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| Thread ID: 32430 | 2003-04-18 10:03:00 | Windows xp pro | mikecoup (689) | Press F1 |
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| 136733 | 2003-04-18 10:03:00 | Can anyone tell me why this happens: Loaded winxp pro on a 2.4ghz pentium 4 40 gig harddrive geforce4 video card everything loaded fine until i started to load games in.I know they worked with xp because i was playing them on my old pentium 2 400 mhz geforce2 video card.Now with the new one the games will load once most of them not all they would kick back to the desktop .I did a diretx test in direct 3d and they failed both with direct x 8.1 and also direct x 9 can any one explain how to get them running properly i have formatted and loaded win xp pro 6 times and it does the same thing everytime.Look forward to some comments on the matter Thanks Mike... |
mikecoup (689) | ||
| 136734 | 2003-04-18 10:37:00 | Load the latest drivers for your video card, its probably running on basic Windows defaults? | godfather (25) | ||
| 136735 | 2003-04-18 11:07:00 | sorry godfather i did all of that as well Mike |
mikecoup (689) | ||
| 136736 | 2003-04-18 11:16:00 | As direct X is failing, I think thats the first stop. Have you applied all XP upgrades, incl. SP1? |
godfather (25) | ||
| 136737 | 2003-04-19 05:37:00 | Thanxs GodFather I forgot about the sp1 isn't that a security patch do you think that would have something in it to fix my problem | mikecoup (689) | ||
| 136738 | 2003-04-19 06:06:00 | I think SP1 has more than security patches in it. It is my understanding that it also includes better/more hardware compatibity. It would be worth your while trying it since nothing else is working. Also, did you say you installed your motherboard drivers? |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 136739 | 2003-04-19 06:21:00 | AGP settings in the BIOS could be another area worth looking at - paying attention to Aperature Size, AGP Spread Spectrum and all those other settings that have different names for each bios. Try anything to do with wait states, read buffers, caches (apart from CPU internal/external cache - leave those on) bus master settings etc. Anything that looks associated with a GFX card/PCI bus/AGP bus. Make sure that "assign IRQ to VGA is on/enabled. hope that helps. |
Stormwarden (388) | ||
| 136740 | 2003-04-19 06:26:00 | another thing to consider, is you power supply big enough ? at least 300watts | greenglass (1432) | ||
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