Red Alert WILL NOT Run in Windows 95
Robert Holt
I was so excited to get home and try out Red Alert in SVGA...I get it
installed, install DirectX 3.0 and the game...and as soon as I start the
game, this screen comes up in 640x400 (which is what it's supposed to do)
that says..."Please Stand By..." And it sits there...and then my CDROM
resets. And I have to turn the computer off-- it's hung.
I reboot, try it again, and this time it plays a short video clip-- it
works PERFECTLY-- sound, resolution, etc-- but as soon as the second
screen comes up, it says "Please Stand By..." and just hangs there. It
never gives me the main menu.
I've tried re-installing DirectX 3, even went back to DirectX 2-- to no
avail. I have a pretty standard system:
Intel Atlantis motherboard with on-board Crystal sound card (works FINE
with everything else!)
P5/133 with 32 Megs
Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM with 2MB
I'm using an old Pro Audio Spectrum's SCSI interface with a NEC Triple
Speed CDROM drive. It works perfectly with everything. I have to load
the dos drivers, though, or Win95 doesn't see it. Could this be what's
causing the problem? Does DirectX 3 have some kind of 32-bit direct CDROM
accesing routine? I've got plenty of games that use DirectX 2 that work
perfect with my CDROM under windows...
Is anyone else having this awful problem? I can't play the game in
Windows, therefore: no SVGA.
I can play it in DOS, but 320X400 is horrible...why couldn't they have
made an SVGA DOS version?
Thanks for any help!
Robert Holt <rh...@npr.org>
Webmaster <http://www.npr.org>
National Public Radio <w...@well.com>
PS: I even tried running it in NT 4.0 (directX included) and it doesn't
work...
Thrax
I has the same problem. You need to run the Win95 Edition Setup
program that is located in your Westwood folder(assuming you have it)
and change the resolution from 640 x 400 to 640 x 480. Wierd I know,
but it works!
Thrax
White
Thats basically what happens to me in windows. I run the game, get past
all the intro crap then get to a menu that says: New Game, Mulitplayer,
View Intro, etc. I click new game and the screen goes black. I hit the
enter key and it sends me back to windows. Ive tried all kinds of direct
X. I need help! Please a patch or something from westwood!
chris
Snail
In article <329799e...@news.ns.net>, sjm...@ns.net says...
>
>I'm having a different problem under Windows 95, it says "Error-Unable
>to allocate primary video buffer-aborting". I'm using a Diamond
>Stealth video board.
>
I get the feeling that the diamond boards are the problem....I have a
diamond stealth 3200.....and i get a small black screen and my machine hangs
if I try to run Red alert under 95...Dos works but the graphics are cruddy...
Steve Moore
Mike Farnsworth
I can't comment on your Red Alert problems, but the NEC 3x CD-ROM drives
are a known issue with a lot of stuff, especially 95. They drop data
regularly... that's why they're not supported anymore. With 6X and 8Xs
under $100, I really recommend upgrading.
And, as far as I know, NT4 doesn't yet support DirectX 3 (no support for
DirectInput, DirectPlay, or Direct3D).
--
Mike Farnsworth
mfa...@gte.net
Bellevue, Washington
Robert Holt <w...@well.com> wrote in article <577ods$c...@filth.well.com>...
John
I had the same problem... Which Stealth do you have? What I did was
download the drivers from Diamonds page (not the GT In Control one's)
the other one's that mention supporting DirectX. When you install
them they're called
Direct Draw Stealth 64 2001 PCI.
After that everything worked fine...
Good luck... email me if you have any problems.
gr...@netcom.com
Thrax (th...@gte.net) wrote:
: I has the same problem. You need to run the Win95 Edition Setup
: program that is located in your Westwood folder(assuming you have it)
: and change the resolution from 640 x 400 to 640 x 480. Wierd I know,
: but it works!
I was having having problems with major graphics corruption with my
Hercules Dynamite 128/Video until I tried this. It worked perfectly and
now I'm in business! When I brought up that setup box, neither resolution
was checked. I checked 640x480 and it looks like it's going to work now.
Thanks Thrax! :)
--
Tom Funk
gr...@netcom.com
Finger for PGP Public Key
cassidy kovanda
Snail (sn...@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: In article <329799e...@news.ns.net>, sjm...@ns.net says...
: >
: >I'm having a different problem under Windows 95, it says "Error-Unable
: >to allocate primary video buffer-aborting". I'm using a Diamond
: >Stealth video board.
