Thanks for all the help guys. I still haven't got it
working under NT, but I am going to put in Win98
tomorrow. I will let you know how this goes.
--Venkata
P.S. This card is the best 3d card I have seen in
terms of speed and image quality. I'm sure that the
problems I'm having must be due to some weird
hardware/software setup. If you don't have it, I
highly recommend it as a solution.
--- Shawn Kendall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We have the exact same card and it runs beautifully
> on 98 and NT.
> Here's a couple of things to check.
>
> What version of Java3D are you running? OpenGL
> or DirectX? DirectX is no
> good on NT.
> Try installing Service Pack 5 for NT.
> Get the latest GeForce OpenGL drivers from
> www.nVidia.com
>
> Good luck, and if that doesn't fix it give a holler!
>
> Venkata Mahadevan wrote:
>
> > Hi all. I got a Guillemot 3d prophet GeForce card
> to
> > use with Java3d. But there are some major
> problems.
> >
> > When I run openGL benchmarks on the card (written
> in
> > C) and/or OpenGL programs, the card performs
> > beautifully.
> > It is extremely fast and smooth.
> >
> > On the other hand, Java3d programs do not seem to
> be
> > accelerated at all. They run extremely slowly. I
> > downloaded the BencchJ3d app from
> www.tornadolabs.com
> > and it performs very poorly on it. Maybe 20FPS.
> >
> > Also, I am writing a program which accesses a
> database
> > to get 3d data and I get the following error:
> >
> > ddraw.dll initialization failed. The process is
> > terminating abnormally
> > wglcreatecontext failed
> >
> > I am running WinNT 4.0 with Service Pack 3
> > P-III 500
> > 512MB RAM
> >
> > What could be the matter? I strongly suspect that
> NT
> > is somehow fouling things up and am considering
> > switching to Win98 instead.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Venkata
> >
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