Game freeze with GWX

AVGWarhawk · 01-03-07, 03:30 PM

Go to the START button lower left hand corner of he screen. Go to CONTROL PANEL. Click on icon that is labelled SYSTEM, once open click on HARDWARE tab, then click on device manager, Look for "display adapter" This should show you the card you have. It sounds like your using an onboard videocard to me. Check it out anyway.

Brag · 01-03-07, 03:43 PM

Sis760. Would that be it?
the only thing I did to my computer was add more ram after I bought it

AVGWarhawk · 01-03-07, 03:48 PM

Perhaps the video card is not up to snuff at the moment. Try this first. Shutdown all background programs you are not using. It sounds like your hard drive is swapping files like it is RAM. Free up as much RAM as you can for the game. See how it runs. As far as your video, sounds like you need a card. Look into one (Nvidia) and install it. It is plug and play on the motherboard....extemely easy.

Brag · 01-03-07, 03:54 PM

Many thanks, AVG!

Brag · 01-03-07, 07:41 PM

Tried AVG's suggestion. Shut everything down, sent 200+ screenies into online storage. Game ran a bit better. Met a small freighter, attacked with deck gun. But everythime I tried to use optics (periscope, binoculars, UZO) the game would freeze. To switch from frozen UZO to bridge had to go via the chart screen. But when freighter was destroyed, all I could get was the chart screen. Aaaarrgghh!

Do you think getting a better video card would help? (under a hundred bucks?)

01-03-07, 03:30 PM	#1
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,271 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Go to the START button lower left hand corner of he screen. Go to CONTROL PANEL. Click on icon that is labelled SYSTEM, once open click on HARDWARE tab, then click on device manager, Look for "display adapter" This should show you the card you have. It sounds like your using an onboard videocard to me. Check it out anyway. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

01-03-07, 03:43 PM	#2
Brag Navy Seal Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Docked on a Russian pond Posts: 7,072 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Sis760. Would that be it? the only thing I did to my computer was add more ram after I bought it __________________ Espionage, adventure, suspense, are just a click away Click here to look inside Brag's book: Amazon.com: Kingmaker: Alexey Braguine: Books Order Kingmaker here: http://www.subsim.com/store.html For Tactics visit:http://www.freewebs.com/kielman/

01-03-07, 03:48 PM	#3
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,271 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Perhaps the video card is not up to snuff at the moment. Try this first. Shutdown all background programs you are not using. It sounds like your hard drive is swapping files like it is RAM. Free up as much RAM as you can for the game. See how it runs. As far as your video, sounds like you need a card. Look into one (Nvidia) and install it. It is plug and play on the motherboard....extemely easy. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

01-03-07, 03:54 PM	#4
Brag Navy Seal Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Docked on a Russian pond Posts: 7,072 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Many thanks, AVG! __________________ Espionage, adventure, suspense, are just a click away Click here to look inside Brag's book: Amazon.com: Kingmaker: Alexey Braguine: Books Order Kingmaker here: http://www.subsim.com/store.html For Tactics visit:http://www.freewebs.com/kielman/

01-03-07, 07:41 PM	#5
Brag Navy Seal Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Docked on a Russian pond Posts: 7,072 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Tried AVG's suggestion. Shut everything down, sent 200+ screenies into online storage. Game ran a bit better. Met a small freighter, attacked with deck gun. But everythime I tried to use optics (periscope, binoculars, UZO) the game would freeze. To switch from frozen UZO to bridge had to go via the chart screen. But when freighter was destroyed, all I could get was the chart screen. Aaaarrgghh! Do you think getting a better video card would help? (under a hundred bucks?) __________________ Espionage, adventure, suspense, are just a click away Click here to look inside Brag's book: Amazon.com: Kingmaker: Alexey Braguine: Books Order Kingmaker here: http://www.subsim.com/store.html For Tactics visit:http://www.freewebs.com/kielman/