On 9 Jan 99, at 12:05, Philippe J Beaulieu wrote:

> My daughter got a game for christmas, it installed perfectly, except
> it installed directx5 over my directx6. when i try to run the game i
> get an error that the game will not run as my computer needs to be
> pentium class. of course it is! its a pent 200mhz 48mb ram  any
> ideas?, BTW the chip is a cyrix

  Cyrix introduced their M1 (6x86) chip just before Microsoft finalised
their Win95 test for CPU type, and the latter checks for at least one
"flag" that isn't set by default in that generation of Cyrix chips.  I
don't recall the name, but there's a little utility you can run in
AUTOEXEC.BAT which flips the flag so that Windows now recognizes it as
pentium class.

  See the FAQ at

http://www.ionet.net/~rbdavis/retro/

The questions about Win95 not recognizing the chip as Pentium class
link to a utility called IBMM1.EXE which can be used to fix this.


David G

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