Lionel, > Like Uwe, I haven't added any extra parameter to XWin.exe > (I suppose that's what you meant), I'm using either the > standard startx or startxwin.sh, but I have tried to run > XWin.exe directly from a shell as well, and this was > without any parameter.
Oops. I got confused. The decision about whether to use the Shadow DirectDraw Non-Locking engine versus the Shadow DirectDraw engine is based upon whether you have DirectDraw 4 or higher (which enables Non-Locking). If you have DirectDraw 3 or lower then you don't get Non-Locking. I got messed up and thought it depended upon whether you've got an NT-based platform or not. DirectX has stagnated at version 3 for NT 4.0, if I recall correctly (this version is installed with SP3, I believe). There were some rumblings, back before Windows 2000 was released, that a new version of DirectX would be included in SP6 or SP7, but SP6 didn't include a new version and I haven't heard any further information about SP7 (though I haven't looked for any such information). Hope that clears things up. Everything is normal on your end with respect to command line parameters. Harold
