Problem with DX7 and Opera 3.6

[John Booth]

Just downloaded the new DirectX 7.0 and installed it. Opera is now
totally unusable
because the transfer rate drops to almost zero. Internet Explorer 5.0
and Netscape Communicator 4.61 work beautifully.

Has anyone else experienced this and if so is there a fix?

[Robert Carnegie]

>===== Original Message From John Booth <jwb...@lanl.gov> =====

DX7 came out Wednesday, I don't think anyone else can have had time
to try it!

I haven't, and from what you say I don't want to - though it could be
that it wasn't DirectX 7 that caused your problem - but since Microsoft's
later Winsocks and/or DUNs require that you change the 'Synchronous
DNS' checkbox to checked in Opera Preferences -> Advanced, maybe
their DirectX breaks Opera in kinda the same way.

So try that click, report back on whether this or anything else you
tried works, and then tell the US Department of Justice that
Microsoft is still shipping upgrades that break other companies'
software (RealPlayer was another).

Robert Carnegie
Glasgow, Scotland

[Jud Fink]

>===== Original Message From Robert Carnegie <user.r...@operamail.com>
[snip]

>So try that click, report back on whether this or anything else you
>tried works, and then tell the US Department of Justice that
>Microsoft is still shipping upgrades that break other companies'
>software (RealPlayer was another).
>
>Robert Carnegie
>Glasgow, Scotland

Guess it's one of those dubious honors that let you know the Big Man has
finally noticed you - first they put out a "tweak kit" that lets IE do
exotic
stuff like zoom; then they send their software to break your software.
:-d

Jud

[John Booth]

Tried your suggestion and no go. Reinstalled Opera 3.6 and it now runs but
the command line icons do not show, instead all you get is the text ie.
print, prev, copy, save etc.

Robert Carnegie wrote:

> >===== Original Message From John Booth <jwb...@lanl.gov> =====
> >Just downloaded the new DirectX 7.0 and installed it. Opera is now
> >totally unusable
> >because the transfer rate drops to almost zero. Internet Explorer 5.0
> >and Netscape Communicator 4.61 work beautifully.
> >
> >Has anyone else experienced this and if so is there a fix?
>
> DX7 came out Wednesday, I don't think anyone else can have had time
> to try it!
>
> I haven't, and from what you say I don't want to - though it could be
> that it wasn't DirectX 7 that caused your problem - but since Microsoft's
> later Winsocks and/or DUNs require that you change the 'Synchronous
> DNS' checkbox to checked in Opera Preferences -> Advanced, maybe
> their DirectX breaks Opera in kinda the same way.
>

[Tor Iver Wilhelmsen]

John Booth <jwb...@lanl.gov> writes:

> Tried your suggestion and no go. Reinstalled Opera 3.6 and it now runs but
> the command line icons do not show, instead all you get is the text ie.
> print, prev, copy, save etc.

Perhaps a conflict between your graphic card drivers and DX7? Check
the web site of the manufacturer. DX7 and Opera coexists well here on
a Matrox Millennium G200 - though Matrox Diagnostics insists I am
using an old version of DirectX. :-)

--
Tor Iver Wilhelmsen <to...@multinett.no>
So the fruits of your labors have fermented into wine
And the sweat that was dripped is now the honey of the hive
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