Author Topic: MAJOR Problem...fried my CPU!! (Read 1882 times)

Wurger · « **Reply #15 on:** December 10, 2004, 03:09:17 PM »

Actually, I am tired of having the game only use 59.XMB of my 256MB graphics card, and use 600MB of my 1GB RAM to play the game to cater to those that cannot be bothered to spend a couple of bucks for a decent video card. This situation appears to be due to HTC opting to load everything possible into your RAM and not use the video card except for the 'crucial' stuff. Accordingly, increasing detail only sucks up more RAM, not more of the graphics card as you would think it would. So everyone with a decent setup cannot use it to its maximum benefit to account for the 64MB video card crowd...

Bazi

214thCavalier · « **Reply #16 on:** December 10, 2004, 05:51:08 PM »

Increase the settings in your graphics card driver panel.
Example increase AA or AF this will use more of your video cards memory in AH.

nostick · « **Reply #17 on:** December 10, 2004, 06:21:17 PM »

To bazi, I'll speak for the 64mb crowd. I consider myself a gamer not a computer tech. I enjoy sitting down with the little spare time that I have and enjoying a good game. (not building the ultimate pc) When I started my 2 week free trial with aces high the game worked decent enough that I enjoyed playing, It was fun talking to other gamers that enjoyed the same things I do. After awhile however the game turned into a computer glitch. Knowing that my system was out of date, I decided to update to a new one, and speaking of spending a couple bucks, there were 4 models less expensive and only 1 that was more money. Spent the extra money because the salesman assured me that the machine would do any thing i wanted. Now because I'm not a pc tech and believe people that should know the answers, you accuse people like me of dragging down the whole gaming world. We play these games because they are recreational not because we want to build machines that push the limit of graphics, ram, memory and all that other stuff that makes no sense to alot of us. There should be a line drawn somewere that works for gamers like me and gamers like you.
Mr goducks

Raider179 · « **Reply #18 on:** December 10, 2004, 07:12:23 PM »

I have an hp a330n and it is a great computer. I did recently upgrade my video card but it did come with Geforce 4 if I remember correctly.

you got that right about support though. Call them and there is an Indian or a pakistani telling you that his name is bob. Its not so much the brand as whats in it.

airbumba · « **Reply #19 on:** December 10, 2004, 11:28:30 PM »

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Originally posted by goducks
To answer your question, my husbands flying name is "nostick"

It is now.

214thCavalier · « **Reply #20 on:** December 11, 2004, 04:23:00 AM »

Mrs or Mr Goducks.

No mention of which graphics card came with your computer?

Anyway for Mr Goducks future upgrades i will post a link that is from a suppliers point of view regarding video cards capability and price.

It is from a UK site so do not pay much attention to the cost if you are from US.
Exchange rate currently at roughly $1.95 to a £1 besides in the UK we generally pay well over US prices for identical equipment.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?threadid=17333848

Kev367th · « **Reply #21 on:** December 11, 2004, 09:57:24 AM »

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dragging down the whole gaming world

I don't think it's so much that. The problem for games manufacturers in general is where do they draw the line. Games are constantly getting more cpu and graphics card intensive and less capable machines (even some new ones) are incapable of playing them.
Until the major retailers stop providing the mainline stsyems with integrated graphics this is going to be an ongoing system.

Good example, I believe that one of the latest games relesed in order to play at full settings requires a 512mb video card. A 512mb video card is not going to be available on general release until next year. So games manufacturers also look forward to what is going to be released hardware wise.

So the big question for HTC is the same as for the big games companies, where does he put his minimum specs to cater for a large slice of the gaming population? If you look at the minimum specs for AH2 they are a lot lower (32mb vid card) than the vast majority of games out there. I would suggest in fact that the norm nowadays is either 64mb or maybe even 128mb.
Its a constant balance between what they can do game/graphics wise and getting the biggest slice of gamers possible.

MOSQ · « **Reply #22 on:** December 11, 2004, 12:12:39 PM »

IMHO the main problem here is the salesman lied to the consumer. Telling the goducks that this computer was capable of anything, including gaming, was an outright lie or the sales person is an idiot who normally sells washing machines. Any knowledgeable computer geek sales person would NOT have advised purchasing any computer with onboard graphics as a good gaming computer.

Mr. or Mrs. goducks, where did you buy the computer?

Onboard graphics is here to stay. They work great for 99% of the business machine applications, the cost/benefit scale is way over on the onboard graphic side for any standard office use.

But the salesman should have told the goducks it was not going to work for 3D gaming.

101ABN · « **Reply #23 on:** December 11, 2004, 02:55:46 PM »

ha, she is falling into our plan... we are getting her hooked on the message board.. now we need to get her into the game and then our plan is complete... the Mr will be home free.... mmmmmuuuuuuha ha ha ha ha.

bockko · « **Reply #24 on:** December 11, 2004, 06:30:40 PM »

we could tell her about the old air warrior widow's page

nostick · « **Reply #25 on:** December 11, 2004, 07:59:42 PM »

We bought the new computer at Office Max. Our old system is a HP Vectra XE310, 1gig celeron, 384mb, bought used, it has a nVidia MX-4000 64MB video card. That was the machine I started playing on, now it wants no part of the game. With our new system what would be the best card to buy that we won't have to worry about being outdated tommorow. Thx for the posts.
The goducks

nostick · « **Reply #26 on:** December 11, 2004, 10:14:16 PM »

Old air warrior widow's page? Do tell!

AKDogg · « **Reply #27 on:** December 12, 2004, 10:16:44 AM »

I built my AMD 64 3200+ with 1 gig ram, SATA hd, nvidia 5700 128 meg video card, NForce 3 250 (Asus K8N-E) mb for about 600.00.

bockko · « **Reply #28 on:** December 12, 2004, 09:39:42 PM »

Weelllll...you see, many of us have been at this for a few years. Many of the pilots in Aces High cut their teeth on older flight sims. One of the most loved (and hated, but that is a longer story) was Air Warrior. Yep, many men spent countless hours fighting for supremacy....and sometimes our women got a little dusted about the amount of time spent on the PC...as in this old page, the confederate air force's widow page, made during the heyday of air warrior.

http://home.earthlink.net/~ii_ssnifff/caww/best_of_caww.html

perhaps some of you may be able to relate to this page.....

MOSQ · « **Reply #29 on:** December 13, 2004, 11:42:09 AM »

Mr. goducks,

I will repeat what I said earlier, it's strongly advised not to have your gaming machine and business machine one and the same.

Your old HP Vectra should still be working fine as a standard business machine. It has plenty of horsepower for Office. It does not have enough horsepower for gaming, even with a video card upgrade.

In your new machine, you need to open the case and confirm you have an AGP video card slot available, or PCI Express, you may not, some business oriented machines have onboard video and that's it.

If it does have an AGP slot (the short, usually brown, one at the top of all the PCI slots) or PCI Express, (see your system documentaion), and you insist on having it as a gaming AND business machine....

An ATI Radeon 9600 XT, 9800, 9800 Pro should work fine. Several Nvidia based cards will work well too.

Go to Newegg Video cards: Newegg Video Cards and put your minmum and maximum price in the search box on the left. I suggest a minimum price of $150 to get a good card for your new AMD system. Be sure to use either AGP or PCI Express in the filter boxes above the price boxes depending on what type you have.