#Diamond Speed Star 24x
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Help! Help! Help! Help!
Can anyone tell me why my Speed Star 24x will not play flc's in Studio???
It will play fli's but, flc's show up tiled several times on the screen. I
would greatly appreciate any assistance.
Thanks Scott Lunsford
Scott –
First the bad new: Sorry, no can do! The reason this happens is because
3DS has built into it an "auto-detect, super vga flc player" that trys to
detect what VGA you have, and max resolution. This library built into 3DS
does not understand MANY of the newer Super VGA's. The Diamond 24x is
using a WD90C31 chip, which the internal library does not know how to deal
with. It actaully detects it as something else, and tries to talk to it
incorrectly, causing the screen to divide and do other "strange" things.
Don't feel too bad, almost all of the newer technologies are suffering from
the same problem…
The good new: While there is no solution now, I'm sure that shortly, we
will be able to help you out.
Jack Bayt – Vibrant
(Gary, this is only going to get worse. We answer this question many times
every day…)
Jack, we'll be loading flic playback drivers for r3 (as you know). That'll
solve the problem. For now, folks with those kinds of boards will have to
put AAPLAYHI.EXE in their Program menu and use that to play hires flics.
– G
Umm, Gary, doesn't 3D Studio talk to the Speedstar 24x properly if the VESA
driver is loaded? Or is there a problem when the board is used in 24-bit
mode?
Kevin Krell – Computer Support Associates
It should, as long as the Speedstar goes into a VESA mode that is
compatible with 3DS' VESA driver. Apparently, the 24x's VESA driver isn't
quite compatible. We'll be dealing with this in a flexible way in r3,
however.
– G
JackB is correct… the Speedstar uses an SVGA method that doesn't conform
to the method that 3DS understands. This'll be made more flexible in
3DSr3, but for now, you can work around this by putting AAPLAYHI.EXE in
your Program dropdown menu and shelling out to it to play hires flics.
AAPLAYHI.EXE is available with AA Pro, or (if you don't have AAP), it's
downloadable here from the forum.
– G
Where can I find AAPLAYHI.EXE?
I've done some searches but I've come up empty.
Thanks,
Danny…
It's called AAPLHI.ZIP, and it's in DL10.
– G
PS: Note, to find that, I went to the DL prompt and typed:
BRO KEY:PLAYER ALL
That searched through all the data libraries for any files with
the keyword PLAYER.
Thanks Gary,
I was using "BRO KEY:PLAY ALL". Close, but no cigar. <g>
Danny…