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SureShot
08-25-2001, 06:40 PM
Hey Everyone, I am new here. Surfed around a little to find answers, but found none so far. OK, here goes.

1) Whenever I play MP, what tends to happen is this; It loads fine, and starts OK - a little slow, but nothing too bad. Then, perhaps five, ten or even a record twenty minutes later the games suddenly... cracks, for wont of a better word. I can suddenly see all the shards that make up my surroundings, and MP himself. Also the menu becopmes blurry and I cannot read the words.
This is not all that bad - I can still play. However, the situation gets worse with the enviroment looking even moe cracked until it is impossible to distinguish objects from men, etc.
Finally at some point, fairly soon after the original crack in the graphics, the game freezes.

2) Occasionally, normally preceding a 'crack' my blue mouse pointer turns up in game, and stays there. Annoying, but I can live with it.

3) This is a general problem - when I download 12.41 drivers and attmept to use them, it says it is not a Win32 valid application. From whatever source, even Nvidia.

Specs:

PIII 500 (Works fine - never had any stutters or anything)
32MB Riva TNT2 Ultra
Soundblaster Card
224MB RAM
About 10GB of hard drive left from original 19GB

Not sure on motherboard - someonme tell me how to find out? Or RAM type - help would be appreciated.

Cheers lads - Leave you to think up some great answers in my time of need

Sure Shot

SureShot
08-25-2001, 07:08 PM
Problem 3 has been sloved by a friend - he downloaded the drivers and gave them to me. Work fine, I think. However, problem number one remains.

I would love to know how to find out - motherboard, and type of ram.

Cheers again

Sure Shot

SureShot
08-26-2001, 07:59 AM
Hey, come on guys, help me out.

Even the knowledge to discover exactly what type of sound card, Ram and motherboard I have would be useful and I am sure most folk know how to do that.

Sure Shot

SureShot
08-26-2001, 03:38 PM
Bump

Schticky
08-26-2001, 09:15 PM
The only way I know how to tell which mobo and RAM cards you have is to take your case off and look on the components themselves.. This is what I had to do when looking to upgrade my processor.. In the end, I just got a mobo/processor combo... lol.. And a new hard drive.. Would never have believed how much difference a good hard drive would make.. (Maxtor 7200 rpm.. don't know how fast the old one was, but it was sloooooowwwwwwwwww) My loading times have been cut in less than half..

SureShot
08-27-2001, 03:39 PM
Nah, surely got to be a way of telling from the software. And sound card? Any idea on that, seeing as you are the only person to answer?

Sure Shot

fractalgp
08-27-2001, 06:02 PM
Windows' system-manager gives many answers, or you can download a program like "SiSoft Sandra" or 3D Mark2001 (I believe it has some sort of hardware-info screen, can't remember exactly though)

Also, the boot-screen of your PC (where it checks the RAM, and finds the drives) usually mention the type of motherboard you have, although this depends on the motherboard/BIOS.

[ 08-27-2001: Message edited by: fractalgp ]

SureShot
08-28-2001, 02:00 PM
Tried em all - still cant find it. There is a display screen, but no audio, unless it is a huge amount of audio codecs.

Anyhow, cheers for trying - got an email form some chap in Remedy, so hoping they can help big style.

Cheers again

Sure Shot