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06-24-2005, 11:53 PM
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having problems with games...
ok, i am just having problems with anything graphics intensive. BF1942, need for speed underground2, BF vietnam, halo. The wierd thing is i can run UT2K 3&4 fine theyre just way the heck laggy. i dont know what to do at this point, but im thinkin that my vid card has finally bit the dust. my system specs are in my sig.
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06-27-2005, 10:14 PM
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Radeon 9100? That seems low. Latest vid and chipset drivers with latest game patches might help. So would a newer vid card lol
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06-27-2005, 11:09 PM
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lol ya im thinkin about it. maybe a gforce 6800GT, but im kinda short on $$ at the moment...
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06-28-2005, 05:05 PM
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ok i dl and installed the new drivers (5.6 btw) and it still aint workin. any other ideas?
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06-28-2005, 06:19 PM
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The problem lies in the card. Battlefield and NFSU2 both require a DirectX 9.0 compatible video card. The 9100 only supports DirectX 8.1. You'll need to look into a video card upgrade. If you are on a budget, the Geforce 6600GT or the Radeon 9800Pro would be good choices.
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06-28-2005, 09:23 PM
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u could install 9.0c, my fx5200 works fine... and my 9200 did before... well... if ur just testing it out then yea go for it... ur gonna want a better graphic card once u play.
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06-29-2005, 03:44 PM
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ive had this card for years though, and it never gave me problems until now. i used to be able to play BF1942/vietnam without problems. so just upgrade the card and im good then?
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06-29-2005, 05:53 PM
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Well you said it just started happening, what have you installed recently that may be causing problems. I'm assuming 1942 worked fine before and now all of a sudden it stopped working, right?
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06-29-2005, 10:19 PM
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ya it was real quick, one minute i was playin, the next it gave me a BSOD, then i reinstalled the drivers, and now it keeps restarting. this was after i tried to install NFS2 though... it doesnt work when i uninstall NFS though so what else could i try?
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06-29-2005, 11:59 PM
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BSOD sounds like bad drivers somewhere in the mix.
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06-30-2005, 12:35 AM
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try installing this http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3214.html and cleaning out all of your driver files after uninstalling them, then reinstalling the latest drivers
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06-30-2005, 04:40 PM
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ok i tried that, then tried to run battlefield and it did it again. this time i got this error message thingy...
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/response...3204bae&SID=10 the thing going through my mind right now is ***...its a new driver how could it cause problems...idk anymore, should i just buy a new card? if so i need ideas max price is $300 |
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06-30-2005, 04:48 PM
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for $300 you can get a heck of a nice card. I remember having issues playing any 3D app with my card too, tried installing DX like 10 times, reinstalled the drivers like 2-5 times, different versions old and new... coudnt stop the system from crashing. Only a clean install of Windows fixed it. Running till this day (about 4-5 months now) knock on wood...
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