Windows NT 4 Graphics Driver Glitch

[yourepicfailure]

I'm messing around with windows nt 4, and Since I'm not at my personal computer, I'm using qemu. I set it for cirrus and installed the right driver into nt 4, but when I restart, the cursor becomes a white block and sometimes the icons disappear. Here's some snapshots:


How do I fix this? The driver installed flawlessly (or did it?)

EDIT: I upgrade to Nt5 1729 and this glitch is also present.

[sdfox7]

Are you running Service Pack 6? Many video cards, specifically NVIDIA and ATI 64MB-256MB from 2000-2004 will demand Service Pack 6.

You can get it here. http://sdfox7.com/winntsp.htm

I will also note that NT 4.0 Service Pack 3 is the bare minimum for AGP support.

[skywalker06]

I think I used nt 4 in virtualbox and didn't have this problem if its still present in qemu

[TheCollector1988]

faulty Cirrus emulation.

[Courage]

It's the faulty cirrus emulation. You can get this problem or a much more annoying one (the cursor disappears completely) as far back as 1166 and as recent as 1701 as far as I can remember. The same issue occurs in all of the Linux distros I've tried (from 1993 to 2002) but this is easily overcome by setting an option in the X config file. Too bad NT doesn't have anything like that.

[mallard]

It's probably better to use the VBEMP drivers if you have this issue. The performance hit of using VESA for graphics doesn't apply to the same degree under emulation/virtualisation.

[Clouds34]

Try VMware or VPC, or maybe Virtualbox.