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From: Jim <jim@micronetics.com>
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Subject: Re: RSDTOOL and Win NT 4.0
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 01:55:39 +0100
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Hi Mike, 


Mike Strauss wrote:
> 
> Has anyone gotten RSDTOOL to work under NT 4 or with DirectX 3.0 in Win 95?

	I have it working under win 95.  NT 4 does not fully 
support D3d 3.0 this should be available in service pack 3 although not
completely.  You may be able to use d3d version 5 beta for NT. 
Microsoft have had numerous problems developing with directx under Nt.


>  I can get it to work fine with DirectX 2.0, but I can't play games that
> use DirectX 3.0. 

	This is under 95 or NT?  


>I suppose I could set up an alternate Windows 95
> configuration, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna do it.  Is it just me or are
> Sony's tools crap?  

The tools are functional and do the job I require.  After all it was
made clear that rsdtool is a development release and we are only getting
a sneak preview.  I think the timtool is excellent.

>Not to mention their documentation and technical
> support, or lack there of.


I agree the documentation is awful.  But it was made clear at the start
that technical support is though the web site.  All of the question I
expected answered have been, and rather promptly.

The technical questions that I have asked and have not got a reply to
have been ones I would expect to be ignored.  Like, 'how can I directly
hit the gpu/gte?'  No surprise, but then again it never hurts to try you
luck does it? :-)

Regards

Jim

> 
> -Mike Strauss