The screenshots make the game look interesting. Unfortunately, the game does not like my NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 video card with 128Mbytes. Too bad.
Any suggestions before it's gone?
Incinerate - 2-13-2010
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Posted 14 years ago #
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GMMan, Hexadecimal Blacksmith
BlockedTry installing the latest drivers for your card and install the latest DirectX libraries. The game works on my computer with a really old Intel integrated graphics chipset.
Posted 14 years ago # -
Quantum Dragon
MemberThese older Nvidia GeForce FX or "GeForce 5" series (codenamed NV30) cards are known to be somewhat problematic!
A) Questionable tactics
Nvidia historically has been known for their impressive OpenGL driver performance and quality, and the FX series maintained this.
However, with regard to image quality in both Direct3D and OpenGL, they aggressively began various optimization techniques not seen before. They started with filtering optimizations by changing how trilinear filtering operated on game textures, reducing its accuracy and thus visual quality.
Nvidia also replaced pixel shader code in software with GeForce FX-optimized versions with lower accuracy. These "tweaks" were especially noticed in benchmark software from Futuremark. In 3DMark03 it was found that Nvidia had gone to extremes to limit the complexity of the scenes through driver shader changeouts and aggressive hacks that prevented parts of the scene from even rendering at all.
B) Discontinued support
Nvidia has ceased driver support for GeForce FX series. The final Driver list include (for Windows 9x & Windows Me): version 81.98 released on December 21, 2005 and (for Windows 2000, 32-bit Windows XP & Media Center Edition): version 175.19 released on July 9, 2008
Note that the 175.19 driver version is known to break Windows Remote Desktop (RDP).
The last version before the problem is 174.74. It was apparently fixed in 177.83, although this version is not available for the GeForce 5 graphic cards.
Also worth of note is that 163.75 is the last known good driver, that correctly handles the adjustment of the video overlay color properties for the GeForce FX Series.
Subsequent WHQL drivers do not handle the whole range of possible video overlay adjustments (169.21) or have no effect on those (175.xx).
( Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_FX_Series )
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You might find answers directly from Nvidia here:
These two links address more details about the FX series with several more links inside them:
General troubleshooting tips for GeForce FX series graphics card
Support for GeForce FX series in Microsoft Vista
The entire Nvidia Support portal starts here: http://www.nvidia.com/page/support.html
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Posted 14 years ago # -
I appreciate your reply GMMan, even though you assumed I had not already been equipped with the latest NVIDIA and DirectX drivers. I rarely seek help before I have fully exhausted all reasonable methods. Updating drivers is elementary. Even my seven year old grandson would know that. Thanks, anyway.
Paul, your information was concise and totally on target, and forced me to accept the conclusion I had come to before I posted my comment; but I took a shot that someone might have some solution I had missed. I'll install a different card. It's not merely to play the game. I've been procrastinating on replacing the card for awhile. I have a 256Mbyte card around here somewhere that is dying to be installed. Thanks for being verbose. Although it did not solve my issue, I am sure anyone who has a similar card will benefit from your input.
"If you push something hard enough it will fall over."
Posted 14 years ago # -
GMMan, Hexadecimal Blacksmith
BlockedYou sure you have very latest DirectX, though? I know they've just pushed out some libraries for February.
Posted 14 years ago # -
Quantum Dragon
MemberDe Nada, ninjitsumo, glad to have (ahem) enlightened you!
If you need more (on any subject), light the "Dragon" signal ;) and I will try to find something helpful*
* It will be on Wednesday when I return from Quebec city (Deserved vacation)
Regards
Paul the French Dragon
Posted 14 years ago # -
goodgotd
MemberWell, I can report that on a MSI GeForce FX5700 (nv36) with 256 megs incinerate works fine under XP SP3. (agp 8x)
Even though it's supposed to have pixel shader 2.0, anything that says PS 2.0 needed won't work.
Not a bad MPEG-2 capture and video-out card, though.
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