HELPPPPPPP Skuzzy!!!!

[TalonX]

I had to reformat my harddrive.    Minor problem, the system does not see my SoundBlaster Audigy 2 sound card.

No worries, I moved my speakers and mic to the integrated card.....I can record and playback, so it's working.

Problem - I downloaded AHII.  When I try to run it, I get to the first screen for setup, asking for Screen Resolution and Sound card....Those drop downs are blank.    

If I try to move past with NEXT, I get an error report and the game terminates.

What am I missing???

[Skuzzy]

Sounds like you have not installed the native sound and video card drivers.  They do not come on the Windows XP CD (unless this is an OEM computer and you are using the OEM XP CD that camen with it and have not changed the hardware configuration since you bought it).

See http://www.nvidia.com for the video card drivers
and http://www.creativelabs.com for the sound card drivers (do not install the Creative Labs utility programs, just the drivers).

[Krusty]

I found out the hard way that AH won't even load if you don't have a sound card properly installed.

Here's a tip, however: Go to creativelabs.com, go to the support drop-down menu, and use the autoupdater.

I have an Audigy. I got it second hand, but it works. Problem is that there are no drivers to download, anywhere, for it. So I can only update it using the autoupdate feature at creative labs. Give it a shot, it should work

[Kanawa]

Quote: "Problem - I downloaded AHII. When I try to run it, I get to the first screen for setup, asking for Screen Resolution and Sound card....Those drop downs are blank. "

I did not re-formated but just had to delete game and re-install it and its doing exactly the same to me.  No screen resolution choices in the screen resolution (And i did nothing related to sound card so it has noting to do...)
So when you trt to move on you get a message that prog ended...
Something IS wrong.

Tried delete it again and made new download....same result.

We need help



Kan

[Skuzzy]

No video choices indicate a video card tah cannot run the game.  Such as an S3, Trident, or maybe an Intel video chip.  Or you do not have the native video card drivers loaded.

Easy to check.  Run DXDIAG and see what it says about the video card or sound card.

[Kanawa]

I have an ATI Radeon 9250 VC and just re-installed the drivers you always recommanded me Skuzz (4.12 Cat)


I will run the diag to get more info anyway...

[Kanawa]

E-mailing the diag to u...

[Kanawa]

Just tried starting te game again and it worked this time...after running the diag and running the tests (wich all worked fine...)
Dont know if this helped thagame to "see" the Radeon video card...but anyway....its working now....Just freaking weird what puters do sometimes...



Kan

[Skuzzy]

The blank results are due to DirectX returning nothing on the query/init of the video card.  Had you run another DX or OpenGL application before trying Aces High?

Sometimes other applications can leave the video card drivers in a bad state.  I do check this on Aces High to make sure we leave things cleaned up.

DXDIAG has a brute force method of resetting everything not available to other applications (i.e. undocumented call).

[Kanawa]

Just did it that last time when you suggested it...


BTW...
What kind of frame rate should I expect on the game with that video cars 9250 Radeon?
I usuyally get around 40  sometimes in other rooms up to 90...

Some friend of mine suggested overclocking...cause hes gets up to 200 ...is that realistic?





Puter:
XP Home ed
P4 2.0GHz Process
512MB DDR

[Roscoroo]

200 fps is with vsync off and its not very good combo to run ... it messes up the game.

the high fps is ussually what your monitor refresh rate is at .. AE. mines at 85, so 85 fps is my peak.

[Clifra Jones]

Originally posted by Skuzzy
The blank results are due to DirectX returning nothing on the query/init of the video card.  Had you run another DX or OpenGL application before trying Aces High?

Sometimes other applications can leave the video card drivers in a bad state.  I do check this on Aces High to make sure we leave things cleaned up.

DXDIAG has a brute force method of resetting everything not available to other applications (i.e. undocumented call).

One more reason why I always recommend a restart prior to playing AH.

[JTs]

dont forget to disable onboard sound if you get the soundblaster working