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Updating Monitor Drivers
Disco Bandit
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So I'm trying to play Rainslick Precipice of Darkness on my parents' old computer. It first told me I didn't have an updated Open GL, so I updated the graphics card drivers. Now, it says that the sahder system failed to initialize, and to update my display device drivers.
I managed to find some drivers for the Multisync FE700+ monitor they have, but there's no executable or anything to run, it's just a bunch of .ICM files. Do I need to put these somewhere? What do I do with these things?
Edit: Also, a Q about the card -- GeForce 2 MX400 or something. Can this thing even handle the game?
I managed to find some drivers for the Multisync FE700+ monitor they have, but there's no executable or anything to run, it's just a bunch of .ICM files. Do I need to put these somewhere? What do I do with these things?
Edit: Also, a Q about the card -- GeForce 2 MX400 or something. Can this thing even handle the game?
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From what you say, your video card shouldn't be the issue. This game doesn't really require much of a hoss to run, so you might be having driver issues somewhere still. The * after the video card is undefined, so I have no idea what that denotes.
It's probably going to require a video card upgrade. OP, do you have an AGP port or just PCI?
Yeah, the video card is ancient. I'll probably buy a new one. I was looking on Newegg, and it seems I could get one that would work for like $25. I see at least 1 AGP in that price range and a lot of PCI-Express.
Is PCI express different than just regular PCI?
"2" is lower than "5200" so they kind of have you there.
And a GeForce 2 is not going to run OtRSPoD.
No, they don't. '2' is greater than 'GeForce MX'. Note the distinct lack of a number in 'GeForce MX'. Are you seriously going to try and argue that nVidia et al. number their cards in a manner that isn't confusing to a consumer?
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PCI Express is completely different from PCI. Your computer (in this case) does not have PCI Express, only PCI. If you have AGP, go that route.
The numbering of ATI/Nvidia cards over the years have been pretty bad, but I just want to point out that I think you may be reading the system requirements wrong. It asks for a GeForce FX 5200 or better, not MX. If nothing else the different letters would imply a different series even if M admittedly comes after F in the alphabet, thus causing some additional confusion.
Uh, OK? I read it wrong but you still agree it's confusing? Whatever duder.
No, I agree that the way their card have been named in the past have been confusing (it's not so much the case with the last two generations), but your reply to TychoCelchuuu tells me that you must be misreading something because the bolded part of your reply doesn't really make much sense in reply to any previous posts in the thread unless you read FX as MX in your first quote with the requirements from the game website.
From the AGP list, I'd go with the Radeon 9550 at $33 rather than one of those Geforce FX 5200s at $26, unless you absolutely need a low-profile card.
If you want something to meet the Recommended rather than just the Minimum requirements, the Geforce 6800xt at $48 is a fair deal.
This is not the same as Spore will be pretty like in all the videos.
Also, to answer your other question, PCI-e is very different from old-school PCI and AGP - the basic transmission protocols are the same but everything else is different, from the bandwidth to the socket.
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It looks like you should be alright. At 800x600 you should get a smooth game, and 1024x768 you're probably skirting the edges of choppiness with frame rates in the low-mid 20s, possibly the high teens in busy scenes. Anything above 1024x768 and you're asking for trouble.
Numbers for Sims 2, via Anandtech
Radeon 9800 Pro (about 2x better than the Newegg 9550), Catalyst 4.11 drivers
800x600: 48.7 fps
1024x768: 38.7 fps
1280x1024: 30.5 fps
Geforce 6600GT (about equal to 6800xt), Forceware 66.93 drivers
800x600: 50.3 fps
1024x768: 42.1 fps
1280x1024: 32.6 fps
Test machine:
Athlon 64 FX-55 (2.6 GHz) - significantly better than your CPU.
1 GB DDR-400 RAM - double your amount of memory.
nForce 3-based motherboard
Well, chances are that you probably will be able to start the game [Spore] but actually being able to run the game well...I'm not so sure. Then again, the nature of the game probably means that I won't matter all that much if things are fluid and flows well all the time. If that's the card you want then see if you can find the GS or GT model of it for around the same price and go with that instead.
It's no 6800, but it meets the minimum for PA Ep1. You'd have until September before you had to upgrade for Spore.
It currently has a 20 dollar rebate, so it'd be $59.99.
A GeForce 2 MX 400 is literally one of the weakest cards in the entire GeForce line, ever. It was actually weaker than the Voodoo 3 in its day.
No, it will never run RSPD ever, ever.
Ever.
I think there was only one weaker GeForce and it was the MX 200.
To Disco Bandit: you might want to step lightly, if you actually own a computer that was running a GeForce 2, you probably don't have a slot that can support anything remotely new in the graphics department.
At best you probably have an AGP 8x...
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