Voodoo 5 - game goes to black screen at start up...
 

As soon as the Interplay splash window goes away and the game window appears - the whole screen goes black and evey so often lines can be seen flashing here and there...

P2 450
128 Ram
DirectX 8.0
Vooodoo 5 driver version 1.04.0 (most current according to the 3dfx website)
Soundblaster Live

I got the Voodoo 5 3 days ago and just replaced my power supply to make it work yesterday (I have a 300 watt).

It runs Quake 3 in "Fastest Performance" mode
Unreal Tourney runs in the same.
Counter-Strike only runs in software.. =p

What the hell is wrong with Sacrifice??

HELP!!


send advice to ripperjk@mindspring.com

Well its real nice to know that I've been sitting here needing help and not one support guy has answered me.

Thanks for the "support" guys.

From our troubleshooting guide:

Use Driver version 1.01

(OR)

With Driver 1.03.00 Geometry Assist must be enabled.

Directions for enabling Geometry assist

1) Open the 3dfx Advanced Features from the 3dfx Tools tray icon or through Windows
2) Desktop Advanced Display Properties
3) Open the D3d box
4) Open the Geometry Assist box
5) Enable Geometry Assist and reboot the system
6) Run Sacrifice and choose the Direct 3D T&L HAL option

Max Resolution 1600x1200 32-bit


Hope this helps,
Oxryly

The support guys you are referring to are the Sacrifice Team!

We will do all we can to help ... but in future if I were you I would take the time to read the many similar posts that have already been made about this problem.

Doctor X.

Ok, I dont have a PIII so I cant use geometry assist.

AND

I cant go back and use 1.01.00 drivers cause as far as I know they arent compatible with Directx 8 - and from what I see Directx8 cant be uninstalled.


BUT - good news... I did finally get things working when I changed my refresh rate to 75.

Sorry if I sounded bitchy - I'v had a rough week with this damn Voodoo 5 =p

Oh and as much as I looked - I coulndt find one post that addressed the same problem I was having...maybe Im blind tho

Ok i did the same thing with my voodoo5 card, but the game still crashes numerous time's, or whenever it feels like it.

my thaum.err
Current path 'C:\PROGRAM FILES\SHINY\SACRIFICE'
Sacrifice build 0492, Oct 25 2000

3D sound provider supports max 64 samples
Loading
Reading save game file saves\games\fornow.sac
Closing save file
Reading save game file saves\games\fornow.sac
Closing save file
Reading save game file saves\games\fornow.sac
Closing save file
Reading save game file saves\games\fornow.sac
Closing save file
Reading save game file saves\games\fornow.sac
Cannot find save Samplay ID 0x1
Cannot find save Samplay ID 0x2
Cannot find save Samplay ID 0x3
Cannot find save Samplay ID 0x4
Cannot find save Samplay ID 0x5
Cannot find save Samplay ID 0x6
Closing save file
Changing to screen mode 800x600x32bpp
Screen mode is 800x600x32bpp
Triple buffering enabled

my error.err - repeats it 12 times
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scrapex.err

Setting up wad files...
Setting up graphics...
Creating main window...
Loading main window frame...
Showing main window...