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RastaBlasta420
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Joined: 23 Oct 2002
Posts: 92
Location: Canada |
Hey, about the game freezing after loading a saved game, everyone keeps telling me to get a new graphics card and some more RAM and I wont have this problem anymore. Is this true?
System Specs
PIII-500MhZ
128Mb
Diamond Stealth S3 video card
SoundBlaster sound card
Windows ME
Thanks for the help guys.
Last edited by RastaBlasta420 on Mon Nov 04, 2002 11:50 pm; edited 1 time in total |
Mon Nov 04, 2002 10:46 pm |
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DzD
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Joined: 12 Mar 2002
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Location: Sweden |
Probably, at least a better Graphic Card.
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Mon Nov 04, 2002 11:04 pm |
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hwfanatic
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Joined: 28 Oct 2002
Posts: 2850
Location: Belgrade, Serbia |
I have another theory:
WindowsMe is known to provide you with nothing but trouble,.. I wouldn' t be surprised if the os is responsible for the crash. My warmest recommendation: Switch back to Windows98. |
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Tue Nov 05, 2002 9:13 am |
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Merz
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Joined: 22 Oct 2002
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| Diamond Stealth S3 video card .. |
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Which version (2 or 4 MB) of the videocard do you have?
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Tue Nov 05, 2002 9:29 am |
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RastaBlasta420
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Joined: 23 Oct 2002
Posts: 92
Location: Canada |
I think its a 16mb video card or something. Not sure. |
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Tue Nov 05, 2002 9:46 am |
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Merz
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| Two things to keep in mind |
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What PB says about videocards:
- Older chipsets (S3 is implicitly included) are likely to cause troubles
- More texture memory is more important than a high fillrate
Looks like it's high time to honor your Diamond with Grand Funeral  .. and go for smthing newer with lots of memory.
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Tue Nov 05, 2002 10:38 am |
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Pinnen
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Joined: 19 May 2002
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I think HWFanatic has a pretty solid point. Although I would personally suggest WinXP.
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Tue Nov 05, 2002 10:39 am |
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hwfanatic
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Location: Belgrade, Serbia |
quote:
Originally posted by Pinnen
I think HWFanatic has a pretty solid point. Although I would personally suggest WinXP.
Thank you! 
Anyway, xp is my first choise as well, but it won' t run as smoothly on a system with 128mb, as it would on one with 256mb.. Therefore 98 seems to be only solution.
Also, S3 cards do have a temper of their own, but it wouldn' t show itself in that manner; you' re more likely to experience corrupted/missing textures than system halt.
Oh, RastaBlasta420, please tell us if you happened to have experienced such a problem before(what situation etc.).. |
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Tue Nov 05, 2002 3:59 pm |
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Pinnen
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Too true about the memory. XP eats ram for breakfast. And I miss the ctrl+alt+del function in win98 where you could shut down everything except systray and explorer to get a significant performance-boost. In XP all tose processes look so nasty and vital I dare not touch them...
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Tue Nov 05, 2002 5:02 pm |
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Merz
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HWFanatiC: u r right about texture problems with S3 chips with little memory - I used to have Dimond Stealth S3 (not the pro version), and it indeed skipped lot's of texturs in Tom Raider, but TR was one of few games I could manage to run on that card, many just won't do..
RastaBlasta420: you did managed to run the game and make a save, didn't you? How was it running?
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Tue Nov 05, 2002 5:25 pm |
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RastaBlasta420
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Joined: 23 Oct 2002
Posts: 92
Location: Canada |
The game ran perfectly fine the first day I played it. I turned on my computer the next day and it starting freezing 5 seconds into the game.
The video card I have (Diamond Stealth S3) has never had many problems before, I run games like RTCW and Mafia everyday without a problem. This game is the first I experienced problems with. |
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Wed Nov 06, 2002 5:15 am |
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