game help

[eastybeasty]

hi everyone :rock:

first time of posting here so please be gentle with me! im officially a subsim widow i think, my boyfriend is a member of here so i thought well if ya cant beat em, join em! :lol:

im really hoping someone can help me suss out my evil compy. silent hunter III works fine on rthe computer, running at high details, however a game im desperately trying to play (black and white 2 - expansion pack - if anyones interested) is so and jerky its impossible to play!

we've tried to update the ati driver, but it doesnt seem to have installed properly and have atired a coupla timmes - has anyone else had any problems with this? I've tried a game uninstall and have reinstalled with all available patches, done a disk defrag and the game is running at the lowest resolution and level of detail possible!!

Its really frustrating :damn: as all i wanna do is play me game (when i manage to rescue the compy from my boyfriend and silent hunter :lol::lol: so i would really really appreciate anyones help and thoughts!!

[HunterICX]

Could you post the system specs of your Compy?

and Welcome to Subsim,:ping:,

enjoy the stay, and lets hope some of us can help you out on this one.

HunterICX

[Jimbuna]

Welcome aboard eastybeasty....drivers are a regular problem with graphical games playing. As already suggested, put your computer specs up and I'm sure we'll soon have you sorted :up:

[eastybeasty]

Ta for the help. Its got a AMD 2 Ghz processor, Radeon 9500 graphics card, Nvidia sound card and 768 RAM. The game runs at min 1.6 Ghz processor, 512 RAM and 64 MB GFX card.

Should be more than capable. :damn:

[JSLTIGER]

What are the recommended specs? Additionally, is the AMD processor an Athlon 64 3200+ or is it an Athlon XP 2400+, as there is a huge difference?

[kiwi_2005]

What are the recommended specs? Additionally, is the AMD processor an Athlon 64 3200+ or is it an Athlon XP 2400+, as there is a huge difference?
I have this game just checked the manual and there's no recommended specs mention only the minimum. Use to play it on 3500, 7800gtx, 2gigs ram, and had no problems of course :) But i remeber i had an issue with the game loading up and running slow till i install patch 1.2.


we've tried to update the ati driver, but it doesnt seem to have installed properly and have atired a coupla timmes - has anyone else had any problems with this? I've tried a game uninstall and have reinstalled with all available patches, done a disk defrag and the game is running at the lowest resolution and level of detail possible!!

@eastybeasty
Uninstall the ATI drivers properly first, go into Add/Remove and uninstall them, restart PC and install the new drivers. Also the minmum is crap, you really need a far better PC even for minimum gameplay, if you want to play the game without slowdowns, more ram is needed (1gig 2 is better) and a better graphic card.

[eastybeasty]

hiya guys

thanks for the answers! well ive uninstalled ati and found the original disk for the driver so at least i kno the driver is properly installed now! ive also patched black n white 2...
kiwi is it the expansion pack you have as well?

thanks for the info.....been looking at new compys actually.....as much as i dont wanna admit it maybe i need one. my bf is thinkin to upgrade the current one we'd need to change the motherboard and if we do that we're as well getting a new machine.......hmmm......probably for the best at some point" :roll::rock: