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TM Crusoe Posts: 618   Location: Hull, UK | That seems to be common on old laptops and often there's nothing you can do. I very much doubt it would help, but I guess loading the VESA driver might trick the scaler into working; ftp://ftp.mpoli.fi/hardware/DISPLAY/S3/S3VBE318.ZIP but I really don't think it will. Supposedly Compaq used to have the disks for the "Setup Partition" up for download on their site, annoyingly the FTP and HTTP side of things seems to be gone and a Google search for the setup disks yields nothing. Even if it did, you'd have to fiddle with the partitions on the disk already, moving them forwards to fit the setup partition. Past that, it still isn't unlikely that the scaling option was never there to start with. If it's anything like my 3500 was (And it seems to be similar) it probably uses an ESS chip for sound. They're quite good, but not the best and can do weird things. At the time laptops weren't really built to do these kind of things and usually have quirks, I doubt if such a compatibility issue ever crossed the minds of the designer. How do these games run under Windows? I know it's not exactly the same vibe as running them in DOS, but sometimes it does make problems disappear as Windows actually has a few tricks built in that apply automatically to running "DOS-on-Windows" stuff which might help. Notably Windows also has Plug and Play support where DOS alone does not, which should at least make the resources behave themselves. You could also try selecting the settings for an original mono Sound Blaster in your game as some have issues with SBPro emulation. If all else fails, you could try running ESSCFG which should get around any issues that might be happening with PnP, basically their equivalent to CTCM - see attachment. Edited by DXZeff 2016-11-24 11:07 AM Attachments ----------------  DOSESS.zip (30KB - 663 downloads) | ||
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Fujitsu 186 Posts: 7 | Huge thanks for taking the time to look into this! I tried to find a way to retrieve the data and setup that recovery partition, regardless what would be needed (re-partitioning, fresh fdisk etc), but there are absolutely no resources available, such a shame. Anyway the machine had a broken floppy drive and wouldn't boot from cd-rom, so I had to take the hdd out and prepare it in another machine. Graphics: The vesa driver fails to install, it says "Unknown S3 graphics chip detected. The VB3/Core 2.0 does not support the detected S3 graphics chip". Audio: The ESS driver fails to run, it says "Unable to find Audiodrive ES1868-based chip!". It seems I have a 1879 chip. I have no sound effects for Doom II in win98 or if I exit to DOS. If I start DOS with F8 at boot, the sound is fine (but there is no way to have it in full screen then, I guess you win some and you lose some  ). I really appreciate your help! Of course this is not such a critical thing, there are like 100 ways to play doom II, but these issues are the essence of retro computing . (device manager.jpg) Attachments ---------------- device manager.jpg (89KB - 701 downloads) | ||
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