double trifectia newbie woes sos

devildog · 02-19-08, 09:58 PM

hello all, this is my first post so let me explain the title and my dilemia. i retired, got divorced and was diagnosed with diabetes all during last 6 mo. Lot of time on my hands real quick.this led to second dilemia. found sh3 and am newbie to game, new to forums of any kind and not computer expert. i downloaded sh3 from direct-2 and it sucessfully installed with patch 1.4 included. played thru tutorial w/o crashes. i'm hooked...now the problems start. constant ctd's, and at times shuts down entire computer. so i ran defrag and cleaned out temp file. i still have same problems. my system is win xp-pro, nividia geoforce 6200 vid card, processor x86 family 15 model 12 stepping o authentic amd ~2403 mhz, have 670.23 mb phisical mem available and 1.96 gb virtural mem available. i'm including all this gobblygook cause i ain't sure if it's important or not, but am hoping someone out there do'es. really enjoy this forum, but it's kinda bittersweet cause i know when i start playing...crash. any ideas or help would be greatly appreacited, as i hope to report my first patrol soon as i can figure out wtf is wrong. thanks for your patinice and help-mabye bernard is a time traveling double agent who jumped foward in vr to sabatuge my computer and spelling? naw... thanks
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02-19-08, 09:58 PM	#1
devildog Watch Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 15 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	double trifectia newbie woes sos hello all, this is my first post so let me explain the title and my dilemia. i retired, got divorced and was diagnosed with diabetes all during last 6 mo. Lot of time on my hands real quick.this led to second dilemia. found sh3 and am newbie to game, new to forums of any kind and not computer expert. i downloaded sh3 from direct-2 and it sucessfully installed with patch 1.4 included. played thru tutorial w/o crashes. i'm hooked...now the problems start. constant ctd's, and at times shuts down entire computer. so i ran defrag and cleaned out temp file. i still have same problems. my system is win xp-pro, nividia geoforce 6200 vid card, processor x86 family 15 model 12 stepping o authentic amd ~2403 mhz, have 670.23 mb phisical mem available and 1.96 gb virtural mem available. i'm including all this gobblygook cause i ain't sure if it's important or not, but am hoping someone out there do'es. really enjoy this forum, but it's kinda bittersweet cause i know when i start playing...crash. any ideas or help would be greatly appreacited, as i hope to report my first patrol soon as i can figure out wtf is wrong. thanks for your patinice and help-mabye bernard is a time traveling double agent who jumped foward in vr to sabatuge my computer and spelling? naw... thanks `