Author Topic: Can't get AH to work on Windows 2000 (Read 740 times)

SmilingBoy · « **on:** November 25, 2001, 03:56:00 PM »

Hi,
I just downloaded AH 1.08p5 and I have big problems...
1. When I start AH, there is no Video Card in the list where I should choose the correct one.
2. It doesn't matter, which resolution, frame rate I choose: The processor gives almost 100% resources to AH but still it is very, very, very slow. When I move the mouse, the mouse pointer jumps about 1 second later. When I manage to put the pointer on offline play and click, the game seems to start but is practically frozen (frame rate 0, mouse pointer moves very slowly etc). It tried to switch to a smaller hardware acceleration in the settings->display->settings->advanced->problems->hardware acceleration. This, however, made it worse and gave me only a white screen (+ the top of the clipboard) on starting AH.

My System:
Pentium II 400
128 MB RAM
SiS 6326 8 MB graphic card
Windows 2000 SP2
DirectX 8.0 (4.08.00.0400) - I will try DirectX 8.1 in a few minutes

I hope you can help me!

Thanks a lot.

SmilingBoy

steely07 · « **Reply #1 on:** November 25, 2001, 05:30:00 PM »

Someone will correct me if i am wrong but i think u need a 16mb vidcard to run these days,i really think the SIS card is the problem,they have never been good cards and i think you might have to upgrade it.
BTW i am running at about 25/35 frames on
Celeron 400
196mb ram
tnt2 16mb
winxp pro
detonator 21.81
dx8.1
Hope this helps

Steely

SmilingBoy · « **Reply #2 on:** November 25, 2001, 05:36:00 PM »

Thanks for the reply.
You might well be right - I think that it just seems a bit strange that it gets *that* slow.
Well, then I will have to wait a bit with playing as I don't feel like buying a new graphic card at the moment, because I wanted to buy a new PC in a few months anyway.
SmilingBoy

steely07 · « **Reply #3 on:** November 25, 2001, 05:56:00 PM »

Have u installed the Win2k drivers for the SIS btw?

SmilingBoy · « **Reply #4 on:** November 25, 2001, 05:59:00 PM »

Yes, I think I did that. I remember that there were problems with th driver I had originally, so I updated to one that was working.

steely07 · « **Reply #5 on:** November 25, 2001, 06:05:00 PM »

Is windows seeing the card correctly in device manager?

SmilingBoy · « **Reply #6 on:** November 25, 2001, 06:07:00 PM »

Yes, there are no conflicts.

steely07 · « **Reply #7 on:** November 25, 2001, 06:17:00 PM »

try deleting your video7.cfg and reboot,retry

,btw what was the last version you could run

steely

SmilingBoy · « **Reply #8 on:** November 25, 2001, 06:19:00 PM »

Tried that already.
Never had any previous versions, I just downloaded it today.

steely07 · « **Reply #9 on:** November 25, 2001, 08:29:00 PM »

Definitaly the videocard then,i think updating it would be a good idea,most games these days require a min spec better than 8mb video,sis are known to be poor cards for gaming,i understand if u cant afford upgrade,me neither,lol...but if u can afford just 1 thing to buy for your computer the videocard will give you the most performance increase.
steely

Oh and trust me,this game/sim is the best around,i recommend you try it

Luck

crboggs · « **Reply #10 on:** November 27, 2001, 09:14:00 AM »

I have the exact same problem described by
the original poster and I am using a newer
GeForce2 Pro card with 64 MB onboard.

I get the white screen with the clipboard
loops at the top, after not being able to
choose a video device.

I'm going to download the most recent video
card drivers and try DirectX 8.1 tonight
and see if that helps, but I don't have high
hopes.

SmilingBoy · « **Reply #11 on:** November 27, 2001, 03:03:00 PM »

Hmm. So it is probably not the graphic card. Any other suggestions?

mrsid2 · « **Reply #12 on:** November 27, 2001, 05:02:00 PM »

I hate to be blunt, but even if you do get AH working, you won't have playable framerates with that hardware.

Your display card is not suitable for any modern game (and even cpu is so-so for the less demanding ones..)

IF aceshigh jams when you try to go online or h2h and you have a firewall running, that's normal and your firewall needs to be configured to let ah get access to the net.

OTOH if that happens offline too, it's probably driver related. I'm pretty sure your displaycard doesn't have DX8 certified drivers - or the whole card is dx8 certified. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if it didn't work with w2k and dx8.

Wingnut_0 · « **Reply #13 on:** November 27, 2001, 07:15:00 PM »

Ducati what is your operating system?

Reason I ask is that when I loaded XP and tried installed the certified XP nvidia drivers (21.83 i believe) I got the same screen.

I eventually had to reload the 7.58 drivers for Win2k to get it to work.

Lephturn · « **Reply #14 on:** November 28, 2001, 09:12:00 AM »

The latest certified (Windows Hardware Quality Lab) drivers from nVidia are the 14.10's. Anything later than that are EXPERIMENTAL drivers, even if they come straight from nVidia. The last "official" (certified by nVidia) drivers are the 12.41's.

Check the link in my sig.

Bottom line, if you are having problems dropping back to the 7.58's for 2k or the 7.78's for 98/ME almost always fixes driver problems. I'd only go to later model drivers for a GeForce 3.