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Title: W2K almost!
Post by: Gazoo on April 08, 2000, 08:06:00 AM

Hi Guys, I am waiting to open an account as I am forced to use W2K here.  I know W2K support isn't official yet, but I thought I would let you know what my problem is.

The mouse problem has now gone away, I can click and navigate to my hearts content.  I just cant use my keyboard.

My system:
PIII 550 256MB Ram
CL 16MB Banshee
MS Natural Keyboard (not USB, although I tried the USB Keyboard too with the same problem)
USB MS Intelli Mouse (now works)
OS: W2K  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

Any ideas or suggestions.  The only keystrokes that seam to do anything are:
Ctrl+Alt+Del (Task Manager)
Alt+F4 (exits)

I have done the DL twice and installed twice.  Once where I tried setting my own keys in the keymap util, and once by just doing a clean install and not touching a thing.

Thanks for the efforts guys

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Gazoo
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Title: W2K almost!
Post by: snag on April 08, 2000, 08:24:00 AM

same problem here in W2K, see my post in the bugs forum.

come on HTC, we're almost there  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

Title: W2K almost!
Post by: Pyro on April 08, 2000, 08:32:00 AM

Geez, first you want W2K mouse support, now keyboard support, what's next, joystick support?  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)  Actually, we now have a copy of W2K but haven't installed it yet.  We'll be getting to that soon.



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HiTech Creations

Perfect plans, aren't.

Title: W2K almost!
Post by: snag on April 08, 2000, 08:45:00 AM

ah good news  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) btw after you install W2K, and if it's a nVidia adapter you have, make sure you install the latest drivers from nVidia.

drivers provided with the W2K disk do not provide 3D acceleration, neither in D3D nor OGL. I suspect the same for other graphic cards (Voodoo etc).

oh, and, yes the stick works fine, at least I can see the ailerons move and pull the trigger in my parked Typhoon  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

Title: W2K almost!
Post by: rossinio on April 15, 2000, 10:27:00 AM

I assume there is going to be a patch for this right guys - I reckon there are loads of people dying to play it (its sooo much better than anything like it i.e. warbirds)

Title: W2K almost!
Post by: qts on April 15, 2000, 12:25:00 PM

For reference, herewith a summary of the W2K problems to date

1 - LH mouse read as RH mouse

2 - Cannot Cancel when changing video resolution

3 - No keyboard input

4 - Sees, but does not read USB stick (Saitek Cyborg 3D). This is even after calibrating and explicitly selecting the inputs.

5 - Crashes when you try to fly.

6 - Video corruption if you exit without flying (diagonal lightning bolt on main screen). Voodoo 3 3000 - will be V5 5500 when they release it.

7 - In the Tower, you get a FPS indication, and this is lower than on W98, so I'd *guess* that there is little use of threading, and less consideration of SMP machines.

8 - Umm...

Title: W2K almost!
Post by: Tailslide on April 17, 2000, 11:23:00 PM

Also having the no keyboard problem in win2k.

  TS

Title: W2K almost!
Post by: skippy on April 18, 2000, 09:16:00 AM

Well thats a bummer...was wanting to load up w2k on my home puter since It never crashes at the office but I guess I better wait a bit.  If anyone gets it goin can they e-mail me please.