I try to run Dino Crisis and after a few minutes
of playing,it crashes for sure.
I guess it's something with the 3dfx card,
because in software mode it doesn't crash.
I did a lot of tests,with everything set to the
minimum quality,with no sound,maximum quality,
a lot of combinations playing with both the game's and the card's settings,
different drivers,different directx,
a clean just-after-format install,and I had no luck.
am I the only one with the problem?.

specs:
amd k6-2 500 mhz 64 mb ram,win 98,(I tryed both
first and second edition,I thought "maybe it's a dll
or something",and it crashed anyway).
card: voodoo 3 2000 pci 16 mb.
drivers tested: 3dfx 1.07 and voodoolizer 1.05
directx tested: 7,8 and 9

ah,I tryed changing some bios settings to the safest
(system bios cacheable off,external cache off,bla bla etc)
and even with the card's documentation recomendation
of "video bios shadow and cache off",and it behaved
the same.

almost forgot:
I tryed it with a diamond monster 4mb card
but it was like 1 frame per second! (it's the first time
the monster card dissapoints me by being THAT slow!),
so I didn't have the patience to wait the first
equivalent-to-5-or-so-minutes-of-gameplay to see
if it was going to crash or not.

so,the question is: am I the only one with a problem
with dino crisis and a v3 card? is there a workaround
or something?

ps: playing till the first save point in software mode
and loading from there switching to hardware mode
didn't work: it crashed after a few minutes anyway.

I used to have this problem with Resident Evil 2 for PC... ::)

The EXE file had a bug it it that would cause the game to 'randomly' crash if you were running from the CDROM drive. :P

Solution... :D

Do a FULL HDD install (you usually also had to get a 'no-cd' patch as well - from the 'usual places'...) ;)

Hope this helps! ;D

when it crashes,the game freezes.
In fact,the whole computer freezes,
ctrl+alt+del,alt+f4/tab or ctrl+esc  don't work.
(even num lock or caps lock don't work)
It's a typical reset-needed situation.
It freezes at an image/frame but the
sound keeps going for a couple of seconds.
I tryed without sound,(both disabling it in the
game's settings and removing the sound card,
and it keeps behaving like that).
I checked all the resources of the devices looking
for a conflict,but everything is ok.
I tryed a full install with a no-cd crack,
and it lasted even less than in "normal" conditions.
I think I'll re-build the old trusty pentium 133 mhz
machine just to test it.
It'll be slow but at least I'll know if it's an incompatibility
with the card or with the processor.

another test I did was adding some ram,16 mb,
so I tested it with 80 mb,
and the same thing happened.
I guess I'll have to wait to play it till I upgrade the
computer or "downgrade" to pentium 133 and hope
it works in a playable speed.
(and if the same thing happens,then it's an
incompatibility with the card).
Hmm,I think I'll check ALL the drivers avaiable,
from the oldes to the one before 1.07

Check the heatsink on your V3 after a crash... ;)

Sounds suspiciously like an overheating problem to me... ::)

If not, hmm...no idea? ???

Other games are ok (like ff7 and 8,quake 1 and 2,
re 1,2 and 3,soul reaver,jedi knight,bla bla),and
emulators are running fine too.like snes9x,(the glide
rendering option makes snes games look awesome),
and the epsxe glide/opengl/direct3d plugins work,
so I think the dino crisis crash is not a hardware fault,
it's an incompatibility with the game's code or something.
The card has a fan cooler,and it's not overclocked,
but I'll check it anyway.
I wonder if the weather's temperature at 30 celcius
can cause an overheating.
If the game works the next winter,I'll know it was
the weather :)

NEWS:
I switched the card to another pci slot,
and now it works!. Well,it lasts till the first
save point and doesn't crash in the first 2 minutes of
playing. (it crashed but in the second-almost-succesful try,
after messing a lot with the game's high quality filter on/off
shortcut key,and I was beyond the first save point,something
that was impossible).
I think it is playable now (if I don't play with the
settings or resolution or going up and down the menu
with no intentions but testing the stability),
and I wonder:
was it overheated and being in another pci slot
gives the fan cooler more room for collecting air
and it works better now?
or was it something wrong with the previous pci slot?.
The monster card used to be in that slot and I never
had a problem with it.
Well,I think it's operational/playable now,so
I'll move on to the next game-related topic/question.