I wrote a game on my win98 system, Win98 Voodoo 3 Athlon 550 135 fps but when i put it on my new XP system WinXP Athlon 1.5 gig 0.4 fps Whats the deal, it loads the program fine, and appears to run in hardware mode, its just super slow on xp. And heres a good one, i did a search in the help file for "OpenGL" and found no matches? Is there some other step to put a program into hardware mode on XP?

Do you have up-to-date drivers for your video card?

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Well, its an S3 Graphics ProSavage


I looked up the new drivers, and there are 3 different ProSavage cards.

They have a utility to tell which one you have, but it only runs in pure dos mode. How do you do that in xp?

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Original post by Eber Kain
They have a utility to tell which one you have, but it only runs in pure dos mode. How do you do that in xp?

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DOS is completely seperate from the NT kernel (the 9x kernel ran on top of DOS, that''s why DOS was still there), so you''re out of luck. Maybe there''s a sticker on the actual video card or something? Check to make sure your video card even has NT/2K/XP drivers (it may not, but most newer cards do; I''m not sure exactly how new your card is ).

If you can''t find drivers for that card your choices are:

Don''t use OpenGL (that would just plain suck )

Don''t use a NT based version of Windows (that''s a hassle).

Get a newer video card (this assumes you have spare cash lying around)

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If you still have a boot disk for 9x you can use that to get to DOS.

You could also try all three drivers...

The XP system is about a month old. mabey a little longer.

Well, His boot disk won''t work if he has converted into NTFS... But the disk should work okay if he uses FAT

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If you format a disk using XP, you still have the option to create a win me startup disk. Just click the option on the format dialog.

The utility is probably very small, so you only have to copy it to the created boot disk and execute it after booting.

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Original post by Eber Kain
I wrote a game on my win98 system,

And heres a good one, i did a search in the help file for "OpenGL" and found no matches?

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Pop over to http://www.glsetup.com/ for a useful proggy to check your drivers.

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Is there some other step to put a program into hardware mode on XP?

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That''s odd, I''ve found the help files in XP to be full of useful things like "why piracy is bad and why you shouldn''t do it" (useful to know when trying to install a second OS.) I''m sure "why DirectX is good and portability is evil" will be in the help files somewhere.

lol, or why opensource is bad, and why privacy isnt needed (my firewall has warned me of dxdiag trying to connect to a microsoft server)

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