Re: hardware question

["Mike :\)" <joker18550@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would like to know first of all can he run the game with out being 
networked together?  Also i'd like to know if he is running windows 95 or 
98?  What Direct x drivers is he using?

>From: "Zachary Florian" <icthusianz@ameritech.net>
>Reply-To: klug@klug.armintl.com
>To: <klug@klug.armintl.com>
>Subject: Re: hardware question
>Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 02:01:56 -0500
>
>okay... so here's kinda the real error we get: "windows sucks" but 
>seriously
>the problem is that my friend installed a new mobo and processor (Tyan 
>mobo,
>not sure of it's exact number, & P3 500) he's got a wonderful video card
>(Diamond Viper V770) and 128megs (of possibly 66mHz) RAM... now in windows
>he was having no problems right off the bat... the new configuration was
>slightly slower than that old P2 350, but still acceptable, weird but
>acceptable... anyhow he, a bunch of other friends, and myself decided that
>we'd bring all of our computers over to one person's house and network them
>and play games against each other because it'd be fun to play Rogue Spear
>w/out any lag (vs. Internet play) we had done this once before and this 
>time
>it started out with a couple of problems: i forgot power cables, 3 of the
>first 4 computers there needed NICs... once we got all squared away, or
>almost squared away, my friend's computer really started to misbehave... 
>see
>now here's where an actuall "Windows Wizzard" is needed... everytime we got
>this game up and going (rogue spear) it would be fine until the game
>launched, at which time my friend got a nice blue screen of death stating
>that some Virtual Driver created a problem... everytime... and so he
>reformated, did a bunch of other stuff, and found that his video card 
>wasn't
>completely in the AGP slot... fixed that, problem still existed... so we
>figured that it was the network... left it be... now some of his other 
>games
>won't even run and he keeps getting the Virtual Drivers problem at 
>different
>memory addresses each time...
>
>that's the problem... not that anyone here happens to know much about
>Windows (nor do i expect anyone here to just because it is a Linux User
>Group) but if anyone know's of a possible problem or maybe of a place i
>could find out an answer i'd be very much indebted...
>

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