#ATI Mach 64 with 4 meg
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Hi I have been trying to get 3DS to work with an ATI GRaphics Pro (Mach 64).
I have spent several hours on the phone with their tech support trying to get
their drivers to work. No luck. "Display device did not initialize". Anyone
know of how to make this work? I am using the latest drivers they have
available and have gone through everything I know or can think of.
Thanks,
Will
Hey Will,
The Vibrant drivers work perfect, I have the same card. Don't fool with the ATI
drivers, the're junk. I get 1280X1024, 16.7 mil colors from the ATI card rock
steady, no flicker on a Mitsubishi 21" monitor.
Download the new Vibrant drivers and the Antivesa routine. Select either the
Mach 64 driver or the ATI Graphics Pro Turbo driver. Make all resolutions 16.7
million colors. Super!
The Antivesa routine is necessary to eliminate the LONG wait (2 minuter or
more) when you start 3ds. The 3DS queries the Vesa subroutines over 200 times
for some strange reason. Antivesa eliminates that.
Just run Antivesa before you start 3DS. Works like a champ!
Send me a note if you're still having probs. Bye!
Mark,
>>>Send me a note if you're still having probs. Bye!<<<
Many thanks for your help. I will take your advice.
Thanks again,
Will
Oh, by the way, there some new ATI drivers in the ATI forum.
As a side note to all of this, I bought ATI's for all the high-end PC's in the
office because at the time they were the best thing. Now it appears Diamond has
retaken the with the Viper Video and Stealth 64 Video.
I'm holding out for dual Pentium 180's or P6's, Win NT, 3DS Max, and the OpenGL
cards. Major change is on the horizon with OpenGL, things like realtime
rendering on the fly, at least for previewing. Its gonna be great!
Bye.
Mark,
Antivesa? Is that why it takes so long to boot? I thought that 3DS just
took a long time to check my MAP-Paths. I'll download it and use it. I also
confirm the Vibrant drivers. I run at 16.7m and 1024×768 and 1280×1024. Great
card INMO.
-Matt (Active Media Graphics)
Y 50 /g fM/
Matthew,
If you have the ATI card, there are some new drivers in the ATI forum.
Hope Antivesa helps, its been a winner.
Bye….
MARK…
Saw your comments re:ATI cards. Where are the "newer?" Vibrant drivers
and antivesa
routines located for downloading?
I agree with many that ATI makes great cards…
thanks, kev
The Vibrant driver is under the 3D Studio library and the Antivesa is under the
hardware lib.
Have fun!
Mark…Thanks for the fast reply! Duh!…found the antivesa file after sending
message to you…but not sure how to load TSR (don't use TSR's very often) and
no info in .TXT file. Can U help me out?
Thanks, again….it's great these forums even exist!
Kev
Sure!
What you want to do is just run antivesa.com. What I did was copy all three
files, antivesa.com, .asm,.txt, to the 3ds4 sub directory. Then just do:
CD\3DS4 <enter>
ANTIVESA <enter>
3DS4
and thats it! I made a boot disk that just starts dos, assigns a path, cd\3ds4,
runs antivesa, and starts 3ds4.
Have fun!
Mark…
I added vibrant files and antivesa (the latter in my bat file for 3DS start).
I got a wierd error message in ATI DOS "window" about VESA not
present,…bla,bla,bla. OK. So I deleted antivesa from .bat file. My card's a
2M, but I find it hard to believe there's a big diff between the 2 & 4M cards.
Any ideas?
Not sure if the VIB drivers did anything or not, that's hard to tell.
Thanks…Kev
Kevin,
Are you running under any version of windows? I didn't understand the DOS
window part.
Did you reconfig the "3ds vibcfg"? Should be ATI Mach 64 for all displays.
Since you have 2M, try 640×480 @ 16.7 mill. colors.
And, no, there isn't any difference in the cards except mem.
Drop me a note!
Mark,
I placed an antivesa statement into my .bat file used for 3DS startup. All I
got was a weird message that VESA is not present,bla,bla,bla, on an ATI DOSlike
"window". So, I removed statement. That's where it stands. What gives? I
assume all these cards are PCI-based, if that even means anything.
As for the VIB drivers, hard to tell if they did or do anything (they DO work,
though). Whenever I install new drivers, I always expect to see the Aurora
Borialis or something close. Never happens! Darn.
Thanks…Kev.