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[Nyarlathotep]

Remember that I said, "almost" certain..

As brand.. well, I have an Asus GeFroce 3 and I'm very happy with it. What you might want to do IF you're going to buy a new one is to take a look at www.tomshardware.com

You'll find all kind of cards compared (different chipsets and brands)..

As extra advise, don't stare blind on the 128 memory cards. Some of them are known to be slower then some 64mb cards. This is due to slower memory on the cards. On the page above you'll find all the information you need.

Good luck !

[Vladimir_Harkonnen]

Thanks for all your help, and for your ideas.  I will update you on my "quest for the holy videocard"  Thanks again

8)

[Nyarlathotep]

No problem. Let me know how things went !

[Vladimir_Harkonnen]

Doc im back, Video Cards are way to expencive. :'(

Remember the problem i had?, I still have it. But when i enter Renegade, then leave without 'playing' Renegade the game quits perfect. So i think its a problem an .exe that wont let me quit back to desktop. ANy HelP????

Thanks again!!!!!!!

[Nyarlathotep]

You mean it still locks up ? ???

[Duneguy]

geforce 2 works fine for me on all the games i have.. no problems yet.

[gunner154]

I have a different problem, sometimes when I quit from a game and I'm the host I exit back to Windows.BTW i'm using GeForce but what type i forgot ;D

[Vladimir_Harkonnen]

Yeah it still locks-up! :-[

[Nyarlathotep]

Have you tried uninstalling and re-installing ?

[Vladimir_Harkonnen]

Actually I did that not to long ago, after uninstalling i did nortons little clean sweep. Computer crashed. Deleted all known WW related stuff, then reinstalled. Still the same problem...

[Nyarlathotep]

I'll see what else I can find to solve it..

[Vladimir_Harkonnen]

...Also, it will only lockup if i play Renegade(ingame) then quit, if i just load up the game then quit right away it wont lockup.

[Nyarlathotep]

If I'm not mistaken, you have 768mb of ram correct ?

I do not know how many memory modules you have, but try removing one or two (guessing there are 3 modules of 256) and then see if it still locksup. If it still does, remove the one that's in there and replace it with another one you already took out.

[Vladimir_Harkonnen]

Yes I have 3 sticks of 256ram. It will be awhile before i can reply back on this, my desk is has a lower cabbnet where i put the CPU. It takes awhile to dig it out. I will talk to you ASAP.

[Nyarlathotep]

No worries, I'll be here..

[Vladimir_Harkonnen]

I did what you said, after reboot after reboot(new hardware detected/rebooting), nothing.

[Nyarlathotep]

It detected new hardware ?? ???

[Vladimir_Harkonnen]

Yeah....thats happened, is that bad?

:-

[Nyarlathotep]

Well not specificly bad.. I just don't see any reason why it would/should detect new hardware if you swap memory modules..

I'll see what else I can find that might solve your problem.. it's getting hard though..

[Vladimir_Harkonnen]

I have a question? DO you think im running to much ram at once?

[Vladimir_Harkonnen]

Hmm, maybe i did it wrong. Could you please respond in a more indepth way? Thanks!

;)

(i'll try again tonight)

[Nyarlathotep]

Well, there's not much wrong you can do. Remove two modules and the start the computer. Just for removing RAM I don't see any reason why it should detect new hardware (probably a feature in Windows that never made it in the manual ;)).As for the amount of RAM, Windows 9x / ME can't deal with more then 512mb ram and as far as I know, if there's more, it simply doesn't use it. XP for example can deal with more ram and will use it..There are options to have Win 9x / ME to use the extra ram, but it involves editing the win.ini if I'm not mistaken..

[Vladimir_Harkonnen]

Aight did what you asked, messed with the sticks changing orders, what not. Then game now goes to desktop, i can see th icon and all. Then it crashes. When i move the mouse or try Ctrl Alt Del it starts making a "beeping" noise. :O

[Nyarlathotep]

And the modules are back in ? If not, please do so.

So now you get into the main menu and then immidiately get thrown back to desktop, without being able to play ?

When it has crashed, and you've rebooted, does that sound still appear ?

[djhenry]

okay, well, maybe try this:

1.try removing one modul (256mb mem chip) and reboot (twice so windows could "respond" to the hardware changes)

2.check out the amount of memory in "my computer properties".

3.set the "virtual memory" setting found in the preformance tab, in "my computer properties" window, check the "let me specify my own virtual memory setting",fill 0 in minimum, and 256 in maximum.

The logic behind this:

1.i don't know what OS you own, but windows` optimal memory is 512mb

2.some programs i have just crash in a very bizzarre way when i let windows manage my virtual memory. some games do the same when windows decides to allocate memory and never really remembers to free it (a known problem for C, C++ compilers in windows)...which might just be it