: >
: if I try to run Red alert under 95...Dos works but the graphics are cruddy...
I'm having the same video buffer error with a trident card...this is
frustrating...
I tried checking the trident site, but couldn't find any updated
drivers for Direct-X...hrmmmm.
I want super VGA! vga sucks...
JEB
Snail wrote:
>
> In article <329799e...@news.ns.net>, sjm...@ns.net says...
> >
> >I'm having a different problem under Windows 95, it says "Error-Unable
> >to allocate primary video buffer-aborting". I'm using a Diamond
> >Stealth video board.
> >
> I get the feeling that the diamond boards are the problem....I have a
> diamond stealth 3200.....and i get a small black screen and my machine hangs
> if I try to run Red alert under 95...Dos works but the graphics are cruddy...
I am having a bit of a small problem with my Matrox card.
It is starting to appear that this "windoze 95" saving the gaming future
is a load of crap. I used to run DOS games with NO intervention in the
video setup at all. Now we have all these problems with directx 2 and
directx 3 and this vesa and that vesa under windoze 95 with games.
If this is really supposed to be a step forward, gawd help us.
If a major designer of games, Westwood, can not get a new release to
work on a Diamond card (a major card manufacturer) because of the
problems within windoze 95, this is a load of crap.
What kind of card(s) do they expect that we are all going to buy?
Are we now going to have to buy a new video card for each and every game
because the major name card that we have will not work with the latest
incarnation of MS's directx driver, which is needed to run under the MS
windoze 95 OS?????
This is bunk...plain and simple.
Since this "miracle" gaming OS...the future...we have NEVER had so many
problems...NEVER.
They need to settle on a standard or give us back our reliable DOS and
forget the "future". The past was better than this.
JEB
Erik Buljan
That's funny, I was just reading all of these posts and thinking the same
thing. DirectX basically screws up the promise that Windows is supposed to
solve all of our hardware configuration problems. You used to be able to
assume that if your video and sound cards worked in Win95 that they would
work with every Windows app. Not true anymore!
JEB <oz...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in article <329849...@ix.netcom.com>...
Chad Fairchild
In article <3297D5...@freenet.tlh.fl.us>, whi...@freenet.tlh.fl.us
says...
>
>Robert Holt wrote:
>>
>> I was so excited to get home and try out Red Alert in SVGA...I get it
>> installed, install DirectX 3.0 and the game...and as soon as I start the
>> game, this screen comes up in 640x400 (which is what it's supposed to do)
>> that says..."Please Stand By..." And it sits there...and then my CDROM
>> resets. And I have to turn the computer off-- it's hung.
>>
>> I reboot, try it again, and this time it plays a short video clip-- it
>> works PERFECTLY-- sound, resolution, etc-- but as soon as the second
>> screen comes up, it says "Please Stand By..." and just hangs there. It
>> never gives me the main menu.
>>
>> I've tried re-installing DirectX 3, even went back to DirectX 2-- to no
>> avail. I have a pretty standard system:
>>
>> Intel Atlantis motherboard with on-board Crystal sound card (works FINE
>> with everything else!)
>> P5/133 with 32 Megs
>> Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM with 2MB
The problem is the diamond GT drivers are not fully directx compatible. This
pissed me off but what u have to do is uninstall the gt drivers, reinstall
the drivers that come on the windows 95 disk, and THEN run the directx
install program, this will update the drivers and you'll be able to run the
program, however you cannot use the gt drivers untill diamond fixes this
problem.
All the best...
Boomer
Wayne Hixson
> Snail wrote:
> I am having a bit of a small problem with my Matrox card.
> It is starting to appear that this "windoze 95" saving the gaming future
> is a load of crap. I used to run DOS games with NO intervention in the
> video setup at all. Now we have all these problems with directx 2 and
> directx 3 and this vesa and that vesa under windoze 95 with games.
>
> If this is really supposed to be a step forward, gawd help us.
First, I believe VESA issues are related only to DOS games, not Win 95. I
know that it is required for Quake, which is a DOS game.
My experience with Win 95 vs. DOS is different. I always had more
problems with DOS games. Sound problems with my 'non-standard' sound card
made several games unplayable. I was always having to tweek my config.sys
file to meet DOS games memory requirements. While DOS4GW has helped, it
is far from a panacea. VESA problems with my video card made it
impossible to run parts of Warcraft II (DOS) or Heroes of Might and Magic
(DOS). What a difference with Win 95 games! If my sound and video are
supported by Win 95, there is a very high chance the game will work right
out of the box. When I got HOMM for Win 95, it was so much more stable it
wasn't funny. The only problem with Win 95 games now for me is Direct3D
compatibility, but I expect that to be worked out in the next couple
months. I hope your problems are resolved soon!
