New card Probs.

[PWBS]

Hi peoples,
ok, a question concerning the installation of a graphics card. Three days back, i bought a new card and installed it in my PC. Ok, the thing is, I took the old one out at the same time. Made sense to do this. I installed its drivers and control panel from the CD, then went online and got the latest drivers from the site. Ok, simple enough right?. Better say what card I had and what I updated to here I thinks.
Card I had was a 2d/3d combo based on the voodoo rush chipset, with a 6mb total memory. The new card is a voodoo banshee pci/agp with 16mb on board.
Ok, thing is, I'm not sure if I set this up right. Once I had the new drivers in, and a fresh re-boot, I thought I'd test it with Final Reality. (for those not sure, it’s a benchmarking tool. :O}) Well, It ran like a bag of doggy doo doo. To put it simply. Now I was miffed and couldn't understand why. (should have seen my face. waiting for my graphics to jump outta the screen, like an Intel advert or something. haha.) Anyways, I put DirectX7 in, and still the same. Then I took a look at the DirectX Diagnostic tool, and under "display", the tab for button for AGP support, says "not available". Is this because DirectX doesn’t support AGP, or because I did something wrong?
Something else that was wrong, was that my son couldn't play his Half-life game in Glide, only Direct3D. I read the readme and it says that for the Banshee you must have the latest glide drivers. Well, as I’ve said, I got them all. This leads me to the point of removing the old card at the same time as installing the new one. I went on a reading spree to root the prob, and it says something about leaving the old card in and using what they term, as a glide switch. Otherwise I can’t switch my glide. Ok, now I had lost myself. Hahaha.
So now I don’t know what I must do. I'm only learning this stuff as I need, so I’m not that great at finding the faults when they happen. Basically there’s no real improvement in performance with this new card, and I "WAS" expecting more. Can any of you point me the right way, so I can figure this out??..

Thanks all that read and respond,

PW.......

[BBA]

You are not the only person I have seen with Banshee problems after using a Rush card. The 3DFX drivers for the 2 are not compatible and merely loading the Banshee drivers does not remove the .DLL's from the Rush drivers. I think that is where the problem starts.

I would trey uninstalling all video drivers and setting back to just a VGA adapter. Then search all 3dfx DLL's you can find and remove them from the system. Then search the registry for "3DFX" or "Rush" or whatever the makers brand name is and delete all the entries for them all. Then I would load the new Banshee drivers.

The next easiest way is to rename your windows directory and hide it and install windows fresh again, as in this way:

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/000956.html

Good luck with your project, and as for performance, I believe the Banshee should provide a noticeable improvement over the Rush, but not a miracle.

BBA

[PWBS]

Thanks BBA......I'll Try this and see what happens. :O}. Not that sure on everything, but want to try antways.. Cheers..

PW...

[socalgal]

PWBS

Please do not duplicate post in multiple forums. This makes it difficult for the people responding to keep track of what has already been said/done.

Thanks.

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/Forum4/HTML/001081.html

[PWBS]

Socalgal,
yep, very sorry about that.. *hanging head in shame*. Only reason behind the double post, was that "after" i posted in technical support, i then thought a post in Video Cards and Monitors would be more beneficial. I should have removed the first post then, but i guess i got lazy. Vewy sowwy, and i pwomise I'll never be lazy here again...Forgiven??.. :O}

PW..

[socalgal]

No problem PWBS /forum/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by socalgal (edited 10-18-1999).]

[jokostel]

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[Underclocked]

You definitely need to uninstall Final Reality benchmark and then reinstall and the same may be true for any games with which you may be experiencing difficulties.