Well, it took a day, but I finally got my Raven Banshee to work perfectly under NT 4.0.
It took a reinstall. Downgrade from SP4 to SP3, and some patches, but all the cool stuff now runs on NT.
Quake2 is awesome, and runs great at 1024x768 and even 1600x1200 (if a bit slowly ... 10 fps).
I even got NFL Blitz to run under NT... copy dinput.dll from the cd's directx directory over the old (directx3) version. The game will run great under NT , despite the install claiming it will not.
Overall, I love this card now. It was frustrating as hell for a day, but it's all worth it now. Reference drivers will be up next week. I really think the card makers rushed this thing out early, but I guess I can't blame them. The hardware is great, image quality is sharp, and everything works perfectly. The drivers seem to be a little beta'ish, but nothing indicating real problems. In a week or two, we'll have ALOT of happy , satisfied Banshee owners. BTW at least 4 of my friends have one now (and I'm getting 3 more cards, probably a Phoenix, and maybe a metabyte, both PCI and AGP) to upgrade my other systems.
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