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3dfx error

4 posts by 4 people · 15 May 1998 - 17 May 1998

tried the nascar 2 3dfx patch. I'm getting a: Fatal error unable to load ddl.a message So what am I missing ? Thanks!
Marco Habet 17 May 1998#408740
I don't know if the following is the reason for your problem, but i once got a very similar error message from a different game and missing disk space on my hard disk turned out to be responsible for it. I had to free up disk space until there were about 70MB available to be able to start the other game without these "unable to load blabla" messages. So maybe the 3dfx version of nascar 2 needs more disk space to start up ? Even if the hard disk where you installed it has enough disk you should check if there is enough disk space on the hard disk where your temp directory (e.g. c:\windows\temp) resides because the game might want to allocate disk space in this directory. But i really don't know if this applies to your problem, so maybe you should wait for other replies before considering to erase files which you would rather like to keep...
Mark F. 17 May 1998#408741
you need to add your two glide files from your video card into your n2 dir for it to work.
Quoted text (7 lines)>tried the nascar 2 3dfx patch. >I'm getting a: >Fatal error unable to load ddl.a message >So what am I missing ? >Thanks!
sysbo 17 May 1998#408742
I'm wondering, would this work for Monster Truck Madness 2 as well? Think I tried it already, can't remember. Seems when I try to run MTM2 in 3DFX mode, it looks like it's trying to run in 800x600 lines, but I don't think my monitor supports this resolution. (It's a 14" VGA color Pukard Bell) .... When I run it in D3D mode, it looks and runs fine, although, I still get the occasional 'pausing' in the game, same as Quake 2. Yes, I've installed the 'full' installs of both these games on my hard drive too. P200MMX (PR200 Cyrix)/32megs ram/1.02gig/M3Dfx v1
Quoted text (12 lines)>you need to add your two glide files from your video card into your n2 dir >for it to work. >>tried the nascar 2 3dfx patch. >>I'm getting a: >>Fatal error unable to load ddl.a message >>So what am I missing ? >>Thanks!

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