i have searched through several posts and tried various things; however, i am unable to complete the amigasport driver install.
what happens near the end when it tries to register modules is that it gives an error saying that it couldn't be registered abort retry or ignore. i have tried repair, uninstall reinstall redownloading from a different site, nothing seems to work. I am at a loss as to what to do next.

thank you in advance for any help on this topic.

paroxysmal

Hum, the best would be perhaps to clean the registry.
Go here :
https://www.3dfxzone.it/dir/3dfx/common_files/index.htm
and d/l Driver Cleaner v. 2.7
If you have some doubt, back up your registry before.

I've heard of this if the BIOS is not set correctly. The INIT Display First or Primary VGA needs to be set to AGP, not PCI. Then the install should work fine.