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  • G400 + drivers problems + PCI bridge

    Afternoon all,

    Big problems here with my G400 32Mb, dual head, drivers are 5.15


    G400 160Mb ram
    GA-5AX mobo
    Win95 OSR2
    Generic PCI NIC
    SBPro Generic rockwell modem

    It installs fine and OpenGL and DirectX look like they behave correctly and the old 1.01 Final Reality demo runs fine, BUT _all_ scores are VERY low (lower than a Voodoo 2 + Millenium II combo).

    When ever I run HalfLife, QuakeIII Test, they all run slowly at first, then just die. Typically between 5 seconds and a few minutes. No GPFs, no mess, no lock ups, they just die. On top of that AvP produces massive screen corruption (lots of white
    blocks when text and foreground stuff should be).

    After poking around the resources for the G400 I noticed that ALL the memory ranges used are also assigned to the PCI-to-PCI bridge, all three block of memory. I've tried to reassign the memory ranges to above and below the PCI-to-PCI bridge, but every time i'm greeted with either a frozen machine at some point in the bootup process, or if it boots, a corrupted pallet and icons that are either in silhouette or just plain wrong.

    changing AGP aperture, musmastering, AGP 1x or 2x, screen resolution makes no difference.

    When I reinstall either/both the drivers for the PCI bridge or the G400 they always choose totally overlapping memory ranges.

    My question is: is this memory range sharing between the G400 and the PCI bridge stuff supposed to happen?


    Ideas people?

    robert.
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    Robert Hodkinson, SF nut and a Render-head. www.geocities.com/SoHo/Coffeehouse/5939
    reply email is bag.it@cableol.co.uk

  • #2
    Well, the easy one is AvP. The latest game patch should fix the corruptions for you.

    The other stuff could be trickier...
    First thing would be, have you added the USBUPP package to your 95b? It is required for AGP to work at all (AGP didn't exist when 95 came out).
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    • #3
      The USB supplement was installed, right after Win95, followed by the mother board drivers, followed by the AGP drivers, followed by the G400 drivers.

      robert.

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      Robert Hodkinson, SF nut and a Render-head. www.geocities.com/SoHo/Coffeehouse/5939
      reply email is bag.it@cableol.co.uk

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      • #4
        Kruzin,He's got the 5.15 driver's.I thought
        those were for the RRGS.I could be wrong
        which I probably am.Oh well I'm trying.


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        • #5
          5.15 is intended for RR-G/Marvel users, but many people are using them without one of these. For the most part, they are the same, but it would be worthwhile to at least try 5.13 to see if it helps...
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          • #6
            Bag it
            The apparent memory overlap that you see with W95 OSR 2.X between the AGP and the PCI bridge is perfectly normal. This is a problem of incorrect memory useage reporting by W95. The problem was cleared up in W98. This does not affect the AGP functional use. You just have to ensure that you have installed the full USBSUP to properly setup USB and AGP in W95 OSR 2.x. e-mail me if you have any questions about the required files, I've archived all of them just in case I ever needed them.
            Ron

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