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Tgdrysix:
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2006 June 14, 16:32:00
Everybody has problems with this game at some point! The only reason I know some of the answers is because I had to ask questions and someone else told me what to do!
Well you've been most helpful....I'd press the "thanks" button but I know it's just for show....lol....Tgdrysix
ZephyrZodiac:
Like the News Box!
Hegelian:
Quote from: Tgdrysix on 2006 June 14, 14:52:07
Well sad to say none of it helped....I was ALLOWED to play about 20 minutes this round before I got kicked out....I guess I'm going to have to give the driver rollback another wack cause I just refuse to play without the full benifits of my graphics card (Manually decrease Hardware Acceleration)....that is just ridiculous to have a high end card and not be able to use it's features....man I'm so aggravated with this crap.... >:(.....Tgdrysix
While useful in their place, stuff like running spyware killers isn't relevant to your problem. ;D
There are several things to consider:
1) Video drivers. This site is full of complaints about how the game won't run properly with 80.xx nVidia drivers. Several folks have reported success with the 77.xx drivers. If this is a home-built machine, there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to uninstall the current drivers and install 77.xx drivers. Be aware, however, that the nVidia uninstall routine is reported to to leave a lot of stuff behind, so you will probably need to use a utility like Driver Cleaner (www.drivercleaner.net) to get it all out. After removing the current drivers, reboot and cancel the new hardware wizard so that you're running the generic VGA driver that comes with Windows, then install the 77.xx drivers by running the EXE. Note that you probably need to have administrator privileges on the PC in order to remove the current drivers. It may be that the person who built the PC created a separate user account for you, that doesn't have primary Administrator status.
2) The person who built the machine botched the installation and you need to reinstall Windows from scratch.
3) There may be a defective or damaged component in the PC, such as the graphics board or the motherboard itself. Or the power supply could be inadequate (even if it is nominally rated for 400 or 500W). These things can be difficult to diagnose without access to spare parts to swap in and out to see where the problem lies.
4) With 1 GB of RAM, a 2-GB paging file is way too big. Try 100 MB initial and 800 MB max. :) For more info, look here.
FWIW, I have been building my own machines for more than ten years, and I would never buy an nVidia-based graphics board. 8)
jsalemi:
Quote from: Tgdrysix on 2006 June 14, 15:18:42
and it doesn't show any other driver versions that I can roll back to....I think....but I maybe going out on a limb here.....that if you have had older driver versions they will showup somewhere when you click the rollback driver option?
Only if the older drivers were installed and not uninstalled. But in the context of this discussion, I think when folks say to 'rollback your drivers', they're not referring to the rollback thing in Windows. What they're saying is to go to the card vendor's site and download the older drivers (usually found in an archive there somewhere), uninstall the current drivers, and install the older ones.
Some nvidea cards will only work properly with TS2 if you install the drivers from last September (the 78.01 version). I had this problem myself when I temporarily put a GeForce 6600 in my PC while my ATI card was out for repair, and I got the blue screens and reboots until I uninstalled all the nvidea drivers and installed that version. After that, things were fine.
Tgdrysix:
Yesterday I downloaded the new 9 series driver (9.3.1.1) released on the first of this month (still in Beta) and although I did have one blue screen yesterday(after several hours play), I haven't had one today. This driver is twice the size of my previous 8-series one as it apparently has various extra bits & pieces, but I haven't found them yet. Having tried it out for 24 hours, I must say that I can see noticeable improvements. The first thing I noticed on entering the neighbourhood was how much bluer the water was and when I started playing, the speed was greatly increased. Also, whereas before it would take ages to scroll through the various hairstyles and so on when changing appearance (esp. custom ones), now they appear instantly (and I mean instantly). Well worth giving this one a try, especially if like me your pc will let you upgrade a driver but not downgrade it.
Found this on a Podium Thread " Best Nvidia Driver for OFB" .....thinking of giving this a shot.....can't play with the driver version I have now.....should I or shouldn't I that is the question....Tgdrysix
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