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Hi all,

I applied the upgrade from v1.21 to v1.30 including the manuals and !Boot upgrades.

Now, when I start VA up it stalls for ages with a MIPS reading of 0.00 then suddenly wakes up and gets to about 37 MIPS. Once RISC OS appears it is generally OK but occasionally stalls again for random amounts of time. Sometimes it never wakes up again.

Nothing in my machine has changed since v1.21 was working perfectly. I already had the processor speed field manually set but I've tried re-doing that in the hope that it would sort things out. No luck...

Any ideas anyone?

My machine:
Intel PIII 800
Nvidia GeForce2
SoundBlaster AWE64
Asus motherboard
256MB
Windows 2000

Cheers,
Rob.

hi

I am afraid I don't have a cure for this problem.
I am getting the same error when running 1.30 on my machine
but I am using the same graphics card and exerience shows that
these are the root of most problems.

Hopefully someone can cure this soon?

cheers

As a temporary fix it all seems to work fine so long as you keep it in fullscreen mode.

This however leads to another problem: When I leave fullscreen mode VA5000 doesn't restore my desktop properly. It restores my desktop to the correct logical size, but not the correct physical size. By that I mean that it brings a desktop up that doesn't fit on the screen.

Any thoughts on this one, or is it the graphics drivers again?

Cheers,
Rob.

It could be that the graphics card drivers are not fully
DirectX compatible. As another temprary fix you
try turning off the "Allow mode change in full screen"
button from the Tools->Options->Display Tab.

I would suggest seeing if some later drivers for you
card exist.

Aaron