MacavitySWE
2003-07-27, 08:40 AM
Hey,
I downloaded the trial about 3 days ago to test if I should purchase it, but I've come upon some problems...
First I tried the game on my main gaming PC, specs below:
AMD Athlon 1200mhz
Win98se
512mb SDRAM (think older model, not sure)
80 gig HDD 7200 rpm (or so)
SB Live soundcard
Geforce 4 TI4600 graphics
Latest Zonealarm and antivirus
However, after one day of somewhat flawless gameplay the game locked down in the middle of a game and crashed.
I rebooted and tried again and it looked ok, but suddenly the system said my antivirus had to be reinstalled. So I tried to reinstall it, but the system locked down, twice...
Then the puter refused to even load up windows, which I plan to have fixed later this week in a computertech shop.
So I tried to play the game on my new laptop for fun, specs below:
Compaq Presario 2516EA
Pentium 4, 2.53 Ghz processor
Windows XP home
ATI Radeon 64mb shared graphics card model IGP 345M
512 mb DDR RAM
40 gig HDD 4800 rpm
Latest Zonealarm and antivirus
Now this config loads the game ok, but its a bit bad on graphics, I have to tone down settings to low and set the view distance to one fifth. When I'm on the ground this setup works, barely, however when I try to fly or drive something I get maybe 5-10 minutes, until I reach a big base or something like that. Then the system just freezes and doesn't even crash to windows.
Seems very strange. After a reboot XP tells me something went wrong with the graphics card. However I can't find proper updated drivers for it on ATI's website or compaqs. The version installed now is 6.13.10.6138 from 2002-08-15 so there should be an updated version somewhere I reckon.
Anyone have any ideas what to do?
My plans for the future with my main PC are serious upgrades, just need to figure out what to get.
My laptop isn't really meant to be a gaming PC, but it'll have to do for now as backup.
I downloaded the trial about 3 days ago to test if I should purchase it, but I've come upon some problems...
First I tried the game on my main gaming PC, specs below:
AMD Athlon 1200mhz
Win98se
512mb SDRAM (think older model, not sure)
80 gig HDD 7200 rpm (or so)
SB Live soundcard
Geforce 4 TI4600 graphics
Latest Zonealarm and antivirus
However, after one day of somewhat flawless gameplay the game locked down in the middle of a game and crashed.
I rebooted and tried again and it looked ok, but suddenly the system said my antivirus had to be reinstalled. So I tried to reinstall it, but the system locked down, twice...
Then the puter refused to even load up windows, which I plan to have fixed later this week in a computertech shop.
So I tried to play the game on my new laptop for fun, specs below:
Compaq Presario 2516EA
Pentium 4, 2.53 Ghz processor
Windows XP home
ATI Radeon 64mb shared graphics card model IGP 345M
512 mb DDR RAM
40 gig HDD 4800 rpm
Latest Zonealarm and antivirus
Now this config loads the game ok, but its a bit bad on graphics, I have to tone down settings to low and set the view distance to one fifth. When I'm on the ground this setup works, barely, however when I try to fly or drive something I get maybe 5-10 minutes, until I reach a big base or something like that. Then the system just freezes and doesn't even crash to windows.
Seems very strange. After a reboot XP tells me something went wrong with the graphics card. However I can't find proper updated drivers for it on ATI's website or compaqs. The version installed now is 6.13.10.6138 from 2002-08-15 so there should be an updated version somewhere I reckon.
Anyone have any ideas what to do?
My plans for the future with my main PC are serious upgrades, just need to figure out what to get.
My laptop isn't really meant to be a gaming PC, but it'll have to do for now as backup.