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Xentax
I suspect this may have been covered already, but I couldn't find a relevant post Neither my DVD-ROM nor my CD-R/RW drives 'know' when they've been opened and new media is placed inside, even from empty to a 'real' disc.

What Creative says about Windows2k drivers
EddiE314
This is the response i got to an e-mail i sent, i thought it might help some people. Eddie, Windows 2000 is a beta operating system, we do not support beta operating systems so there are no beta drivers available and I would not expect to see any drivers for Windows 2000 from Creative Labs until it is released as a ...

Soldier of Fortune demo
latkey
Does anyone have the same problem as me with the SoF demo, where it hangs my machine up at a grey screen when it starts? I'm using 3. 75 with a TN2U, and any other opengl games work fine. .

Bleem + Windows 2000 (2195)
slkh
Any luck in getting Bleem running on Windows 2000? I failed to get it running. Spec Windows 2000 (2195) Geforce DDR.

new drivers 3dfx voodoo 3 & D3D
christophe
hi, i downloaded the voodoo3 beta drivers and i read D3D idc. . . . etc but the D#D option it's grayed (i can't chek it) and. . . . i play to homeworld but ,i can't play in glide or open glide but in Direct 3D sorry i don't understand i have read on this site (can play in OPglide with Homeworld.

ACPI knowhow
planlos
i got the abit bx6-2 and just updated to the latest bios. im wondering now, if it's worth to switch on the ACPI Enable in Bios, and tell win2k 2195 to use it. . . what's the advantage of it for me? any comments would be welcome.

Acer Scanner 300F
APV_SAV
Anyone able to get this Acer SCSI scanner to work under W2K, please tell me how? TIA

Voodoo2 New NT Drivers
brain_net
About the new retail drivers that 3dfx just posted on their site ( January 31 ), for NT, is there gonna be an update for the win2k drivers that is posted here on this site ? ( V2_NT5_ICD. zip ( i think ), or if we want to try to use the new ones, we just download the drivers, but use the same of.

3.69 and 3.75 Drivers Lock
Sensei
For some reason, if I use either the 3. 69 or the 3. 75 drivers, I get random lockups just sitting at the desktop. I can use 3. 66 all night long and it will never ever lock. Is anyone else having these problems and if so, how'd you fix it? BTW, my specs are: AMD Athlon 650 Gigabyte 7IX 160 MB RAM Riva TNT2 Ultra ( ...

Beta driver site for HP printers
Llion
Hello alltogether, under you will find the official W2k beta-driver site for HP printers (at least laserprinters). If I a page for DJ-Printers, I will post the address here Have fun Llion.


Direct3D with Viper V550 and win2k
Konstantin Zahariev
I read on the compatibility list here that Viper V550 supports Direct3D ONLY with the reference drivers for Riva TNT from NVIDIA. I found working drivers for win2k at Diamond's and NVIDIA sites, but NOT one of them supports neither Direct3D nor AGP.

Problem with Voodoo1 drivers
mikkob
I have Orchid Righteous 3dfx voodoo1 -card. Yep, I know it's old, but I'll still want to use it for a awhile. Those nt5-drivers just don't work, I don't know why? I can see from device Manager that there is a 3d-card with those drivers, but the computer still uses other crappy 2mb 2-d graphics card.

Problems with new V3 win2k beta drivers...
Heifetz
The problem I have with win2k final is that randomly, after a long interval of time, maybe 2-3 days of the computer running, my screen gets GARBLED completely. Rainbow colors fill the screen! This is after I installed the beta win2k v3 drivers.


multimon: tnt2 + s3 virge/vx
nemon
it doesnt work w2k reports that the s3 driver are not working. under w98 it runs fine. my config: abit bp6 elsa erazor iii video s3 virge/vx pci any working config out there?.

/\/\/\ We want to try something new, all read plz (REF: sign
JimmyK
Hiya fellas, Some of us have beent alking about it and figured it would be a good idea to include system specs in our signatures. Below is what I jsut did kinda quickly, but I wanted us to discuss exactly what we should include, like whats pertinent.

Savage4 W2k opengl Quake3
Kensan
Has anyone got opengl drivers that work in W2k for Quake3? I have tried the NT4. 0 ones but get an error that throws me to the desktop when Quake loads. .

Netscape
Llion
Under W2k i have got the feeling that Netscape is very unstable and terrible slow. When I was working under NT, NS was my (by far) preferred browser - now it´s almost impossible to use it (I tried it under all releases and with fresh setups).

UT and 3.75 - TNT2 Ultra AND NO OPENGL
RoBoZeO
All i can get is Direct3d. . nothing else. . in dxdiag agp is now enabled and working. but ut sucks without opengl ect. . . any info please help me Robozeo@ameritech. net.