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| Thread ID: 25721 | 2002-10-10 09:32:00 | graphics hardware acceleration | loser (538) | Press F1 |
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| 87800 | 2002-10-10 09:32:00 | I've switched it off in windows to fix crashes (and it works). What I want to know is will it kill the performance in my games? Or does it only affect windows stuff, and not games that take over the full screen? What does the setting actually do? |
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| 87801 | 2002-10-10 10:11:00 | Yes it will kill your game performance. The setting adjusts the DirectX hardware acceleration, you may find that many games wont even run with the setting set to it's minimum. What is your system configuration? Perhaps I can offer some help as I spent many months getting my lousy VIA motherboard going 100% stable with my Nvidia graphics card.... :| | BIFF (1) | ||
| 87802 | 2002-10-10 10:19:00 | win98se, geforce 2mx200, gigabyte ga7dx+ mobo (i think it's amd northbridge and via southbridge, or the other way round), and athlon 1700+. I have a bluescreen of death at every cold boot, reboot and everything is fine. This is the last thing I've tried, and is the ONLY thing I can change that stops the BSOD. I have 2 instances of win98 installed, one for games and one for everything else. games one is 98lite. I have only altered the setting in the everything else OS, not in the games one... Tried all sorts of different detonator drivers, haven't found a version that helps.... Any suggestions welcome ;) |
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| 87803 | 2002-10-10 10:37:00 | i lie, there is one other thing that helps, details here...my other thread (pressf1.co.nz) but i'm sure the problem is graphics not ram... |
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| 87804 | 2002-10-10 19:20:00 | try to replace the card i recommend a geforce 256 with 32 megs of ddr ram that should help heaps with speed and they cheap as these days on trademe.co.nz around $100 | kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 87805 | 2002-10-10 21:24:00 | Does your BIOS have an option to adjust your AGP driving value? If so try setting it to EA. Do you have a good power supply in your computer? | BIFF (1) | ||
| 87806 | 2002-10-10 21:34:00 | well if the BSOD is not happening with the acceleration wound back it would point to either you still have some rubbish/corrupt driver bits still in there or a directX problem. | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 87807 | 2002-10-10 21:35:00 | Loser, have you tried installing the latest NVidia drivers? I was using the latest ASUSTEK driver for my GeForce2MX card but was still crashing in Ghost Recon, Americas Army and Battlefield1942. Then someone told me what a thicko I was and got me to install the latest NVidia driver. Since then my game never crash while in game. | nzStan (440) | ||
| 87808 | 2002-10-10 21:56:00 | tweak'e: It SHOULDN'T be a corrupt driver. I've tried a few different versions of the detonator, and used detonator destroyer to clean them out.... So what? reinstall directX. nzstan: yes, I've tried the latest drivers. and older ones. biff: no I don't think it has the driving value, I'll have a look though. I'm sure it doesn't... kiwibeat: 100$ is NOT cheap when you are a student, you only get $150 a week and $100 of that goes out to pay the bills, another $10 on bus ticket, another $15 on lunch... I can't afford to go picking up parts just for the purposes of testing, though it would be nice to... |
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| 87809 | 2002-10-10 22:01:00 | PSU is like 300w. I can run the acceleration setting just one notch down from the top and the problem is gone. I still wanna be able to have everrything cranking though.... |
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