Steve Moore
JEB <oz...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>Are we now going to have to buy a new video card for each and every game
>because the major name card that we have will not work with the latest
>incarnation of MS's directx driver, which is needed to run under the MS
>windoze 95 OS?????
Good question... do we blame the video card manfacturers for not
getting driver support out fast enough, Westwood for using it before
the driver support is there, or Microsoft for releasing this stuff
before they have wide support from the video card companies? Is
replacing my Diamond 2000 with some other companies card going to
really solve these problems long-term? I kind of doubt it...
>This is bunk...plain and simple.
>Since this "miracle" gaming OS...the future...we have NEVER had so many
>problems...NEVER.
>
>They need to settle on a standard or give us back our reliable DOS and
>forget the "future". The past was better than this.
I agree... question- do you have to play Red Alert under Win 95 to get
the higher resolution graphics? Otherwise I'm quite happy to play it
under DOS.
Rob Sanheim
On Sun, 24 Nov 1996 19:36:56 GMT, sjm...@ns.net (Steve Moore) wrote:
>I agree... question- do you have to play Red Alert under Win 95 to get
>the higher resolution graphics? Otherwise I'm quite happy to play it
>under DOS.
Yes, SVGA graphics are only under win95.
And I'd just like to add, I've had no video problems whatsoever in
win95 with my Number Nine 550 graphics card. Just to show that RA is
working for *someone*. :)
------------------------------------------------
Rob Sanheim - aka "Bez" rob...@execpc.com
Mark Lanza
[various problem descriptions all snipped]
I had bad problems but *** FIXED *** them. I'm using a Number 9
Vision 771 card, which uses an S3 968 chip. All I had to do was use
Westwood's setup program to change the video resolution from 640*400
to 640*480.
I kinda backed into this fix. I had been running the #9 drivers and
RA had screwed-up blitting trouble when scrolling, so I tried the
generic S3 driver. Unfortunately, the S3 driver made the problem much
worse (dead black screen when running RA). I checked the printed
manual and found a description of the black screen problem, with the
above fix that worked. I then put back my #9 drivers (and ditched the
SDD Formerly Known As Univbe that I had tried in desperation). It
stayed fixed.
Whee, back to getting my butt kicked... hope this helps somebody (and
hooray to Westwood for documenting the fix).
Mark the zo...@a.crl.com
SLB
On 24 Nov 1996 19:13:09 GMT, boo...@atlantic.net (Chad Fairchild)
wrote:
Here is a better idea....dont use diamond drivers!!! If you have the
Diamond stealth vram,you probably have the S3 968 chip. From control
panel just configure it to use the S3 968 setting. To set your refresh
setting, just run the dos utilities {that came with your diamond}...it
will load your refresh that you setup when Win95 loads.
Richard Wesson
Well, not to defend Win95 TOO heartily, but Diamond drivers are well
known to suck. Fine cards, terrible drivers. A couple of my friends
have been screwed by problems caused by their drivers.
Tho it seems Westwood ought've tested for Diamond problems, and Trident
as well.
-- wesson
(wes...@cse.ogi.edu)
Fred Louderman
C
>
> The problem is the diamond GT drivers are not fully directx compatible. This
> pissed me off but what u have to do is uninstall the gt drivers, reinstall
> the drivers that come on the windows 95 disk, and THEN run the directx
> install program, this will update the drivers and you'll be able to run the
> program, however you cannot use the gt drivers untill diamond fixes this
> problem.
> All the best...
>
I've given up on the gt drivers a long time ago, too many games need the directx
>>>>>>>>>>> fred louderman
>>>>>>>>>>>
Choy Yat Kin
Hi Steve,
: I'm having a different problem under Windows 95, it says "Error-Unable
: to allocate primary video buffer-aborting". I'm using a Diamond
: Stealth video board.
How many RAM do you have on your video card? (1MB, 2MB or 4MB?) Next qn
is at resolution are you running in? I suspects this problem is caused
by insufficent video memory.
regards,
yat kin
*sigh* ... the game is not out in Singapore yet ... guess I have to wait.
