half a modem...

[Lizard3]

Ok guru's here's one for ya. I recently upgraded my mobo and proc to a MSI KT333 with a Athlon XP 1800+ with 256 meg of DDR333. After the install, everything went well except...My modem only sends, it does not recieve. Occasionally it will say its recieved a few hundred bytes, but never any more. It wont check mail, nothing nada zip. I've re-installed drivers, rechecked the bios a few times, swapped out modems with an old spare I had. I cut out most of the phone line gobldy gook and have one hooked up straight to the wall. I've uninstalled/re-installed winders communication stuff. I've removed, re-installed the ISP's software a few times and spent over 2 hours on the phone with tech support...all to no avail. Any Ideas would be appreciated. I also cant get into AH offline, I get the pretty light blue screen and nothing else as soon as I click the AH Icon. I can alt/tab out to kill it, but can't seem to access AH at all. As far as that goes, I've re-installed DX8.1 and video drivers but I've mostly been concentrating on the modem problem as it seems the bigger of the two.

I'm preparing for a Format C when I get home from work...again, any ideas would be helpfull and appreciated.

Ah...I'm running winders ME and a geforce3 Ti200. The modems are a US robo winmodem and a Motorola sm56 voice.

[SKurj]

ouch ick...  

Strange it will even connect...

SKurj

[Lizard3]

Thanks for all the help SKurj

I have conquered the half a modem problem with a formatC etc. I still have the problems with the blue screen upon starting up AH. The video card worked fine before I changed mother boards. I've deleted the video settings numerous times and changed them, yet still get the blue screen. Offline and online. I've got DX8.1 installed, the latest detonator drivers, latest Via4in1's. Its a brand new fresh slate. I also upgraded my monitor and have virually infinite sizes and refresh rates to choose from.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

[SKurj]

What message is displayed on this blue screen?

Something is definitely wrong here... only thing is i have no clue what it could be..  perhaps some bad hardware... do other 3d games work ok?

I have never been errmm (delicacy) brave enuff to try ME myself as all I have ever heard is negative things about it...


SKurj

[Lizard3]

No message. Its the screen most people get when there is some kind of video problem I believe. Its just blue. A nice pretty blue but just blue.

Other games have and do still work.

I've heard things like that about ME also, but have yet to encounter a problem with it specifically. It actually saved my bellybutton the last time I did a major upgrade. I couldn't get the IRQ stuff to settle down, there was always something "missing" either CDROM, modem, soundcard, no matter what I did one would go tits up. After pulling hair, I got an inspiration and went out and bought ME. It fixed me all up. No more conflicts, no more problems.

Now skurj, not to be rude or nothing...aw, never mind.

[SKurj]

Lizard run dxdiag and post the txt file contents in here.  Perhaps someone else can see something...

oh yeah.. is anything sharing an IRQ with the video or sound card?

SKurj

[SKurj]

As far as frame rate optimization...

if you want all out speed match your AH res to your desktop and run 16 bit colour with antialiasing off and v-sync off

If you want performance with quality

32 bit colour at desktop res with no antialiasing and v-sync on

if you want less performance and look pretty run same as above at a resolution above desktop with antialiasing on as high as you can stand


For AH you don't need to mess with all the adjustments you have available for the video card, most make such a small impact as to be worthless.

I use an XP1800+ @ 1900+ speed with a GF4 MX (28.32 drivers)and use 1024x768x32bpp(same as desktop) with v-sync off.  I am very happy with the performance in AH.  Frame rates from 40-100+
I also have CTD'd once and lockedup only once in 1.10


SKurj

[Lizard3]

Well, thanks for all the help. I ran some tests in dxdiag and came up with some proplems in D3D, following its advice I went to winders help and troubleshooting screen. It said to go into my display properties, settings, advanced and adjust the hardware acceleration slider down 2 notches and I did. Low and behold, AH worked fine. I went back, bumped it up a notch and tried again...AH still worked. So thinking I would duplicate the failure, I bumped it back up to the full acceleration setting and guess what, AH still works. I don't know why, but it works:D

[DAVENRINO]

Lizard3,
I hope your not using that WINmodem for AH.  Good modems are relatively cheap and  your system is only as good as the weakest link.
DJ229

[Lizard3]

Yep, seems both turn out to be "winmodems". As much as I paid for em, I'd a figured otherwise. I have one of the best dialup connections I've ever had though, 48 to 52k regular and with a cookin processor I've got, I don't think I'll miss a thing. Anyway, word is you don't really need any more than say 19k to play the game well anyway, anything higher and your just ensuring you die in a head on collision...word is anyway.

[Twist]

Still using those girly winmodems I see. Can't say I didn't warn you years ago......