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Posted October 27, 2020
I have GB3 installed on two machines both running Windows 10 64bit Home Edition. One is ten years old and was originally a Windows 7 set up. On that machine I can run GB3 just fine after fixing the flickering issue. It has an EVGA 660GT video card and a 4 core intel processor . I did not use dgVoodoo2 on it. On my new machine that will replace this old one, I have an EVGA 1650 video card and an intel 8 core processor. I have installed dgVoodoo2 on it in the game directory and tried several Directx settings. The best result I can get is a full black screen with the mouse courser changed to a large icon, probably indicating the change to the 640X480 resolution. I can move the mouse courser all around the screen. When I click either mouse button nothing happens. The program seems to hang before it can display anything. I can go into Task Manager and get it to open the blue screen. If I go into task manager to end the task, a small white screen shows up momentarily, and I go back to a full black screen. I have to go back to Task Manager and Reboot the system.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what's going on? I would like to be able to play this game on my new system.
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Posted October 29, 2020
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rmturpin: I have GB3 installed on two machines both running Windows 10 64bit Home Edition. One is ten years old and was originally a Windows 7 set up. On that machine I can run GB3 just fine after fixing the flickering issue. It has an EVGA 660GT video card and a 4 core intel processor . I did not use dgVoodoo2 on it. On my new machine that will replace this old one, I have an EVGA 1650 video card and an intel 8 core processor. I have installed dgVoodoo2 on it in the game directory and tried several Directx settings. The best result I can get is a full black screen with the mouse courser changed to a large icon, probably indicating the change to the 640X480 resolution. I can move the mouse courser all around the screen. When I click either mouse button nothing happens. The program seems to hang before it can display anything. I can go into Task Manager and get it to open the blue screen. If I go into task manager to end the task, a small white screen shows up momentarily, and I go back to a full black screen. I have to go back to Task Manager and Reboot the system.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what's going on? I would like to be able to play this game on my new system.
Let's see, did you turn on the option to show the dgVoodoo watermark, to see if it's working correctly? Also, did you try running the game without dgVoodoo first? I am not an expert, unfortunately, but the game does run well with dgVoodoo on my system, and actually I think you can run the game even without it, but you'll have to turn off a rendering option in the in-game menu right-click to get to the menu, then track down the graphic option and turn off "incremental rendering" or something like that).
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