JIR-SHYR (JOHN) CHEN
>>I'm having a different problem under Windows 95, it says "Error-Unable
>>to allocate primary video buffer-aborting". I'm using a Diamond
>>Stealth video board.
>>
>diamond stealth 3200.....and i get a small black screen and my machine hangs
>if I try to run Red alert under 95...Dos works but the graphics are cruddy...
I'm using a Diamond Stealth 2001 series. It didn't work either until I picked
up some the newest drivers at Diamond's web site. Now it works great.
-John
Ben Robinson
>
>If this is really supposed to be a step forward, gawd help us.
>work on a Diamond card (a major card manufacturer) because of the
>problems within windoze 95, this is a load of crap.
>What kind of card(s) do they expect that we are all going to buy?
>
>because the major name card that we have will not work with the latest
>incarnation of MS's directx driver, which is needed to run under the MS
>windoze 95 OS?????
>
>Since this "miracle" gaming OS...the future...we have NEVER had so many
>problems...NEVER.
>
>They need to settle on a standard or give us back our reliable DOS and
>forget the "future". The past was better than this.
>
Yeah, I have to agree with this.
I have a Stealth 64 VRAM and it was the most compatible card going
under DOS. All of a sudden Bill 'I'm a megalomaniac disguised as a
total dork' Gates comes along, decides he wants a piece of the gaming
action, along with every other fucking market in the world he's got
his dirty, shit-stained fingers in and everything's a total nightmare!
I've had problems with every DirectX game I've ever installed.
Why can't Gates just leave gaming to the pro's who know what's going
on, and keep his stupid four-eyed head out of it?
The fact that DirectX is already up to version 3 in only about 6
months shows how much it sucks.
There's only one thing for it, we'll have to kill Gates and remove his
wife's (if the geeky slimeball has one) ovaries to ensure the
termination of the bloodline.
Regards
Ben
These are my personal views and not those of The Bank
of Scotland.
Ben Robinson
LAN Manager (Bank of Scotland)
Michael Wong
In article <329849...@ix.netcom.com>, oz...@ix.netcom.com says...
>Are we now going to have to buy a new video card for each and every game
>because the major name card that we have will not work with the latest
>incarnation of MS's directx driver, which is needed to run under the MS
>windoze 95 OS?????
That's worse than the sound card autodetect routines (also known as
system-crashers) of the DOS days? Or the idiotic ten-item multi-config boot
menus that I used to have when I used DOS? Or the total lack of 3D video
acceleration under DOS?
>This is bunk...plain and simple.
>Since this "miracle" gaming OS...the future...we have NEVER had so many
>problems...NEVER.
Total B.S. Since the dawn of time, certain games have always been buggy on
certain brands of video cards (even name brands). This has always been a
problem; hell, Duke Nukem 3D came out last year and my friend couldn't get it
to work in SVGA on his ATI Mach64 video card until version 1.3 came out. What
imaginary dream world are you living in, where DOS games have always lived
harmoniously with hardware?
>They need to settle on a standard or give us back our reliable DOS and
>forget the "future". The past was better than this.
You want the past? Go back there and leave everybody else alone. Play Castle
Wolfenstein forever and be happy. In the meantime, I need to find a damn store
in my little burg (here in Nowhere, Ontario) which stocks Red Alert.
B Morphin
What I hate about Direct X is:
Every game nowadys seems to want to install Direct X.
Messages pop up stating that they have a newer version but the version
numbere many times is the same or the on e on the computer already is
newer.
With a Millineum, you always then have to re-install the mil. drivers,
probably the same for many other vid. cards.
You don't know for sure that when you upgrade to a newer version that
your not screwing up another program using a different version.
It's not like there's v2 and v3 but there's many sub versions that
update certain modules. This is the problem, their updating the
sub-areas to much and creating a big mess.
Q.B.M.
Mike Farnsworth
Ben Robinson <BenRo...@bosts.com> wrote in article
<32997fdd.261602143@firewall>...
> >
> >If this is really supposed to be a step forward, gawd help us.
> >If a major designer of games, Westwood, can not get a new release to
> >work on a Diamond card (a major card manufacturer) because of the
> >problems within windoze 95, this is a load of crap.
> >What kind of card(s) do they expect that we are all going to buy?
> >
> >Are we now going to have to buy a new video card for each and every game
> >because the major name card that we have will not work with the latest
> >incarnation of MS's directx driver, which is needed to run under the MS
> >windoze 95 OS?????
