Nvidia 6200 Video Card & SH3

kiwi_2005 · 12-16-07, 08:28 AM

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Originally Posted by K-61

I bought my brother a copy of SH3 last year. He never really got into it at the time, but now that GWX is out, I have sold him on the idea of giving SH3 a try. I went to his house tonight and installed SH3 for him. The game loads fine, but it will not load past a certain point once you try to do something. I tried to go into the naval academy and do a frame rate count, but it rebooted the computer when it began to load. I can get to the options screen and choose what I want to do, but once it starts to load the academy exercise it locks or reboots. I tried a number of things, including reinstalling or deleting the intro videos but to no avail.

He has recently replace his old video card with an Nvidia 6200, which may be the culprit. His Civ4 crashes, too. I installed the card myself along with the most recent driver set from Nvidia's website. His computer did run SH3 a while back, long before he installed this new card, so I know his machine can run it. He has a P4 @ 2.66 GHz, 2 MB of RAM. The video card has 256 MB.

I looked around for advice about this but haven't had any luck. I'm hoping someone here might have some advice. Thanks.

You should have no trouble with the 6200 card in fact looking at your specs its the same as my older PC except my CPU was an AMD 2.6. But i owned what was considered the worse version to come out for the 6200 cards the ones with just a heatsink and no fan yet she ran GWX 1.1 & 1.3 with no problems in 1280x1204 window mode.

I would defrag the hdd, update the 6200 drivers to the latest for that version and try again.

Good luck!

TomcatMVD · 12-16-07, 08:50 AM

I have a GeForce 6200LE and no prob.
I don't know what monitor you have, but I had some launch problems, fixed after I right clicked on SHIII.exe, and chose run under 800X1200 (I don't remember if those are the right numbers but there's only one such option), you run the game, then exit it, and uncheck that option. That worked for me, however, you are not having the exact same problem, but if your screen happens to be an LCD, may want to give it a try.

12-16-07, 08:50 AM	#2
TomcatMVD Weps Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: MVD, UY Posts: 359 Downloads: 7 Uploads: 0	I have a GeForce 6200LE and no prob. I don't know what monitor you have, but I had some launch problems, fixed after I right clicked on SHIII.exe, and chose run under 800X1200 (I don't remember if those are the right numbers but there's only one such option), you run the game, then exit it, and uncheck that option. That worked for me, however, you are not having the exact same problem, but if your screen happens to be an LCD, may want to give it a try.