Help! Drivers

Starfox

Age of Empires III requires at least a 64 MB video card. This computer appears to have a 0 MB video card. If you wish to upgrade your computer, please contact your computer manufacturer for any necessary assistance.



System information: 2700 MHz, 512 MB, 0 MB (vendorID aaaa, deviceID 1131)

MY CARD
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT:

Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
Type: Display
Bus: PCIe
Slot: Slot-1
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0393
Revision ID: 0x00a1
ROM Revision: 3008

^^^which could handle the game 7 times over!

Im on a mac that has got OS X and also windows xp installed on it just to play this game (not realizing i could of got this game for mac), im not a techie by far so if anyone can help can you explain to me as you would to a child and a stupid one at that lol, ive been on other forums annoying the hell out of people and ive got to the point where i find all i have to do is unistall my graphics card drivers so i can install a specific one off a diff site. But how? do i do it through the virtual xp os or do i do it through the mac os x, any help would be great thanks!

K.O.Kiki

Unless you're using Parallels, your XP is not "virtual" -- it's a stand-alone OS in a different partition of the computer.
So, it seems reasonable for me to assume that you should do all your driver updating from within Windows.

Sad Professor

If your using Bootcamp I believe the latest update has improved graphics drivers.

StephenC_IRL

sounds like your using crossover office, parallels or mocrosoft virtual pc, none of which will work for games !!!!!!

Starfox

K.O.Kiki wrote:

Unless you're using Parallels, your XP is not "virtual" -- it's a stand-alone OS in a different partition of the computer.
So, it seems reasonable for me to assume that you should do all your driver updating from within Windows.

Hi, yea im using Parallels, do you know how i can uninstall my drivers?

Sad Professor

Swatwolf, I think you might be better off using Bootcamp for games. Parallels is great but you can run into problems. But once set up they can both use the same partition so you get the best of both worlds.

Breezer

I'm using VMWare Fusion on my Macbook and have run into similar problems playing even old games. I know the graphics card on the Macbook isn't great but it should be able to handle Age of Empires 2 right? So I'm guessing I should use Bootcamp.

The thing is, will I have to reactivate Windows again if I install it on Bootcamp? Anyone know? I heard you can only activate using the same key once every 3 months to prevent copyright infringement.

ZENER

Programs like Parallels Desktop, VMWare and Crossover don't get direct access to the Macs graphics hardware, so even basic 3D isn't going to work too well. Parallels uses a driver called "Parallels Video Driver" if you check the device manager in windows.

The best option for games is Bootcamp, this way Windows get to "see" the hardware as native meaning everything works full speed.

OP: nVidia drivers won't do any good under Parallels. The driver installer should report that there is no nVidia hardware present or a similar error.

One other thing, when did apple start selling 2.7GHz Intel CPUs in their machines ? I thought the last machines they sold with 512 MB were 1.83 GHz ?? What model of Mac do you own OP ?

ZEN