> >
> >This is bunk...plain and simple.
> >Since this "miracle" gaming OS...the future...we have NEVER had so many
> >problems...NEVER.
> >
> >They need to settle on a standard or give us back our reliable DOS and
> >forget the "future". The past was better than this.
> >
> >JEB
>
> Yeah, I have to agree with this.
>
> I have a Stealth 64 VRAM and it was the most compatible card going
> under DOS. All of a sudden Bill 'I'm a megalomaniac disguised as a
> total dork' Gates comes along, decides he wants a piece of the gaming
> action, along with every other fucking market in the world he's got
> his dirty, shit-stained fingers in and everything's a total nightmare!
> I've had problems with every DirectX game I've ever installed.
>
Diamond cards, in case you've NEVER been on the internet, are well known to
suck. Poor drivers, poor support, poor compatibility. You ever hear of
the Viper? GT Drivers? Trying to get a knowledgable Diamond tech support
representative who knows what a "refresh rate" is?
> Why can't Gates just leave gaming to the pro's who know what's going
> on, and keep his stupid four-eyed head out of it?
>
> The fact that DirectX is already up to version 3 in only about 6
> months shows how much it sucks.
>
No, it's the fact that they're listening to what game designers are asking
for and implementing them at an incredible pace. That's why game designers
are writing for it....
Michael Payne
>In article <3297D5...@freenet.tlh.fl.us>, whi...@freenet.tlh.fl.us
>says...
>>
>>Robert Holt wrote:
>>>
>>> I was so excited to get home and try out Red Alert in SVGA...I get it
>>> installed, install DirectX 3.0 and the game...and as soon as I start the
>>> game, this screen comes up in 640x400 (which is what it's supposed to do)
>>> that says..."Please Stand By..." And it sits there...and then my CDROM
>>> resets. And I have to turn the computer off-- it's hung.
>>>
>>> I reboot, try it again, and this time it plays a short video clip-- it
>>> works PERFECTLY-- sound, resolution, etc-- but as soon as the second
>>> screen comes up, it says "Please Stand By..." and just hangs there. It
>>> never gives me the main menu.
>>>
>>> I've tried re-installing DirectX 3, even went back to DirectX 2-- to no
>>> avail. I have a pretty standard system:
>>>
>>> Intel Atlantis motherboard with on-board Crystal sound card (works FINE
>>> with everything else!)
>>> P5/133 with 32 Megs
>>> Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM with 2MB
>
>The problem is the diamond GT drivers are not fully directx compatible. This
>pissed me off but what u have to do is uninstall the gt drivers, reinstall
>the drivers that come on the windows 95 disk, and THEN run the directx
>install program, this will update the drivers and you'll be able to run the
>program, however you cannot use the gt drivers untill diamond fixes this
>problem.
> All the best...
> Boomer
>
I wouldn't hold my breath for that. As usually they're off to bigger
and better things/
Mike
ak...@vnet.ibm.com
In <578td9$7...@crcnis3.unl.edu>, ckov...@unlinfo.unl.edu (cassidy kovanda) writes:>: >
>: >I'm having a different problem under Windows 95, it says "Error-Unable
>: >to allocate primary video buffer-aborting". I'm using a Diamond
>: >Stealth video board.
>: >
>: I get the feeling that the diamond boards are the problem....I have a
>: diamond stealth 3200.....and i get a small black screen and my machine hangs
>: if I try to run Red alert under 95...Dos works but the graphics are cruddy...
>
>frustrating...
>
>I tried checking the trident site, but couldn't find any updated
>drivers for Direct-X...hrmmmm.
>
>I want super VGA! vga sucks...
>
I Have similar problems with my stealth 64 VRAM. When I first loaded RA it told me
that I have out of date video and sound driver (SB16). I was using 2 year old SB16
drivers, and the newest diamond GT drivers. So, I downloaded new SB16 drivers
and generic S3 drivers, This "seemed" to satisfy RA, the install didn't complain about
either of the drivers.
BUT, RA hangs my system at random points in the game!!! It hangs during the game,
it hangs in between missions, and even during video!!!
I call Westwood support and they say I have to wait for Diamond to get new drivers that
support directx3.0. HELLO, directx3.0 just left beta test a month ago!!! Diamond won't
have drivers for another 2 years!!!
