CompuServe Thread

Greg- I know your not in the hardware support arena anymore, but maybe you can shed some light on my problem since you're familiar with the drivers. I am running a Par, TBCIV, and a Micropolis 2217A. I am back to 1.09 of the par software because of troubles running the new update. My problem now is with rotoscoping from the par. I can capture my video on the par just fine. I save it in a file called ROTO.ANI. My question comes with running the PXP in 3ds. The manual tells me to pull down the program menu and run PARDRV. I havn't set PARDRV up in my programs on 3ds, and I have also run pardrv on bootup. So dazed and confused I proceed to open the PXP loader and run DPSPAR. I get a screen that looks close to what is in the manual, except my Increment and Fixed buttons are reversed. OK, I'm still in the ballgame. I change my bottom section of the PXP screen to TARGA, Next Frame 0, Frame, and Increment. In the Materials editor I put the par drive in my map paths, and assign ROTO.tga as a texture map. My problem is that it never increments. The only way I can get it to increment is to rename the ANI file to ROTO0000.ani and then it seems to skip 2 or 3 frames each time it grabs a map. I can't get filename to work at all, but FIXED works great. I tell you all of this to ask, should I be using a newer PXP? Mine is version 1.0. Also should I be looking at hardware problems… remember that I can't get the new update to work either. However, ALL of the tests seem to be OK, and the par and TBC software seem to work fine. Maybe I've miss-read (yes I did read) the PAR manual. Any hints? Thanks, -Mark