| Renegade freezes with new video card [message #15709] |
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Walrus
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Registered: February 2003
Location: Good old England
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I wouldn’t play with the BIOS if I were you. If there were something wrong with it the card wouldn’t even work. You would no that there was some thing wrong right away.
ok I tried to recreate the problem on my own pc.
1800XP
512ddr
20gb 7200 hd
win98 se
dx 8.something (so sue me I cant be buggered to upgrade it)
creative gf4 420 64mb
I cant get it to crash any more with any of the games. Two other people had the same problem you do on the old forums (I think one was called clockstopper or something), just by defaulting the card the problem was fixed. Heres a few things you can try.
have you tried playing with the settings on the cards for the direct3d and the open gl, just try them at four megs each and go up from there.
windows update, I don’t think this will help, but its worth a try.
uninstall all your games, there might be a conflict, then try ren on its own.
reformat. Just backup all your files. I hate having to do this. But win98 and se have a known problem with its registry, usually when adding a vid card the hard drive has to be reformatted, I had to do this with my creative gf4 420. WIN98 screws up if the drivers are installed too many times. This happened with a gf2pci that I had on another PC as well.
When was the last time you formatted? the problem seems to have vanished on my pc since I have reformatted. That could be your problem.
Bios.... If it works ok, then leave well alone unless you know what you are doing.
start
settings
control panel
system
and check all the tabs here, they might be set up wrong.
If worse comes to worse then you will have to format. Sorry I couldn’t help more. good luck.
Yossarian Lives!
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