I love C&C, and westwood has never done me wrong until now. The tech guy at westood
said to call diamond and complain to them...it isn't diamonds fault!!! I have one of the
most popular video cards in the world, make the software work with it damnit!!!!
If anyone has any solutions, please email asap!!!
I tried running in DOS, but the F@*^ing savegames arent compatible!!!
Chris Akey ak...@vnet.ibm.com
j...@unifiedtech.com
In article <329849...@ix.netcom.com>,
JEB <oz...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> Snail wrote:
> >
> > In article <329799e...@news.ns.net>, sjm...@ns.net says...
> > >
> > >I'm having a different problem under Windows 95, it says "Error-Unable
> > >to allocate primary video buffer-aborting". I'm using a Diamond
> > >Stealth video board.
> > >
> > I get the feeling that the diamond boards are the problem....I have a
> > diamond stealth 3200.....and i get a small black screen and my machine hangs
> > if I try to run Red alert under 95...Dos works but the graphics are cruddy...
> This is bunk...plain and simple.
> Since this "miracle" gaming OS...the future...we have NEVER had so many
> problems...NEVER.
>
> They need to settle on a standard or give us back our reliable DOS and
> forget the "future". The past was better than this.
>
> JEB
We have 4 computers on a net in our house. Graphics wise we have 2 ATI, 1 STB,
and 1 Diamond Stealth. I can't get Red Alert win95 version to run properly on
the Diamond at all [ weird colors, no screen refresh, etc. ]. The ATIs are
fine. The STB was fine but seems to have blown up [ random palette swapping in
just about every resolution except 800x600 truecolor.]
I'm getting a new STB 128 today to replace the faulty one [ hope it is the card,
sheesh!]. The Diamond ? who knows, have to see what comes out of
Microprose/Diamond Multimedia.
On top of this junk, Red Alert installs directx3, which Masters of Orion II
seems to take exception to. So either I have to switch versions of directX when
I switch games, or I have to stick with directx2 [ red alert *seems* to work
okay with this ].
Not to mention the headaches involved in getting the LS 128, a SIIG scsi
adapter, and a SB Awe32 pnp card to work together without stepping on each
others toes.
Plug and Play my ass. Plug it in in 5 minutes, play with Windows95 device
settings forever. ARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
.
.....and I'm a professional computer geek. Must be ten times worse for those in
different fields.
Jeffrey Powell
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JEB
I'm with you....ARRRRRrrrrrggggggGGGGGGHHHHHH
JEB
Triple Jay (John Jackson Jr.)
I have a system with a Number Nine Motion 771.....had the same problem
(Massive Screen Corruption in game). Checked the Red Alert Win 95
setup, and neither option was checked. I checked 600 x 480, and now the
game works just fine. Bomb-Ass f-in game!!!
J.J.
Preditor
To all you bone heads that love Microshaft and Windoze95, hope your glad
our buddy Bill has saved the gaming community like he is the network
operating system community!! I am not normally profane, but this
DirectX SHIT really pisses me off!!!
signed -- Network Engineer who has built some huge LANs/WANs/and MANs.
!! I pitty the inexperienced !!
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michael legner
The game isn't supposed to run at more than 640x480 and
at that resolution true color (24 bpp) is possible with
so little as 1 MB video memory. But I don't think RA
uses that many colors (does it?) so even 512KB might
be ok. What about VESA? Does RA requie VESA 2.0?
Michael
Choy Yat Kin (yatkin@elm) wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> : I'm having a different problem under Windows 95, it says "Error-Unable
> : to allocate primary video buffer-aborting". I'm using a Diamond
> : Stealth video board.
> How many RAM do you have on your video card? (1MB, 2MB or 4MB?) Next qn
> is at resolution are you running in? I suspects this problem is caused
> by insufficent video memory.
> regards,
> yat kin
> *sigh* ... the game is not out in Singapore yet ... guess I have to wait.
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Atis Kalnins
Robert Holt (w...@well.com) wrote:
: I was so excited to get home and try out Red Alert in SVGA...I get it
: installed, install DirectX 3.0 and the game...and as soon as I start the
: game, this screen comes up in 640x400 (which is what it's supposed to do)
: that says..."Please Stand By..." And it sits there...and then my CDROM
: resets. And I have to turn the computer off-- it's hung.
: I reboot, try it again, and this time it plays a short video clip-- it
: works PERFECTLY-- sound, resolution, etc-- but as soon as the second
: screen comes up, it says "Please Stand By..." and just hangs there. It
: never gives me the main menu.
