> Norman Vine writes:
> > > I've just installed 0.7.8 precompiled windows binaries. I
> > previously had
> > > 0.7.6 but it had a known problem with the AMD processor and
> > wasn't usable.
> > > That problem seems to have gone, but now the speed is 1
> > fps. I know that
> > > means that I'm not getting hardware acceleration, but I've
> > checked the
> > > drivers (nvidia) and they say that openGL is there (and the
> > FAQ only deals
> > > with Linux problems in this area)... Does anyone have an idea of
> > > what I can look for?
> > >
> > More specifics of your system? Video RAM, etc.?
> >
> >Athlon 800MHz Thunderbird
> >128MByte ram
> >Powercolor 32MByte GeForce2GTS video card
> >Win 98
> >
> >0.7.6 ran at speed, it just exploded for other reasons.
>
> Have you looked at
> http://www.geforcefaq.com
>
> specifically check for known issues with your motherboard
> card combination
I have found the problem. This may be useful for others. On that machine I
have two video cards, the GeForce and an old S3 with the desktop spread
across both screens. Turn off the second video card, and everything leaps to
life (logical).
> >Incidentally, I tried it also on another machine running Win2k with a
> Matrox
> >G450 video card, and it died with an "illegal instruction"
> very early in
> the
> >piece. I can post the error log if anyone is interested...
>
> FWIW
> I keep my current Windows executable < usually curent with
> the CVS files >
> at http://www.vso.cape.com/~nhv/files/fgfs/
Alas, that version dies at exactly the same instruction as the released
version. I have the dump if anyone is interested, but I'm not going to push
it.
Bruce
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