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Game dump problem - 7/11/2003 8:51:22 PM

I Earl

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Has anyone else had this problem?

Every 10-20 turns I just get dumped to windows screen. There is no error message or anything but it is becoming rather annoying!

All and any help welcome.

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- 7/11/2003 9:07:13 PM

Mr.Frag

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Try completely disabling your sound to rule out bad sound drivers. If that doesn't help, upgrade your video drivers.

99.99% of all problems are caused by these, the remaining .01% are actual bugs...

Post your system specs, it would help us help you.

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- 7/11/2003 9:28:37 PM

I Earl

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Well the system is only 3 days old

2.8 P4
512 DDR
nVIDIA Geforce 4 MX 440 128mb
80 Gig H/D

Have just updated video drivers although that said they had not passed windows logo test and I will turn off all sound in game although that kind off seems annoying as sound should be on in the game.
Thanks for the tips and let's hope it works!

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- 7/11/2003 9:54:59 PM

Mr.Frag

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A MX card??? Oh Oh :(

Might want to switch that out for something else as that is not aimed at 3D graphics, it's aimed at business use...

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- 7/11/2003 11:00:40 PM

I Earl

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Oh bugger! I think I have been had!

So the Geforce isn't a good card or is it just the mx?

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- 7/11/2003 11:31:15 PM

Mr.Frag

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Just specifically the MX card.

It is a cheaper hybred of the old GeForce 2 series.

The GeForce 3, 3 Ti, 4 Ti, 4 FX are the gamer cards.

Even the original 3 will do things better then the MX (any version) due to the embedded vertex shader (which is software emulated on the MX's poorly).

The MX stuff is DirectX7 vs the others being DX8/9.

If you can flip it out based on the system being brand new, do so. While the difference is not going to be visible in games such as UV, if you see something like Microsoft's Flight Sim or Quake/Doom/etc running side by side with the two cards, you'll be crying.

http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=desktop

Take a look at this link, you'll note that nVidia no longer even claims the MX series is a Gamers or 3D card due to all the negative press they got on the 4 MX (making people think it was better then the 3 Ti's by naming it a 4 ...)

As far as ATI vs nVidia, it is completely dependant based on WHICH cards you look at as to who is better. Each has it's pros and cons. ATI is in the lead right now, but nVidia's stuff always tends to have more stable drivers much quicker the ATI. If you look at their TOP END cards, I'd go ATI if I was buying right now, but I have yet to find anything that needs more then my GeForce 3 (original) on my AMD 1.4c box. I generally bottleneck the CPU before running out of video power, but then I'm not a big first person shooter fan, so I don't need 80 frames a second :D

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