: I've tried re-installing DirectX 3, even went back to DirectX 2-- to no
: avail. I have a pretty standard system:
: Intel Atlantis motherboard with on-board Crystal sound card (works FINE
: with everything else!)
: P5/133 with 32 Megs
: Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM with 2MB
: I'm using an old Pro Audio Spectrum's SCSI interface with a NEC Triple
: Speed CDROM drive. It works perfectly with everything. I have to load
: the dos drivers, though, or Win95 doesn't see it. Could this be what's
: causing the problem? Does DirectX 3 have some kind of 32-bit direct CDROM
: accesing routine? I've got plenty of games that use DirectX 2 that work
: perfect with my CDROM under windows...
: Is anyone else having this awful problem? I can't play the game in
: Windows, therefore: no SVGA.
: I can play it in DOS, but 320X400 is horrible...why couldn't they have
: made an SVGA DOS version?
: Thanks for any help!
: Robert Holt <rh...@npr.org>
: Webmaster <http://www.npr.org>
: National Public Radio <w...@well.com>
: PS: I even tried running it in NT 4.0 (directX included) and it doesn't
: work...
I have the same problems with DirectX.
I had DirectX installed for the Diablo demo and
then red alert said it wanted to re-load the drivers.
ARGH!
It re-loaded and I was dreaming of using a Gap Generator
and Sub's and cool stuff like that. Then, the thing finished
loading and reboots. I wait patiently and launch the application
and I get a black screen and nothing else. I change
from 400 to 480 and the same thing happens. I'm really
unhappy with the whole thing. I couldn't wait, so I went to DOS, my friend
of old, and alas I was able to get in. I will re-visit why it didn't work,
but I know I blame Windows 95 and Westwood for not having any more documentation
on this. Westwood should know it would cause problems. I'm a UNIX admin
and I know PC's inside and out and realize that the average user
will not be able to do this on their own. It will start to get a bad rep
if this keeps happening. I'm really mad.
I'll post what I did to fix it when I get finished with the game.
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David Thompson
Man, no wonder those CNAs aren't very well respected in the
industry. :)
I find it laughable that whenever a DOS game comes out that
crashes constantly (BC3000, for instance), it's the software, but when
there's a problem with a Win95 game, it's Bill Gates maniacal desire
to screw us all that's at the root.
Here's a few examples of the shoe being on the other foot:
1) Daggerfall is definitely more unstable in DOS than it is in '95.
Running in on my W95 has produced only 3 crashes in 60+ hours of play.
2) Most current reports on Moo2 are that it's more stable in W95
than it is in DOS (though it's a bit a slower there too).
3) Heroes of Might & Magic 2, a native W95 game with DirectX
drivers, runs without any problems at all, clean as a whistle. Ditto
the Enemy Nations demo that I had on here recently.
But of course, no DOS game has ever crashed. Every game was a
stable as a rock before nasty Windows'95 came along. Riiiiiight....
Besides, if you're having problems with one of these hybrid
DOS/W95 games, run the damn thing in DOS mode. Pretty simply to set
up, especially for you mighty hackers.
On Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:34:54 -0500, Preditor
<*pred...@ix.netcom.com*> wrote:
>To all you bone heads that love Microshaft and Windoze95, hope your glad
>our buddy Bill has saved the gaming community like he is the network
>operating system community!! I am not normally profane, but this
>DirectX SHIT really pisses me off!!!
>
>signed -- Network Engineer who has built some huge LANs/WANs/and MANs.
>
>!! I pitty the inexperienced !!
>
<snip>
Chris Fanning
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic Steve Moore <sjm...@ns.net> wrote:
: JEB <oz...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
: >Are we now going to have to buy a new video card for each and every game
: >because the major name card that we have will not work with the latest
: >incarnation of MS's directx driver, which is needed to run under the MS
: >windoze 95 OS?????
: Good question... do we blame the video card manfacturers for not
: getting driver support out fast enough, Westwood for using it before
: the driver support is there, or Microsoft for releasing this stuff
: before they have wide support from the video card companies? Is
: replacing my Diamond 2000 with some other companies card going to
: really solve these problems long-term? I kind of doubt it...
Microsoft for putting out so many damned revisions of DirectX.
Video card manufacturers for not being able to keep up with Microsoft.
Westwood for using a Microsoft technology that changes every few months.
Though, in the case of people with Diamond products, I'd give more weight to
#2.
