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S3 Trio3D/2X PCI driver?

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First post, by Geri

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Anyone has a driver for S3 Trio3D/2X PCI card?

The generic s3 trio3d/2x drivers handle it as an AGPcard. Every 3d api initialization causes system hang.
If i disable AGP texturing in dxdiag, and disable agp in powerstrip. Then SOME game start to work, but most of them crashes or very buggy (i am aware of the quality of these cards, i have an AGP S3 Trio3D/2x as well, so i can see what games should start up).

I was not able to find any driver for the PCI version.
Probably the root cause of these issues are the drivers.
Anyone has an experience with these cards?

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Reply 1 of 5, by debs3759

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Which OS?

W9x10028.zip for 9x
33010nt4.zip for NT4
53005.ZIP for 2K

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Reply 2 of 5, by Geri

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Thankyou. I have noticed the bugs with win98se. I have tested the w9x10028.zip driver myself back then, which you have just linked (the stability bugs were present with this).

Are you sure these drivers worked for you? Then this is maybe a hardware error, or an incompatibility with the ALI chipset i was trying in.

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Reply 3 of 5, by debs3759

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I haven't tried them yet, but they came from the S3 site on the Wayback Machine

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Reply 4 of 5, by Horun

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Yes those are the same files listed on S3 archive. I did find one as in only 1 pci vid card with that same main chip with a picture. Another is the Jaton Video-81
Manli DH813 but nothing on their .com.hk or just .com archives about it, only a ref to an AGP version
https://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/cpu/item … rio3d-2x-86c368 and https://www.vgamuseum.info/images/palcal/s3/2 … 3d2x_top_hq.jpg
I found a slightly newer version Win98 driver 10037, about 6 months newer and has slightly larger S3LC2X .dll, .drv and .vxd...it is missing the .CAT file from 10028 but all other files are there.
edit - fixed some grammer

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Reply 5 of 5, by Geri

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Thankyou, i have tried that package as well, and it was crashing just like that. I also have tried uninstalling the motherboards agp drivers without luck. Maybe i should try it in a motherboard without an AGP port. If it still produces the same problem, i think i will trash the card.

My problem is a PCI card with 8 MByte. Its probably identical to the Manli DH813 on the picture.

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