I was running a nividia geforce mx/mx400 on my current system with FF just fine but I got a new card and some other upgrades for christams and since then i'm having alot of trouble. The new card I got is Nividia geforce 5200. I downloaded the newest drivers but was having problems with the occasional freeze up and problems with losing text when I opened the onscreen map. So...I went to the playonline site and found out the recommended drivers and installed then. Well now its worse then ever. Heres some screenshots of what greeted me.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v38/greenbean12978/Forcefieldmoghouse.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v38/greenbean12978/mooglesbeenbusy.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v38/greenbean12978/kindacool.jpg
I dont understand why my old crappy card runs ff better than my new one. With my old card I would at least score a barely passable score on benchmark..even though ff ran fine, but with this card I can only get benchmark to even run maybe 1/10 tries then it scores less than 900.
Any advice is appreciated. I just want to be able to run FF without crashes and glitches.
My specs are:
Intel Celeron 1300mhz
98SE
1022mb ram
nvidia geforce 5200 with 255mb driver 56.64(confirmed with pol site)
realtek AC'97 audio(sound is always toggled off because it lags my game)
direct x 9.0c
oh and the other upgrades I refered to were maxing out memory(installed) and a new hard drive(yet to be installed).
I run ff in 1024x768 with background resolution same.
texture compression low.
Compressed maps
Normal environmental animation
bump mapping off
sound off
hardware mouse cursor on
Mip mapping on
Yea I can go back to the newest drivers but that doesn't solve the problems I was having before.. like this http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v38/greenbean12978/videoproblems.jpg
Edited, Wed Jan 25 01:11:15 2006 by LindorieIfrit
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You might want to try getting rid of the driver files from your drive and then doing a re-installl of your Graphics Card drivers.
Uninstall them as per normal, then reboot your machine, opting not to let windows install driver for your card.
Then run driver cleaner to clean out the drivers for the respective brand of card (or both) that you want to clean drivers for.
After that re-install your best set of drivers and cross your fingers.
Uninstall them as per normal, then reboot your machine, opting not to let windows install driver for your card.
Then run driver cleaner to clean out the drivers for the respective brand of card (or both) that you want to clean drivers for.
After that re-install your best set of drivers and cross your fingers.
Edited, Wed Jan 25 01:26:49 2006 by blowfin
If the problem isn't my video card what would be your second guess?
Someone told me its my processor and I don't want to replace it if that isn't the problem.
btw. i downloaded that driver cleaner but I can't figure out how to use it. Call me dumb or whatever but it had a warning about not using it if you have a nvidia motherboard and no where can I see what kind of motherboard I have. dxdiag only shows a number.
Someone told me its my processor and I don't want to replace it if that isn't the problem.
btw. i downloaded that driver cleaner but I can't figure out how to use it. Call me dumb or whatever but it had a warning about not using it if you have a nvidia motherboard and no where can I see what kind of motherboard I have. dxdiag only shows a number.
Ok.. apparently I fixed the problem. For anyone else who comes across this it seems windows 98 has a spazz if you have more than 512 memory. I took out half my memory and it seems to be working now(crosses fingers against a jinx).
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