Please help! My computer hates M!

[Blackwood]

I can't get M to work on my computer. I'm running Windows 98 and believe the system matches all the program requirements. I tried looking through all of the other post, but didn't seem to find one that matches my exact problem.

I've read the readme file so many times I know it by heart. I've unistalled and reinstalled Microsoft .NET Framework 3 times. I've unistalled and reinstalled the whole M package twice. Everytime I open the program, and then click on anything other than the menu in the program, it brings up a window that says "This program has performed an illegal function and must be shut down." If I click on details, I get this:

M caused a general protection fault
in module 3DFX16V3.DRV at 0009:000001c9.
Registers:
EAX=0000b470 CS=03cf EIP=000001c9 EFLGS=00000206
EBX=0063b470 SS=4c07 ESP=0000b12c EBP=0000b342
ECX=00000004 DS=4c07 ESI=0000b470 FS=113f
EDX=00024c07 ES=0000 EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
f3 66 a5 1f 8b d8 8e c2 66 26 8b 47 14 c4 5e 0a
Stack dump:
b4800457 0041b364 00000000 bff7b9c5 818065f4 00000000 791b2f04 791b2f0a 0063e1d0 114e069e 114e069e 0063e384 793cdcf0 ffffffff 0063e390 791f5d76

I'm good with computers, but I don't have much experience with civillian computer. Is there something simple I'm missing? Please advise.

[scottlu]

3DFX16V3.DRV is the driver for a very old 3D video card made by 3dfx (bought by NVidia a few years ago). Windows is crashing inside of that driver. This driver is very old and not being maintained any longer. You need a new driver, or better yet get a new video card with up to date video drivers. Although not required by M, I also recommend installing Windows XP

Good luck.