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All you experts please help.
21.01.06 at 07:05:25

hey guys.
this is a lvely 3dfx website by the way.

i have just formatted my computer and my graphics are horrible. My graphics were fine before i formatted the computer but i can't remember what i downloaded. In addition, even plain text looks awfully weird. my system consists of a voodoo 5 5500 with 750mhz plus 128mb of ram. what drivers should i download from here?

and I also would love to play cs but my choke, loss and lag is horrible. i have adsl btw (so it is not the internet). is there anything you guys can do about that? like any updates?

thanks goes out to anyone who took the time to read this msg.

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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: All you experts please help. Reply #1 - 21.01.06 at 11:54:59 What operating system are you using?
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edmundoab God Member Offline Settling down back in Malaysia Posts: 651 Shah Alam, MALAYSIA Gender:	Re: All you experts please help. Reply #2 - 21.01.06 at 14:38:56 well do u have the latest chipset drivers ?
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ps47 God Member Offline Keeper of the 3Dfx Helppage Posts: 988 Slovakia,central Europe Gender:	Re: All you experts please help. Reply #3 - 21.01.06 at 16:25:16 this should cover 99,99% of CS problems
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will Guest	Re: All you experts please help. Reply #4 - 21.01.06 at 23:21:00 well thanks for the replies guys. i am using windows98 se. what does latest chipset drivers mean? i have only installed the original drivers that came with my voodoo 5. ty.
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gamma742 God Member Offline 3Dfx Gamer Posts: 1668 San Diego, CA USA Gender:	Re: All you experts please help. Reply #5 - 22.01.06 at 00:42:32 Quote: what does latest chipset drivers mean? Your motherboard drivers.
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Habbs Junior Member Offline 3DFX - OWNZ! Posts: 84 Spruce Grove, Alberta Canada Gender:	Re: All you experts please help. Reply #6 - 22.01.06 at 00:47:54 What kinda chipset does your motherboard have intel, sis or via
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edmundoab God Member Offline Settling down back in Malaysia Posts: 651 Shah Alam, MALAYSIA Gender:	Re: All you experts please help. Reply #7 - 22.01.06 at 03:43:39 now that you mention its a Win98 the more reasons, all drivers have to be installed
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will Guest	Re: All you experts please help. Reply #8 - 22.01.06 at 07:07:49 amd athlon. i have a asus mother board. does this answer the question? i am pretty desperate right now, even in microsoft words, my letters are all blurry and some are slightly bolded. thanks!!!!!
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Reply #9 - 22.01.06 at 08:02:10

Well your motherboard should have came with a utility disk that has the Chipset drivers on there along with DirectX 8 or better. If you don't have that, pop the case on the machine and Asus generally has the model numbers in between the PCI slots (the white slots on most of the older boards) and look up drivers on Asus's website for all drivers pertaining to it. Should be Sound (if on board), network, chipset and posiably modem if your using it.
With 98SE this is how I normally ran my installs. Install OS, install network card, and VIA 4-1's, run Windows updates, install DX8 (only playing old games on it) and then Vid drivers. Running a V5 5500 agp using Amega Merlins 2.9 drivers and haven't had a problem yet.

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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: All you experts please help. Reply #10 - 22.01.06 at 12:15:51 Quote: amd athlon. i have a asus mother board. does this answer the question? i am pretty desperate right now, even in microsoft words, my letters are all blurry and some are slightly bolded. thanks!!!!! Sounds like you are in 16 color mode.
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Reply #11 - 25.01.06 at 06:15:31

okay! i think we are making progress but my text is still all weird. i don't know if you guys know what i mean. imagine text in normal and regular conditions but change the font of the letters to something different. it was not the same as before is bottom line.

but i have found the cd and installed my 4in1 chipset stuff and installed amega merlin 2.9 drivers. is there anything more i can do?
ty guys! look forward to your messages!

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Reply #12 - 25.01.06 at 14:08:54

Sorry man, but you'll have to be alot more detailled and technical when describing your Problem.

What Resolution and Color depth is your Desktop right now ?
(I can only guess that you currently have it in 640x480 256 Colors and your TFT Monitor is stretching it to its native Resolution without Hardware interpolation, thus causing Letters to appear distorted)

After any blank Win9x Installation, you usually need :
a) Chipset Drivers
b) DirectX Redistributable
c) Video Drivers
d) Sound Drivers
e) misc Drivers for other Hardware

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comptech_69 Full Member Offline Addicted To Half-Life 2 Posts: 183 Somewhere In Vermont Gender:	Re: All you experts please help. Reply #13 - 26.01.06 at 23:07:52 Why hasn't anyone told him to bump his resolution up and to put it in at least 16-bit color mode? What he's talking about sounds like what would happen if you put any TFT screen into like 640x480 mode. If those options aren't available, your drivers arent correctly installed
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edmundoab God Member Offline Settling down back in Malaysia Posts: 651 Shah Alam, MALAYSIA Gender:	Re: All you experts please help. Reply #14 - 30.01.06 at 04:48:20 bump!, I wonder if he got the problem sorted out already, very much suspecting its just a resolution that makes his fonts look distorted.
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