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Not exactly sure what is wrong with computer.....

  • 01-01-2006 12:27pm
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    Okay, I have an old secondary pc for media and lan games - it's an 800mhz pIII with 256 of pc-100 ram and a 64mb Geforce 4 gfx card.

    I've encountered several problems with games, but am not actually sure what's the root of it. Firstly, the main game on the pc is Soldier of Fortune II. This has minimum requirements of 450mhz, 16mb gfx, 128ram, etc. It runs fine on the highest settings with 5 bots running on lan. I also installed Battlefield 1942 - again, it works fine. Then I install Vietcong, with a minimum requirement almost identical to sof2, and the game runs like absolute crap. Choppy feel throughout the game, regardless of the gfx settings I apply.

    So I just let that be, Vietcong not so important. Now yesterday, when I was playing BF1942 lan, after about 20 minutes on the 800mhz machine I got a message about windows running out of virtual memory. A few minutes later the machine crashed and I had to yank the power cable. Ok, so I left BF1942. Why did this message appear? I used to play this game on a lower spec before and visual crapness aside never got any sort of memory errors.

    Playing SoF2 yesterday, after about an hours good play, the game starting corrupting visually. Which obviously you would think was the gfx card, but it wasn't consistant - eg one minute the graphics would go all messed up with random colours on the screen - and the second you die and respawn, the game goes perfectly normal again and can stay that way for up to 10 minutes before more corruption. Now, at this stage, you'd still think it was the gfx card, but the odd thing is when I played sof2 lan on another machine, this also happened, with a different gfx card - but with one of the same sticks of ram in this machine!

    So I'm slightly confused as to what is causing this - the gfx card, the RAM, what? I've opened it up, its very clean, airflow to cpu is grand.

    Anyone possibly offer some advice.....? I'm getting 2 256mb ram sticks, to see if this will help in any way, in case its the ram....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,235 ✭✭✭lucernarian


    Playing SoF2 yesterday, after about an hours good play, the game starting corrupting visually. Which obviously you would think was the gfx card, but it wasn't consistant - eg one minute the graphics would go all messed up with random colours on the screen - and the second you die and respawn, the game goes perfectly normal again and can stay that way for up to 10 minutes before more corruption. Now, at this stage, you'd still think it was the gfx card, but the odd thing is when I played sof2 lan on another machine, this also happened, with a different gfx card - but with one of the same sticks of ram in this machine!
    I've had a similar problem with Cossacks, the graphics would corrupt with weird colour appearing, though the shapes of objects would remain intact. It always went away after I used Alt+Tab to go to the desktop and then opened the window for the game again. I heard something about chipset drivers causing something like this though that fix seems intended for older computers than yours. Does your motherboard chipset need drivers?
    If using one of the sticks of RAM in another comp causes the same problem in that machine then I'd say the RAM was the problem.

    I would check to see how much virtual memory (RAM + swap file) is being used before entering any of the games. There might be an issue with background apps eating up memory.

    Did all of these problems start at roughly the same time?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,814 ✭✭✭Drapper


    Okay, I have an old secondary pc for media and lan games - it's an 800mhz pIII with 256 of pc-100 ram and a 64mb Geforce 4 gfx card.

    I've encountered several problems with games, but am not actually sure what's the root of it. Firstly, the main game on the pc is Soldier of Fortune II. This has minimum requirements of 450mhz, 16mb gfx, 128ram, etc. It runs fine on the highest settings with 5 bots running on lan. I also installed Battlefield 1942 - again, it works fine. Then I install Vietcong, with a minimum requirement almost identical to sof2, and the game runs like absolute crap. Choppy feel throughout the game, regardless of the gfx settings I apply.

    So I just let that be, Vietcong not so important. Now yesterday, when I was playing BF1942 lan, after about 20 minutes on the 800mhz machine I got a message about windows running out of virtual memory. A few minutes later the machine crashed and I had to yank the power cable. Ok, so I left BF1942. Why did this message appear? I used to play this game on a lower spec before and visual crapness aside never got any sort of memory errors.

    Playing SoF2 yesterday, after about an hours good play, the game starting corrupting visually. Which obviously you would think was the gfx card, but it wasn't consistant - eg one minute the graphics would go all messed up with random colours on the screen - and the second you die and respawn, the game goes perfectly normal again and can stay that way for up to 10 minutes before more corruption. Now, at this stage, you'd still think it was the gfx card, but the odd thing is when I played sof2 lan on another machine, this also happened, with a different gfx card - but with one of the same sticks of ram in this machine!

    So I'm slightly confused as to what is causing this - the gfx card, the RAM, what? I've opened it up, its very clean, airflow to cpu is grand.

    Anyone possibly offer some advice.....? I'm getting 2 256mb ram sticks, to see if this will help in any way, in case its the ram....

    ok try this :-

    1. Got the latest drivers for your card handy?
    2. Uninstall them from the control panel ect ect
    3. Get this http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=167
    4. After the uninstal and before the reboot run it ! it will remove all the nvidia registries in Windows. It will prompt you to CLean, do so!
    5. REbott
    6. Install graphics drivers again !
    7. Should be sorted

    Sounds like a few clashing driver settings to me................ by drivers left in the registry


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,814 ✭✭✭Drapper


    any luck?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,564 ✭✭✭CyberGhost


    Maybe the card is overheating?


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