To the people with Diamond cards that are having problems with their drivers
and DirectX, try S3's video drivers. You'll lose features and possibly
speed, but it'll probably be more compatible.
Chris
Andre_Steffens
On Mon, 25 Nov 1996 17:11:52 GMT, mmp...@bv.net (Michael Payne)
wrote:
>>
>>The problem is the diamond GT drivers are not fully directx compatible. This
>>pissed me off but what u have to do is uninstall the gt drivers, reinstall
>>the drivers that come on the windows 95 disk, and THEN run the directx
>>install program, this will update the drivers and you'll be able to run the
>>program, however you cannot use the gt drivers untill diamond fixes this
>>problem.
>> All the best...
>> Boomer
>>
>I wouldn't hold my breath for that. As usually they're off to bigger
>and better things/
>Mike
I reinstalled the diamond GT (.325) drivers after installing DirectX
3.0 (I have the 2mb Video Vram) and no problem here, with any directX
dependant game.
Joe Howes
Andre_Steffens <an...@euronet.nl> wrote in article
this
> >>problem.
> >>
> >and better things/
After the HUGE fiasco with the Stealth 24 drivers for windows 3.xx a
couple of years ago, and getting to talk to their QA head at COMDEX, I
swore I'd never buy another Diamond product again as long as I lived.
I recommend to everybody to have Diamond as the last resort on their wish
list of video cards. No that their hardware is necessarily bad...just that
you gotta suspect a company who appoints a guy to head of QA who is
unfamiliar with the concept of typing the name of a program at a DOS prompt
to start the program... :)
Christoph Pelich
Hi Folks !
I got the german version yesterday and - believe me - no troubles at all !!
I installed the game under Win95 - easy going.
DirectX installed - only one little problem with a file name.
Nothing serious.
I launched the game under Win95 - and everything was excellent.
Maybe, most problems will arise from graphic cards and missing vendor support.
But the error described in the original posting is listed in the chapter troubleshooting.
Perhaps, he should have a look there.
Chris
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michael legner
Yes! I got the Swedish version yesterday, it was version 1.04.
No problems at all this far. (Millenium 4MB / 64MB / PPRO-200)
I am a bit pissed at their choosing the 640x400 as a standard
graphics mode (I guess it was because of the 320x200 low
res mode, compatibility you know). They should have done
a real 640x480 version.
Michael
> Chris
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In article <57dop3$h...@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com>, *pred...@ix.netcom.com*
says...
>To all you bone heads that love Microshaft and Windoze95, hope your glad
>our buddy Bill has saved the gaming community like he is the network
>operating system community!! I am not normally profane, but this
>DirectX SHIT really pisses me off!!!
I use Solaris, DOS, win95, NetWare, and winNT regularly and while each OS has
its strengths, win95 is the best platform for games. It plays DirectX games,
it has excellent DOS box game support, and it has the failsafe MS-DOS mode
which can be activated through a shortcut if so desired. If you have found
another OS which is better at playing a combination of DirectX and DOS games,
please inform us all.
>signed -- Network Engineer who has built some huge LANs/WANs/and MANs.
signed -- Network Engineer who also plays games, and who knows that DirectX
actually has nothing to do with network stability or functionality.
Tim Coolong
> The fact that DirectX is already up to version 3 in only about 6
> months shows how much it sucks.
>
> wife's (if the geeky slimeball has one) ovaries to ensure the
> termination of the bloodline.
>
> Regards
>
> Ben
>
> These are my personal views and not those of The Bank
> of Scotland.
>
> Ben Robinson
> LAN Manager (Bank of Scotland)
>
Thats not a very nice thing to say.
Juergen P. Meier
hmm, not exactly "very", i think...
Jason D. Summerfield
Choy Yat Kin (yatkin@elm) wrote:
: : to allocate primary video buffer-aborting". I'm using a Diamond
: : Stealth video board.
Go to Diamond's page and make sure you have the latest version of the drivers.
I got my card over Thanksgiving, and the drivers they sent me still didn't
have DirectX support. I downloaded from Diamond, and no problems with RA (at
least :)
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> Go to Diamond's page and make sure you have the latest version of the drivers.
> I got my card over Thanksgiving, and the drivers they sent me still didn't
> have DirectX support. I downloaded from Diamond, and no problems with RA (at
> least :)
Are all the Diamond Cards like that? I was about to jump in for a
Diamond 3d 2000. Support DirectX it says.