Error in Area51, beginning.

[dazzashazza]

how much memory do you have and what type, is it the old SDRAM or the newer DDRAM ? most of the newer games need at least 512mb of memory and ideally 1 gig of memory in my opinion. also, not sure how good your card is but i run a geforce 6800LE and it just about runs the likes of FEAR, DOOM3 etc on the high settings. you really need a high end card to run these games at a decent frame rate otherwise you get this slowdown youre on about and often a freeze up cos the card cant cope with the detail processing quickly enough. overclocking isnt always a good idea as this can damage your card if youre not careful and cause the games to freeze up.

try running your card at the factory settings, not overclocked and make sure all other programs are off, you can check this by pressing control alt delete at the same time and a box will pop up telling you whats running. its ok to end any programs that are running here, this will free up some much needed memory to run your games.

sounds like you got a decent enough processor but you may need a better graphics card and more memory if youre still getting probs.

hope this helps.

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I have 1.51 gb of ram,... it's DD2,... pretty new I believe. Also I checked on SRTEST.com and it tells me "Congratulations, your system will Rock this product! Wish we had a system that hot you lucky dog."

But still,... I STILL get those stupid glass shard like particals freezing on my screen, before my system totally blanks out and crashes. *see the screenshot above for picture detail*. I have the most recent drivers of both my 3-d card and my mini-ports,.. but still I'm at a loss at why it does this

[BarryB]

Your best bet is an e-mail to Midway support I'm afraid, either that or try another video card in your system and see if it does the same or some older drivers.

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well I tried my other 3-d card again, and it works,.... so I guess my NEW 3-d card just isn't supported??

[Joe Forster/STA]

Or the support for your new 3D card, in even the newest driver package, is not compatible with this game! I remember reading the long lists of fixed game-related bugs in the docs of each nVidia Detonator/Forceware release...

(Oh, by the way, wrong forum. Moved.)

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Ah, I suppose that could be true also,... I'm giving it one last try,... then I give up lol.

BTW, I apologize about the forum mix up ^^

[kid_t]

it could be your monitor - if it is quite old