General's Problem

[Seal89999]

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[guusr5644]

I agree.. but! im not that stupid... i checked it out and lc had exactly the same system... (same vid card 2) maybe when this vid card gets old he do you that kind of stuff... as i said lc bought a new radeon and all his problems were solved.

[Seal89999]

So are you inferin that generals is fu**** until i get a new video card?

Man dude that would suck......

There must be another way, and thats what the others im hoping will find....

[Atomic Mitten]

Try downloading the latest graphics card drivers here:

http://nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

version 53,03

It may or may not resolve the problem,

but you have to be reasonable, you are expecting a low end graphics card to deal with high performance games.

[Seal89999]

Somehow my ...low end graphics card seemed to run the high end game a couple weeks ago......

Somehow.........

[Atomic Mitten]

Well whatever changed only you know that !

Have you tried the new drivers.?

[GhostHunter]

Going off topic here, leave the card he has alone guys - I even saw it playing Generals at his house fine, it has to be something else.

[Seal89999]

Yeah I installed the new drivers...

Anything else you might recomend?

Maybe I should free up some more memory im pretty short on that....

Any ideas?

[Atomic Mitten]

If you use ctrl,alt ,delete then select the processers tab, try closing down some processers.

Not the ones marked System though !

See if there are any extensions you recognise, that you know for sure you don't need.

If you close the wrong proc.then simply re-boot, to put evereything back to normal again.

For instance if you have any video apps running , look at the right hand column and you will see how much memory each running process is using.

[gryphon]

I even saw it playing Generals at his house fine, it has to be something else.

just a guess at this time. . mayby a bit radical .. is Generals the only game giving errors ?

if not you might want to reinstall Windows. . .

[Atomic Mitten]

Do you have anything like DVD apps or Power cinema running.Open the Nvidia control panel and see if side band addressing is enabled or fast writes.

Also see what agp speed your card is set too, trying setting it to a lower setting, see if that works.

[Seal89999]

just a guess at this time. . mayby a bit radical .. is Generals the only game giving errors ?

if not you might want to reinstall Windows. . .

This is the only game I have seen this problem with....

[Seal89999]

To my horror Zero Hour is the same way.....

But that is a branch of Generals so I was expecting that....

[guusr5644]

Well... let me think what lc didnt try.... maybe that side addressing thing... it cant be the textures... maybe your cd is jammed? if so then it would solve the case... (i can get ya no cd patch)

EDIT: sorry its not a cd problem...  tell me, what did you do before it happend? after how long since your last normal game the black ground appeared?

[Seal89999]

Must have been a couple of weeks since I played a unaffected game.

I would sorta doubt it was the software because both generals and zero hour are effected.

Im gonna install on another computer to check though.

I dont rember changing any settings

maybe i could do a syster restore and turn back the clock..... i would have to backup the files i have gotten since the restore time but that is duable

[Seal89999]

I just downloaded the Generals patch just to see if that would help but no change....

[Atomic Mitten]

The only other suggestion I can make apart from getting a better graphics card, is to take out your present card and re-seat it in the slot again, this sometimes helps.

[Atomic Mitten]

If you read this it might help :

link

[guusr5644]

The only other suggestion I can make apart from getting a better graphics card, is to take out your present card and re-seat it in the slot again, this sometimes helps.

Did you read my mind or something? ??? your creepy dude...

[Atomic Mitten]

Why is that.lol ?

[guusr5644]

lol cause i was just about to suggest him to do that...

[Seal89999]

The graphics card works dammit....

But I will re-seat it and tell you the results...

[Atomic Mitten]

Did you install Jedi knight before or after you started having problems ?

[Seal89999]

uh..........

I got it on christmas eve,  dident install it them, must have installed it on christmas day...

I wanted to use Generals after christmas so yeah I guess before I started having trouble....

Do you think Jedi Knight is messing up Generals?

[Atomic Mitten]

Yep !