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Galactic Navy
Joined: March 23, 2003
Posts: 11183
From: Bristol, England
|  Posted: 2004-01-09 10:34
I got my new pc today and installed darkspace..
i ran it fine at first when i was using my account .. then i got my brothers account up 1 hour later and went on halos..i jumped into 4 ac's and it crashed....i rebooted thinking its just one of those thing...now it keeps doing it....
Windows xp pro SP1 ( updated )
amd barton 2700+ ( not overheating )
Radeon 9600 XT 128meg
gigabyte nforce 2. pro 2 mother board
1 gig of ram
heeelp :/
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Darksworde
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Joined: September 06, 2002
Posts: 806
From: The Zoo
| Posted: 2004-01-09 12:02
u got the latest catalyst drivers?
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Ceridan
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Joined: May 24, 2003
Posts: 608
From: Canada
| Posted: 2004-01-09 12:11
Does any other games work?
Try checking other recent games(to check if the other games have the same problem)... also downloading Updates and new drivers should help.
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BackSlash
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Galactic Navy
Joined: March 23, 2003
Posts: 11183
From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2004-01-09 16:33
i had 3:10 installed ( latest ) but iv looked at the sapphire website and they say the problem is caused by them...yet i have rolled back and the same is still happening....
also my mobo is only AGP x8 1.5v compatible .. iv tried setting it to x4 still no diff...
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Fattierob
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Joined: April 25, 2003
Posts: 4059
| Posted: 2004-01-09 21:29
If it's *only* 8x AGP compaitbhle, make sure you MOTHERBOARD supports that
also, some motherboard needs mini-agp 8x drivers, look around for them on the companys website..if you can't find them..welll..you don't need them
Also, like somebody else said, check other games. if other games work, that means it's a DS problem, and you should reinstall it (or at least check the setup menu)...
If your other games DON'T work...I suggest making sure everything in your computer is in place (if you made it by hand, your seems not like a normal DELL)..also, i would sugest making sure the RAM is good, as BAD ram can cause the computer to do BAD stuff (it has happened to me)..
finaly, make sure your motherboard is updated....
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peanutbutter
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Joined: November 04, 2001
Posts: 341
| Posted: 2004-01-11 07:45
hmm the drivers supplied by the various manufactors of those cards seldom work - i am using the version from the atiwebpage
6.14.10.6387 (the filename is: wxp-w2k-catalyst-7-94-030917m-0114343c) and i have no problems whatsoever as long as it's set to max. performance.
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befuddled
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Joined: December 01, 2002
Posts: 42
From: befuddled
| Posted: 2004-01-14 15:32
I too have had a new build since october and have experienced the same problems you have. I can't figure it as all other games work just fine. I've just learnt to live with the frustration of occassionally crashing out of the game, but it does make me reluctant to mod in FA.
ic7-max3
intel 3ghz
1 gig
radeon 9700
xp pro service pack 1
nothing overclocked
latest drivers from manufacturers' websites
9700 was in my last build so i'm reluctant to look there for the flaw.
More a sympathy moan than an expectation of a remedy. Hope you find a solution.
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tomcat
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Joined: December 31, 2003
Posts: 24
| Posted: 2004-01-22 07:17
well i am using the 9700pro for over a year and after setting it to highest performance i have no problems (i am using an Asusmobo with 8x and SIS chipset)). driver is 6.14.10.6387 9/12/03 on w2k. if u have linksysNIC see if a swop to another brand solve the problem, they have a funky frimware.
btw the driver which came with the card and the one for download on the manufactoreweb didn't work, only the one from the ATI site.
[ This Message was edited by: tomcat on 2004-01-22 07:19 ]
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Iglooman (SF)
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Joined: September 15, 2003
Posts: 24
From: Northern Ontario
| Posted: 2004-01-22 09:26
Interesting. I wonder if this game doesn't like the 1 GB of RAM? I had an ATI card (Radeon AIW) and 512MB RAM, P4 1.7GHZ in my old Dell 8100 with no problems. With my new computer I got a Radeon 9800 and 1 GB RAM in a Dell XPS, and now I crash to desktop on occasion. Will update to the new ATI drivers just released, but I don't think it'll help. I've updated once already, and both sets of drivers did it. Anyone else with 1 GB RAM running this fine?
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tomcat
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Joined: December 31, 2003
Posts: 24
| Posted: 2004-01-22 10:20
i have 2 sticks of 512MB DDR in it and even duomonitormode is fine - just running 2 clients simultaniously in windowed mode is not possibel if 1 is moved to the secondary monitor.
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