Beosboxboy, if you have time could you help? :) UPDATE: RESOLVED see last post!
BeosBoxBoy:
it's not uncommon for games to have trouble identifying the abilities of certain video cards when they are new on the market and the game doesn't have a "recognition file". What happens is games usually default to VESA mode (the 60 MHz refresh rate is a dead give-away here), this means base-line performance with almost no hardware acceleration (which is required for any sort of 3D fast rendering in a modern 3D game). It can lead to the sorts of problems you encountered, rare but it does happen.
When I force my system into VESA mode, the game will still play, but with no high res capabilities, because the games "recognition file" has values for my card. As I mentioned, video cards that are newer than the game tend to cause various problems, and we cannot hold game designers too accountable for the rapid release of dozens or 100s of new video cards per year.
I have heard the phrase "rust never sleeps" - well, in the same spirit, technology never sleeps either, but more like technology drinks 20 pots of coffee laced with crystal meth and crack every day so not only never sleeps but actively bounces off the walls and runs at 200 km/hr at all times.
trl:
ROFL I love your wit! Well thanks again and I hope this will be my last post on the subject. So it probably wouldn't hurt to download the E-machine drivers that I listed in post 23, right? *hides in corner for asking a question I already know the answer to* :)
BeosBoxBoy:
Hello again, Tina :)
It sounds like this may have fixed your problem, and that is good news.
There is much wisdom in "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"; but this wisdom is at odds with the gamer mentality, we are, after all, the peerage of over-clocking and system tweaking :lol: But for now, just play your game and enjoy it, if you later feel the urge to trouble your sleep, come back here and do the following:
At your option, I would recommend doing the following updates from the web site you link in Post No.23:
Grant County BIOS Update - seems to worth the trouble
But download updates for this at the Intel download centre:
Intel VIIV Driver - Intel® Viiv™ Software 1.7 Upgrade - seems to correct a number of perfomance issues that make it worth the trouble of installing.
The rest have not been updated as far as I can discern, but maybe downloading from eMachines and archiving against future need would not be such a bad idea:
Intel Quick Resume Driver
Sigmatel Audio Driver
Intel SATA RAID Controller Driver
Intel Chipset Driver
If you upgrade to Windows Vista, then most of the needed updates will be available on the Microsoft Vista update site. Because of the significant differences between XP and Vista, I would recommend that you make it a point to make sure there are Vista updates available for your hardware before upgrading.
Hope this helps and good luck!
Yakov
BeosBoxBoy:
Here is where you can download a monitor driver for your MAG monitor: http://www.maginnovision.com/download.htm
trl:
Oh thank you. I purchased a 550 watt power supply an AGI-U550UBBK today (the store had a cheap 450 watt but no 500) and my hubby will install that and update all those drivers when he gets home. It has dual 6Pin power connectors forr PCI-E cards and supports NVidia technology. Hope I made a wise choice.
It crashed 4 times yesterday to the blue screen when saving several different lots both small and large but only when I was going to the neighborhood. If I stayed on the lot and just saved it was fine. Again these are lots that I played regularly even on my old computer, a 4 or 5 year old Dell with 512mb total ram and a no nothing, unable to upgrade onboard graphic card. It was slow but never crashed. Haha go figure.
I didn't want to post about the cashing until I got the power supply. I wanted to post only good news. LOL This truly must be the issue so I will see over the next day. I will be sure to post whether this solves the problem. :smt120
EDIT:My husband just put the power supply on and I am going to load the game in a bit but we found something surprizing when we removed the old power supply...it was only 300 Watts!! No wonder this card was crashing, it didn't even have the minimum required. When I purchased the card E-machine info said my computer had 350 watts packaged with it (the computer person who helped me at the store went on the website and checked) so we just believed that. :D I will let ya know but I have a good feeling about this!
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