Yes D1X is superb. I guess I'm kind of late, but I wanted to reply to this; I installed D1X a while ago and started playing Descent with. At first, it was great, but as I got further into the game, it started to get rather buggy. The screens telling you about new robot types stopped displaying the …

You could try solvbe: http://sol.planet-d.net/solvbe.html Descent loaded when I last tried it, don't know how playable it would be. That's for Windows NT/XP. In any case, I have a "universal" VESA driver program that came with Tomv Raider. Didn't do anything. In the FAQ for getting old games …

I would seriously suggest trying 61.7x drivers. At one point I had 61.76 installed, but I had problems with the game Thief Gold. If you went underwater and tilted the view down, the display would go blank. The life indicators and such were still there, but the actual display was just a solid color. …

I've been running some old DOS games and sometimes some of the screens come up corrupt (flickers and looks like someone sliced it into sections and stretched them down the screen). From the searches I've done, I think this is a VESA problem and it seems relatively common, but so far I haven't found …