Grief, woe, despair and hideous black screens
MrsH:
Plop. This is not sounding good for my NVidia. Like Orikes, I'm curious about what non-Nvidia's people are recommending.
ZiggyDoodle:
For card recommendations, do read the thread titled: Building/Upgrading a PC for TS2 - Update, 08 September 2006
Based on the advice given there, I installed the ATI Radeon X850XT card and have been very happy with it. In fact, that card introduced all sorts of new graphic details I had not seen before in the game.
I also added a new PSU (power supply unit) to my system to power the card, the new card fan, two DVD drives, and other stuff.
That brings me to a question: Have those having problems with the nVidia cards checked the wattage of those cards against the wattage of their PSU? Could it be that the power supply units are lacking in wattage? Most mfgs will tell you how large a PSU you must have to power a particular card.
Anway, I've been very happy with ATI and would never consider switching brands.
simposiast:
It's not only nVidia cards that go black screen.
I have an HP Pavilion media pc with dual processor 3.4mhz and x600 ATI graphics and it regularly black screens on me. I have tried everything I can think of and everything suggested above, even playing 800x600 with lowest graphics settings and no sound and it still crashes. As it's intermittent, I keep thinking I've fixed it until the next time it crashes.
My laptop doesn't look so pretty, but has never once crashed.
ilikefishfood:
Quote from: MrsH on 2006 November 24, 19:44:21
Plop. This is not sounding good for my NVidia. Like Orikes, I'm curious about what non-Nvidia's people are recommending.
My Radeon is a 9600.
The NVIDIA that I had to ditch was a 6800, which as I mentioned, was orignally on Maxis' "ok" list when OFB came out. After the they were flooded with complaints, that and a couple of other NVIDIA's were just one day, no longer on their list (no explanaiton) *snort*
gethane:
I have an x1900 GT and it plays the Sims beautifully.
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