???

Ok, Here's the problem. I have the following system: P200MMX w/ 16megs of RAM REACTOR 3D Video Card w/ 4megs of Ram The first thing that I noticed was this. When playing the Need For Speed Special Edition in DOS (because Windows95 still gives it a hit), I am not able to play ANY of the video clips that are within the game (Intro, etc..). This does not happen with any other games that play video clips. I contacted EA, and they were no help. I re-installed the game under Windows95 and the video clips ALL run just fine through there. My next step was to install Display Doctor. The install program recognized the Reactor, but whenever I ran any games, the resoultion was limited to about the top 3-4 inches of the screen, kind of like the screen has been squeezed together. The videos in Need for Speed ran just fine, in full screen, but the game itself did not this time. I proceeded to run Quake, which did the same thing. The game was limited to 3-4 inches of horizontal pixels. I unistalled display doctor, and am back to my original problem. One other thing that I have noticed is that if I attempt to run any games off of a floppy boot disk, I can NEVER use DMA access for the games. DMA will only work if windows95 is shutdown to MS-Dos mode. I appreciate any help in advance. Thanks!! Jason

I also forgot to add that I have a TYAN s1470 motherboard with the VX chipset and 512K of pipeline burst cache.

<snip> Sorry can't help with early problems list about display and videos. : One other thing that I have noticed is that if I attempt to run any : games off of a floppy boot disk, I can NEVER use DMA access for the : games. DMA will only work if windows95 is shutdown to MS-Dos mode. This is something that Tyan has done with it's Award BIOS (turn off DMA PCI mode in DOS). However, just run DMADIAG as part of your boot and it should work just fine. I think Eric has this utility tucked away in his NASCAR utility page, check <http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ebusch/>. -- **************************** Michael E. Carver ************************* Upside out, or inside down...False alarm the only game in town. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=<[ /./. [- < ]>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Here's the URL for Vesafix, but I have no idea if it works: ftp://ftp.sierra.com/pub/patches/hardware/vesafix2.exe -- The IWCCCARS Project: Q & A Representative http://www.theuspits.com/iwcccars/index.html http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ebusch/

I looked on both of these pages and didn't see it anywhere. If somone has a specific URL with this file, please let me know.

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>>The first thing that I noticed was this. When playing the Need For >>Speed Special Edition in DOS (because Windows95 still gives it a hit), >>I am not able to play ANY of the video clips that are within the game >>(Intro, etc..). This does not happen with any other games that play >>video clips. I contacted EA, and they were no help. I re-installed >>the game under Windows95 and the video clips ALL run just fine through >>there. >Use VESAFIX from Eric Bush's page or the Crunge http://www.crunge.com >take care.. >Julian Data

That seemed to take care of the video problems at the intro, but I still cant get the videos to work properly that play when you win a race.

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>Here's the URL for Vesafix, but I have no idea if it works: >ftp://ftp.sierra.com/pub/patches/hardware/vesafix2.exe >-- >The IWCCCARS Project: Q & A Representative >http://www.theuspits.com/iwcccars/index.html >http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ebusch/ >> I looked on both of these pages and didn't see it anywhere. If >somone >> has a specific URL with this file, please let me know.

I have E-mailed Electronic Arts to no avail. When I win a race, the video is limited to the top 3 or 4 inches of the screen. I can hear the music playing fine, but other than that, it is just a bunch of britely colored pixels.

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>>That seemed to take care of the video problems at the intro, but I >>still cant get the videos to work properly that play when you win a >>race. >What happens after the race or when you win??? What happens to the >video? Have you tried emailing the company that made the game?? >take care >Julian Data

I'm right in the middle of the same problem... but mine freezes up when the install gets to the sound board setup (before getting to the page, not when trying to test)