Looking for a graphics driver solution for my Radeon 3850

Bill Blanton wrote:
"MEB" wrote in message ...
Bill Blanton wrote:
"sabun" wrote in message ...
Thanks for your replies...

@MEB: @Bill;

Latest Radeon drivers for Win98/ME give support up to Radeon 9800; since my HD 3850 belongs to next generation I cannot use
them.
Furthermore, there is a driver named "Radeon Series" fails on installation.
If you mean within the 98 VM, then that's expected as the virtual machine does
not control the physical video adapter. Think about it.. how would the host OS
and the virtual guest OS be able to use two different adapters. VMWare
is painting the screen the same way any other windows program does. If you
get only "16 colors" it's because the guest OS doesn't have the correct settings or
isn't properly configured for its virtual adapter. And that could be drivers, but
not the drivers you need for the physical hardware. The virtual machine uses
emulated hardware.


Lately (It was 0300 in the night, btw) I have discovered "VMWare add-ons; a generic graphics dirver gives support to higher
resolutions and deeper colors.
There it is :-). A better driver for the virtual hardware.


Cool, so can he then perhaps setup a lower speed for the emulated
processor? Or do you know of some way that might work with the speed issue?

I don't know as much about VMWare as Virtual PC, but in VPC the processor is a special
case of sorts, and is not fully emulated. The virtual OS basically runs full out on
the physical CPU. (That is, as much as the host OS allows any program, taking into
account CPU time slice distributions.)

I don't know what effect it would have to install a program inside the VM that would
"slow" the processor. I suspect it would work and it's definetly worth a try. It can't
harm anything. Certainly not the physical hardware. Just back up the VM or don't
"save it", if it gets trashed.


Sounds reasonable, about what I have found while researching some of
the Linux variants...

Did you note any of the DirectX 9.0 issues in VPC or perhaps anything
you might have noted regarding earlier versions of DirectX in it, or is
that more specific to the older game usage perhaps? {of course that
reflects you have run games, not saying you did or do, but it seems to
be a reason many do use the VMs or emulators]

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MEB