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FYI: I have the following system..
ECS Elitegroupe K7S5A motherboard AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (1.46ghz) nVidia GForce2 MX/400 64mb SoundBLaster Live! Value 256 Meg RAM 30gig HD, 52x CD-ROM, The game runs fine for me, but early on the game was crashing to desktop without warning. With Aaron's help the problem was tracked down to the sound card. I found updated drivers at www.soundbLaster.com and it has never crashed since. The nVidia drivers I'm running are v45.23. The SBLive drivers are v 5.12.2.252 (7/24/2002) I have the original v1.0 of my motherboard BIOS. None of my devices are sharing IRQ's except for my USB controllers and my sound card. (but I have no USB devices plugged in to my computer) I've heard that many motherBoards have problems with AMD, but most if not all of these have BIOS patches that fix the problem. One other note,.. the only 'active' program on my taskbar (icons on the bottom right!) is the volume control. (I'm a firm believer in running programs WHEN I need them, and not having stuff running IN CASE I will need them.) I hope some of this info helps, have a great day. Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif [ September 30, 2003, 11:17: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ] |
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My system:
AMD 1.3 GHZ 256 MB Ram HD 60 GB Windows 98 Geforce 4/64MB 2 USBs beign used (Palmtop and Webcam) And in my system the game run smootly (the demo), never having to upgrade any drivers or any kind of problems (but i use the safe mode)... And i'm using the highest graphics possible in the demo, and it runs normally, never having a hang or anything.... So the AMD processr aren't the problem... One thing i did was getting all the windows fixes from microsoft some time ago and i never had any problems with games anymore... Hope this helps... |
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I am seeing a lot of problems with AMD things... perhaps upgrading the flash BIOS could fix some issues (however, if you incorrectly flash your BIOS, you can really screw it up!, so be careful).
Your motherboard brand might be hard to figure out. Most big companies have their own motherBoards that you can update at their site. Otherwise, you are going to have to look up your mobo manufacturer and see what BIOS updates are there. Edit: Just realized not many might understand what I mean. The Flash BIOS is a chip on your motherboard that is the lowest of the low level things, and acts as the interface between all your computer components. You might have to update that. Your specific mobo manufacturer has details, look for your manual, or look right on the motherboard itself to see the brand. [ September 30, 2003, 17:36: Message edited by: Instar ] |
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I think its more an issues of the sound card. I use the SoundbLaster Live Value. Anybody else, too?
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Addendum to my earlier post: added system spec: motherboard is AOpen AK79D-400 with bios R1.04 (date is August 13th).
Don't know if that means anything. [ October 01, 2003, 02:20: Message edited by: pathfinder ] |
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Well, well...Thankee Instar. D/L'd the Version 45.23 Nvidia drivers and voila...I can at least get to the game menu...hehe
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Wel at least you can see how spiffy the game menu looks http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif
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Well, that is a slight improvement. If you cannot launch the game, try changing options in the settings menu, or other things. More detail on my first post.
And I thought DX was supposed to take care of all these issues... Some people have had success by renaming the sounds folder, something wrong with soundcards or something. |
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