Jedi Knight Dark Forces II vs. Orchid Righteous 3D (Voodoo)

[djon]

Hi outthere !

I have an (old ?) Orchid Righteous 3D video card that generally works well.

This is my situation:

After installing the "Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II" game from LucasArts I
experience a crash (lockup) as soon as I launch the game. According to the
(extensive) troubleshooting guide that comes with the game (wonder why !!?)
this error is caused by a "well known RAM defect" on the graphics card - but
this can be fixed by a downloadable patch from Orchid - the patch is labeled
"R1_2_48D.EXE".

By the way - according to the installation-data I'm using a "Righteous 3D
driver version 3.01.00 - Dec. 16 1997".

So as you can understand my second problem is: where to look for the patch
!?

I hope for a positive answer from you !

Kind regards and a merry christmas to you from

Djon Larsen
Denmark

[Jesse LeFort]

Try to find a link to your company under the drivers section of
http://www.3dfiles.com Another suggestion is to NOT use the orchid drivers
but go to http://www.3dfx.com and use the Voodoo 1 reference drivers, they
are faster, more stable and more feature complete.

Jesse

[BabyJesus[D.C.]]

The well known RAM defect was that some ORCHID cards had some RAM that was
uable to run at the 50mhz that they were supposed to run. Orchid fixed this
by underclocking the card to 48mhz but after some people screamed bloody
murder orchid replaced the cards that were affected if you let them know. I
can tell you that running Jedi Knight on a original Voodoo is going to be a
horribly choppy experience it was on Voodoo2.

"djon" <dj...@post.tele.dk> wrote in message
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[djon]

Hi Jesse
Advise #1 leads back to the Orchid homepage ! (which does NOT address Voodoo
cards anymore).
Advise #2 gives reference drivers OK, but by trying that the overall
performance of the 3D card deteriorates, while it does NOT solve the
original problem.

So - no solution yet - but thanks for trying !

Djon :o)

Jesse LeFort <ptl...@nospam.home.com> skrev i en
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[blah]

BabyJesus[D.C.] <neve...@home.com> wrote in message
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> I can tell you that running Jedi Knight on a original Voodoo is going to
be a
> horribly choppy experience it was on Voodoo2.

I have a P233mmx, 64MB Ram, Orchid Voodoo2 12 MB and I have never had any
chop playing Jedi Knight. I still play it on the same system and it's still
ok. I also play regularly with friends over the net, still no chop.

[David McNab]

"blah" <bl...@bla.com> writes:
> I have a P233mmx, 64MB Ram, Orchid Voodoo2 12 MB and I have never had any
> chop playing Jedi Knight. I still play it on the same system and it's still
> ok. I also play regularly with friends over the net, still no chop.

Seconded--K6-166, 32MB, Orchid Voodoo2 12MB, no
choppiness in Jedi Knight. -- Dave

[paul lacy]

Well that's nice, but I believe the original posting dealt with a Voodoo 1
card question...

Paul

[Joseph Huesmann]

In article <Pine.OSF.4.10.991229...@unicorn.it.wsu.edu>,

Well, I had a Voodoo Rush card (yeah, I know, *cringe*) and it had no
problem with that thing.

[Markus Mokkanen]

"djon" <dj...@post.tele.dk> wrote:

>Hi outthere !
>
>I have an (old ?) Orchid Righteous 3D video card that generally works well.
>
>This is my situation:
>
>After installing the "Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II" game from LucasArts I
>experience a crash (lockup) as soon as I launch the game. According to the
>(extensive) troubleshooting guide that comes with the game (wonder why !!?)
>this error is caused by a "well known RAM defect" on the graphics card - but
>this can be fixed by a downloadable patch from Orchid - the patch is labeled
>"R1_2_48D.EXE".

I had exactly the same card when I was playing Jedi Knight, and no
such problem. I think I was using DirectX5 or 6 at the time.

[blah]

In the original post, he said the other guy would have problems with a
Voodoo 2 also, which we never have.