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Babyboy
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| ok, when playing games such as morrowind and call of duty periodicly the game will just stop, and go back to the desktop, completely closing the game instantly. they do work well in safe mode though, my system is double all of the requirements, and a 128mb video card, also, when loading levels, i get file errors, but not in safe mode. Whats going on? |
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optimize
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| Posted: 19 Sep 2004 07:46:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Happens to my friends computer all the time... Windows XP Pro, what OS are you running...? |
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Arcane Wizard
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| Posted: 20 Sep 2004 02:41:58 am Post subject: |
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| Used to happen to me on my dads comp when it was filled with spyware and stuff, never ever happened on any of my own systems, not even when the games I played required a more powerfull system. |
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leofox
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| Posted: 20 Sep 2004 07:36:06 am Post subject: |
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yeah, i have thatwith morrowind too. It sucks, i have toplay some parts allover again allthe time  |
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Arcane Wizard
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| Posted: 20 Sep 2004 07:58:20 am Post subject: |
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| Do both of you happen to have an NVidia card? |
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leofox
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| Posted: 20 Sep 2004 08:06:07 am Post subject: |
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i have an Intell Extreme Graphics Card with 64MB memory (maybe shared)
In other the words the worst graphics card available at Dell. |
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Babyboy
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| Posted: 20 Sep 2004 08:54:18 am Post subject: |
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| i am running XP pro, a radeon 9200 video card, and it works alot better with the resolution lower than 1024x768, but all other video options can be on full. |
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Arcane Wizard
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| Posted: 20 Sep 2004 11:35:40 am Post subject: |
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leofox wrote: i have an Intell Extreme Graphics Card with 64MB memory (maybe shared)
In other the words the worst graphics card available at Dell.
I don't think you're supposed to call that a graphics card, it's an onboard chipset, mostly for laptops. Onboard chipsets use shared memory, which makes buying 2 ram sticks and putting them in dual channel mode a good performance boost. (Intel Extreme II is better though)
Anyway, have you both tried cleaning your system of spyware and updating all drivers? Either of the two always did the trick for me, a reformat did too but that's not really a solution. It's also worth it to check how much ram and space for the swap file you've got, though not having enough swap file space shouldn't crash the applciation anymore in windows xp.
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leofox
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| Posted: 20 Sep 2004 11:44:57 am Post subject: |
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| i check for spyware often, but i also download a lot of stuff. I don't think spyware is the problem, i close all unknown not-system processes before i play Morrowind to increase performance. |
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Arcane Wizard
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| Posted: 20 Sep 2004 12:01:11 pm Post subject: |
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And all your drivers are up to date? (and WHQL certified?)
If you want to increase Morrowind's performance even more, download Morrowind FPS Optimizer. |
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Babyboy
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| Posted: 23 Sep 2004 10:10:37 am Post subject: |
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| the games run fine in 800X600 |
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Arcane Wizard
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| Posted: 23 Sep 2004 10:22:15 am Post subject: |
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Then you could make it run fine in 1280*1024.
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leofox
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| Posted: 23 Sep 2004 12:19:45 pm Post subject: |
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| why would you want to do that? |
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Arcane Wizard
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| Posted: 23 Sep 2004 12:57:39 pm Post subject: |
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Gee, why would one want play with higher graphics detail? Because it looks better and makes the game more enjoyable perhaps?
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Babyboy
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| Posted: 23 Sep 2004 04:25:13 pm Post subject: |
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you have a way with words Arcane...
1280X1024, but not 1024X768? i know there is a reason for that, but what is it? |
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Arcane Wizard
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| Posted: 24 Sep 2004 04:23:24 am Post subject: |
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Babyboy wrote: 1280X1024, but not 1024X768? i know there is a reason for that, but what is it?
What? |
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Babyboy
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| Posted: 27 Sep 2004 08:22:10 pm Post subject: |
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okie dokie, i have the solution, all i needed to do was format the computer and put 98 on, that cleared up all installation problems (corrupted media error) and general playing errors, along with file corruption after install
**POOF**
has been fix3d
although now morrowind crashes when i transport from one mages guild to caldera. |
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Arcane Wizard
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Babyboy wrote: okie dokie, i have the solution, all i needed to do was format the computer and put 98 on, that cleared up all installation problems (corrupted media error) and general playing errors, along with file corruption after install
That's not a solution, that's just resetting the scenario.
Quote: although now morrowind crashes when i transport from one mages guild to caldera. It's a bug that's been fixed in one of the patches, update Morrowind. |
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leofox
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| Posted: 28 Sep 2004 08:29:34 am Post subject: |
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Babyboy wrote: okie dokie, i have the solution, all i needed to do was format the computer and put 98 on, that cleared up all installation problems (corrupted media error) and general playing errors, along with file corruption after install
That's one fixing method i'm not going ter try!
Quote: although now morrowind crashes when i transport from one mages guild to caldera.
Don't do that anyway, it's not that far to walk and you'll save some money and train your skills too if you walk. |
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Babyboy
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| Posted: 29 Sep 2004 10:15:11 am Post subject: |
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ill have to look on my map  . the official patches say that i shouldnt install it if i have already installed tribunal or bloodmoon, i have both, should i re install? anyways, have any of you seen the new tes 4: oblivion shots, there is hardly anything online, but Game Informer has a 12 page preview of it. all i know is that it wont be out for another couple years, but they have been working on it since 2002 |
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