T0rp0r on 25/4/2001 at 03:45

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I am one of four people in the country that owns and uses a Savage Blaster 4 video card (AGP, 32 MB RAM)... anyhoo, when attempting to play this game for teh first time, it gave me an option of rendering using S3 MeTal for Windows, something specifically designed for SB4... well, OK, it works but it is extremely jerky in places which makes firefights a pain. So I tried standard D3D rendering - movement is smoother but a lot of the graphics are messed up (especially the computer hacking pages). I have tried everything I could think of so far... disable all TSRs, changing BIOS settings, upgrading BIOS of card, I even tried to upgrade the video drivers but I couldn't boot into windows after that (their suggestion is to change this setting using the Blaster Control Panel, but the Blaster Control Panel doesn't work right in safe mode, so I can't really do that...).
OK, I realize nobody out there has an answer for this but if you have any resources I could check I would appreciate.
p.s. am using win98 on an amdk62-450 processor, 196 MB SDRAM, plenty o' hard drive space.

T0rp0r on 26/4/2001 at 02:57

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Okay... update....
I had already installed the Deus Ex patch when last we met...
I finally got the video drivers update to work by changing the aforementioned setting prior to installing the update.
I also update the via 4-in-1 drivers, which update the AGP drivers - this had the effect of fixing a problem I was having with DXdiag in which the AGP texturing test would fail.
So, after all this, I still couldn't get it to work right... BUT... D3D mode works a lot better so I have been playing using that... but I still get a lot of "static" on any 2D readouts (i.e. computer screens, keypads, etc)... any suggestions on this relatively minor prob would be apprec.