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Settler

Feb 2003
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  Old Post 28-02-2003 16:22
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Moo3 & Hardware Acceleration Problem Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

Just to let anyone know who maybe having the problem of the game locking up and unlocking all the time.

When I used the generic winXP drivers the game worked fine. When I installed the latest official Nvidia 41.09 drivers for my GF4 440MX card the problem started.

To overcome the problem I reduced the hardware acceleration on the graphics card to : "Disable all DirectDraw and Direct3D accelerations."

My question is why????? Is my system too fast for the game? surely not?

AMD1800XP
512MB DDR ram
GF4 400MX

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Warlord

Jan 2003
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Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

I have been having nothing but problems with the 4x.xx nvidia drivers, in all kinds of games.

I rolled back to the 30.82 Detonators, and everything is running smoothly again. IMHO Nvidia is on the wrong track with sacrificing stability for speed in their latest drivers.

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Settler

Feb 2003
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Put an end to popups!

I'm afraid to say that this is the only game I have a problem with ie. having to turn the hardware acceleration down.

Dare I say this could be a software problem not a hardware problem.

I mean there is nothing in MOO3 that an old voodoo1 card cuoldn't handle, is there?

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Aug 2002
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Im experiencing excessive amounts of CTDs with my GF4 MX440, I'll try turning of the hardware acceleration and see what happens.
Its not very much fun playing the game with a CTD every 15 mins or so.

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Feb 2003
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What mainboard chipset do you use?

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Aug 2002
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Suffering from ads?

Just wondered!?
Only I use Via Chipset and nvidia GF4, I think there is some inherent incompatibility with via & nvidia (imho)

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Aug 2002
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I tried playing the game with DirectDraw, Direct3D and sound acceleration disabled. I even reduced the the graphics quality ingame because I read that it had helped some ppl.
And guess what, I still keep getting CTDs all the time =(.
Im not sure if this is a DxSU problem or not because I dont get any error msgs.
Im posting the most important parts of my system information in hope that it can be of help to somebody.

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System Information
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Operating System: Windows 2000 Professional (5.0, Build 2195) Service Pack 3
Language: Swedish (Regional Setting: Swedish)
BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+, MMX, 3DNow, ~1.5GHz
Memory: 512MB RAM
Page File: 258MB used, 586MB available
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0 (4.09.0000.0900)

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Display Devices
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Card name: MSI MS-StarForce GeForce4 MX 440 (NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440)
Display Memory: 64.0 MB
Current Mode: 1024 x 768 (32 bit) (100Hz)
Driver Version: 6.13.0010.4072 (English)

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Sound Devices
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Description: SB Live! Wave Device
Driver Version: 5.12.0001.3227 (English)
Driver Provider: Creative

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