CAT 3.8's and Continuum

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The CAT 3.8 2D driver seems to break any hardware acceleration in Continuum.
What I mean is: CAT 3.7's = 100fps. CAT 3.8's = 10fps. Also.. Continuum
gives you the option to run 'software emulation' in the advanced options.
Enabling this will give you better performance than CAT 3.8's and
acceleration will. Can we say "Hardware Decelerator"? ... Thought that the
S3 ViRGE was the last one of those.... SOOoooo...

I figure a workaround for this is to have Continuum point to the 2D driver
from the CAT 3.7's. Problem is, I don't know which file it is or how to
uncompress it from .dl_ to .dll . Can anyone offer any insight?
 
I have noticed that my 2d goes belly up without a reboot...can't log off, can't just kill background, has to be a reboot...

..dl_ to .dll thats all, rename and copy paste where it belongs
 
are you sure about that? I think the .dl_ is compressed?

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JAD said:
I have noticed that my 2d goes belly up without a reboot...can't log off,
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can't just kill background, has to be a reboot...
 
I don't think so, i could be wrong....in the past thats how i handle that situation

what is the full name of the file and its size.....?
 
Well... as far as the "full name of the file", that is what I'm trying to
figure out.

Of the following files which come from the winxp cat 3.7 install package:

08/12/2003 10:34 PM 223,113 ati2dvag.dl_
08/12/2003 10:26 PM 52,874 ati2evxx.dl_
08/12/2003 10:25 PM 159,529 ati2evxx.ex_
09/04/2001 04:24 PM 12,158 ati2mdxx.ex_
08/12/2003 10:34 PM 377,064 ati2mtag.sy_
08/12/2003 09:49 PM 488,548 ati3d1ag.dl_
08/12/2003 10:01 PM 591,518 ati3d2ag.dl_
08/12/2003 10:15 PM 624,569 ati3duag.dl_
08/12/2003 10:24 PM 49,623 atiddc.dl_
08/13/2003 12:12 AM 229,376 atiiiexx.dll
08/12/2003 11:06 PM 2,366,053 atioglxx.dl_
08/12/2003 10:27 PM 62,221 atipdlxx.dl_
08/12/2003 09:40 PM 8,352 atitvo32.dl_
11/09/2001 11:01 AM 12,614 ativcoxx.dl_
08/28/2003 11:26 PM 26,333 cx_10735.cat
08/12/2003 10:27 PM 59,493 oemdspif.dl_

I'm trying to figure out which one exactly handles DirectDraw acceleration.
I'm sure they are compressed also. If you look at the size of atioglxx.dl_
and compare it to the file that exists in your %systemroot%\system32\ dir
you'll see it's almost half the size.
 
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