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>has any one had any luck running 3d studio under win95. Do I still need >to load the pharlap extender any help would be very grateful Please leave >a message Yes, I'm running 3DS under Windows 95 and it works great. Originally, I was pressing F4 to start a session with my "Previous DOS" program, but For some reason, I was having problems with my multi config start up. Win 95 saves your old start up files as "AUTOEXEC.DOS, CONFIG.DOS, IOSYS.DOS, etc. And I was getting some strange things happening to those files that I'm still not sure about. I looked through my Compu$erve filing cab for something that helped me. here it is…. ( It came from Nik Grant at AUTODESK) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>>Our experience with WIN95 is through a QA experiment with 3DS4c1. They pretty much disabled WIN95 and made it DOS7, and it worked fine. Here's an informal report: I installed Windows 95 Beta 2 on my AST 486/33 and 3D Studio R4c1 can run under Windows 95. I was unsuccessful in getting 3DS to run from its own icon — via the 3DS.EXE or 3DS.PIF (I specified MS-DOS mode as the operating environment in the Program Advanced Properties settings). I think this is probably a bug in the Windows 95 version I was running since 3D Studio will run from within Windows 95 in the full-screen MS-DOS window (when it is set to MS-DOS mode), and then starting 3DS as if you were running under DOS. We probably need a later version of Windows 95 for more testing, but given what we have, I think it's encouraging that 3D Studio does run under the stated conditions. To run 3D Studio from Windows 95: 1. Start Windows 95. 2. Click on Start/Programs/MS-DOS Prompt. The MS-DOS Prompt will appear in a window. 3. Click on the Properties icon. The Program settings should be visible. 4. Click on the Advanced button. 5. Click on MS-DOS mode to toggle on the setting. 6. Click on OK to exit the Advanced settings dialog. 7. Click on OK to exit the Properties dialog. 8. Type "exit" at the DOS prompt to close the MS-DOS Prompt window. 9. Click on Start/Programs/MS-DOS Prompt. 10. Click on Yes to start the MS-DOS Prompt in MS-DOS mode. 11. Run 3D Studio as you normally would under DOS (I had to load the mouse driver at the DOS prompt before starting 3D Studio, but I think that can be placed in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file). The installation program will run inside a DOS Prompt window (does not have to be a full-screen MS-DOS mode window). I had the install successfully running from a resizable window inside Windows 95. You can configure the display drivers, "3DS VIBCFG", from the MS-DOS prompt (in MS-DOS mode). The ATVista frame buffer works in 3D Studio running under Windows 95. One problem I have seen is the system will reboot when you quit 3D Studio then type "exit" to go back to Windows 95 (this only happens if you load the mouse driver at the DOS prompt, however). If you don't load the mouse driver, the program operates (but mouse not enabled) and exits correctly. In fact, the system will reboot by just loading the mouse driver then typing "exit" at the DOS prompt (3D Studio is not involved with this bug).<<< ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ that got me going. Before Win95, I had a multi config startup with on of the configurations being "3D Studio" . I copied that config (just the 3D Studio one) and placed the Autoexec and config files in the place for them in the "Advanced" section of the DOS properties ( Also, DO NOT press the "Config" switch. You'll see it in the Advanced dialog. It was prob. the reason my config.DOS files got screwed up, I'm not sure because I just figured it out and I haven't tested it yet. 3D Studio is working fine now under Windows 95 (And so is the PAR when I start it under this DOS session) Another thing I did was to copy the DOS prompt ICON, and setup several kinds of sessions. The one for 3DS actually drops out of and re-boots, it is a great system. Microsoft says that if ANY DOS programs that didn't work under windows before, don't work under Windows 95, then IT IS A BUG and should be reported. Good luck David Camp