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I just got the game, from Direct2Drive, with the first few expansions (just doesn't have the newest one). Whenever I try to start the game, it loads up the game cursor, screen goes black, then it just boots me back to windows. I tried updating all my drivers, and rebooting like 4 times, but no luck.
If you had listed more information you might get a better answer. First off you probably should have just went ahead and bought Kunark. It would have been $40 and you would have gotten ALL expansions plus the 3 adv packs. Whats bad is if you decide to upgrade to it later you will have to spend another $40.
What are your PC specs? From what little information you have provided I would guess it has something to do with your video card? Hopefully your video card is powerful enough to support eq2?
When you get into the launcher you might check the do a full file scan button. Will take some time but if you have a corrupted file it might fix it. Thats all I know to tell you with what you provided.
What are your PC specs? From what little information you have provided I would guess it has something to do with your video card? Hopefully your video card is powerful enough to support eq2?
When you get into the launcher you might check the do a full file scan button. Will take some time but if you have a corrupted file it might fix it. Thats all I know to tell you with what you provided.
Hi
My computer specs are...
AMD Athlon 1.7 gHz Processor
1 GB RAM
ATI Radeon 7500 Series, 64 MB (Driver release date 01/24/2006)
On-board nVidia NForce sound
Running windows 2000.
AMD Athlon 1.7 gHz Processor
1 GB RAM
ATI Radeon 7500 Series, 64 MB (Driver release date 01/24/2006)
On-board nVidia NForce sound
Running windows 2000.
Please, someone?
It sounds like your video card. The 7500 series isn't listed as a supported card type. Here is the official list.
So wait... my choices are either buy a new card or mark my $20 spent a waste?
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Em graphics card is probably the case, you probably can get one that will run it for 60 bucks... on the other hand though, I would just upgrade the entire system by buying a new one. www.dell.com and finace something thats affordable to you. (as in eq2 and new games are hardware intensive, wow still probably looked ok on ur system, but only b/c those programers/artist there knew what they were doing when making that for a mass market)
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Squeaky wrote:
So wait... my choices are either buy a new card or mark my $20 spent a waste?
You could try upgrading your video drivers. No guarantee it will work, but at least it's free to try and won't hurt anything else. If you've listed your video card properly, you need this driver: http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/2k/radeonx-2k.html
Tried this, didn't work.
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Squeaky wrote:
Tried this, didn't work.
Then you're probably S.O.L. unless you upgrade that poor old computer. As mentioned above, you could get an EQ2-supported card relatively cheap if you aren't buying the cutting-edge stuff. Alas, the moral is "read the system requirements first".
For people considering the game, I always recommend one of the free trials - that way you can discover for free if your system will run it.
That entire computer is too low spec to play EQ2. Scrap it and upgrade to somethign better.
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Make sure you run a DirectX diagnostic too, if there are any errors in there it could be a problem. I'd double check Device manager for any conflicts in there, especially on Video or sound hardware.
In the controls for sound/video you might try reducing hardware acceleration too, sometimes that makes games stop flipping out on low end systems.
In the controls for sound/video you might try reducing hardware acceleration too, sometimes that makes games stop flipping out on low end systems.
I have had the game running on a PC smaller then that one. MY friend had it working on a Athlon 1700, 512 megs of pc133 memory and a geforce 2 32meg video card. Granted it looked like crap and running through town was nearly impossible. However it did work.
If you really want to be tight do a search on ebay for Geforce cards priced from 0 to 30 dollars and you will find TONS of them buy it now for about $35 shipped. Granted once again it won't run that game real good but it will run it at a playable speed.
I have 2 PC's for when a friend comes over. My other PC just has a geforce 3 in it and it runs the game at near full speed with the graphics turned down. IT does have 2 gigs of DDR memory in it though. The processor speed it exactly the same as yours though. All of the PC's mentioned have been custom built jobs also.
If you really want to be tight do a search on ebay for Geforce cards priced from 0 to 30 dollars and you will find TONS of them buy it now for about $35 shipped. Granted once again it won't run that game real good but it will run it at a playable speed.
I have 2 PC's for when a friend comes over. My other PC just has a geforce 3 in it and it runs the game at near full speed with the graphics turned down. IT does have 2 gigs of DDR memory in it though. The processor speed it exactly the same as yours though. All of the PC's mentioned have been custom built jobs also.
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If you can afford to but a new computer that would defiantly be a good idea. Otherwise just do what the person above me said and buy a new cheap video card. On all lowest settings the game runs performance wise just a tad slower than FFXI on minimum graphics.
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