Problems running ingame movies.

Mr1337Duck · 2004-02-06, 09:19 PM

On some games, I just can't run the movies well. DXIW, Morrowind, etc. It'll go fairly laggy and occasionally go perfectly but there's no sound, or sometimes just not do anything for a couple seconds. It just really pisses me off, how do I fix this?

My Video card: Nvidia GeForce 4 4400
My (ancient) Sound card: Creative Soundblaster Live! Value
My memory: 256 megs

Sputty · 2004-02-06, 09:21 PM

Hmmm, get as many codecs as you can, and it may be the mixture of low RAM and bad vid card. I have a soundblaster Live too and have no problems

Rbstr · 2004-02-06, 09:22 PM

The Tech forum is were these posts need to go. Your not even a noob.

256 megs of memory is just enough to run Win XP you need more memory

What is up with all the missplaced threads lately?

Mr1337Duck · 2004-02-06, 09:24 PM

Windows 98, here.

What the fuck is a Codec? ayme nogt az samrt as yuo peepl.

Rbstr · 2004-02-06, 09:25 PM

Yeah how fast is your proccesor?

Codecs should have nothing to do with game movies

Mr1337Duck · 2004-02-06, 09:31 PM

It's an AMD Athlon.

Octavian · 2004-02-06, 09:52 PM

How much space do you have left on your HDD? Happened to me and when I cleared some space it worked fine.

Rbstr · 2004-02-06, 09:54 PM

yeah thats not the speed buddy, AMD Athlon helps about as much as saying, over a Car trouble shooting hotline when asked "What type of automobile is it?" and you answer "It's a car."

Octavian · 2004-02-06, 10:06 PM

Wow are you a car technician as well?

Rbstr · 2004-02-07, 12:31 AM

No, but i thought it made a good example

Mr1337Duck · 2004-02-07, 01:18 AM

lol, 750, maybe, I'll go ask. Brb.

Uh... huh... is it supposed to be in start/control panel/system?

If so, it's not there.

Mr1337Duck · 2004-02-07, 01:27 AM

Jesus, I really gotta learn more about my hardware... I feel stupid...

Octavian · 2004-02-07, 01:30 AM

Oh my god. Rbstr, come here and protect me from him. Anyways, it should be in your BIOS unless that has been disabled by your manufacturer. If it is, just go to Start > Run and type in "dxdiag". Without the quotation marks of course.

Mr1337Duck · 2004-02-07, 01:32 AM

God... 650. Yeah, that's probably it.

Octavian · 2004-02-07, 01:39 AM

God, that's below the recommended processor speed fro MW. Get a new processor, get more RAM. Perhaps a new graphics card, just listen to see what Rbstr says.