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Memory????
Have two cd rom games that were working fine until recently. One game, Motocross Madness2 starts to load then just quits and another Frogger2 will run but the video is grainy. I think this might be a memory problem but am not sure how to troubleshoot. HELP!!
- What do you have for a system? What do you have for memory now? Have you ever defragged your hard drive or cleaned out your TEMP file in Windows? Which video card do you have and which drivers? Does the CD Rom Drive play music CDs without missing a beat? Does it sound normal when it is spinning? I doubt that it is memory unless you are running a new program in the background.
T600R / WIN98SE/ 256 Meg ECC / 20 Gig WD 7200 RPM / 15 Gig WD 5400 RPM / Promise ATA/66 / V770D TNT2 Ultra with Diamond 3.68 Drivers (Very Stable) / SB Live Value / Kingston KNE100TX PCI Network Card / Adaptec 2910 SCSI PCI / HP 5P Scanjet Scanner / HP 94C Printer / MDP3880W Aztech modem replaced by a Zoom 2990 USB V90 Modem (best decision yet) / PC Power & Cooling 300 Watt Power Supply (Noisy but powerfull) - Not too familiar with the L series, but the 128 meg memory is plenty and you are doing the right things in defragging and cleaning out the temp directory. The L series uses Intel's own graphic drivers and are you using the on board video chip? The onboard video chip is not a very good chip for playing games as it has poor performance for most 3d games, but I am at a loss as to why they worked before and not now if nothing else has changed. Maybe Intel has better and updated drivers if you are using the 810 video chip. Some have installed PCI video cards and disabled the 810.
http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/intel810/software.htm
Updating to latest drivers is one step to troubleshooting this, but it can also be your CD Rom Drive. How much room is left on the hard drive? The Swap File needs some room.
T600R / WIN98SE/ 256 Meg ECC / 20 Gig WD 7200 RPM / 15 Gig WD 5400 RPM / Promise ATA/66 / V770D TNT2 Ultra with Diamond 3.68 Drivers (Very Stable) / SB Live Value / Kingston KNE100TX PCI Network Card / Adaptec 2910 SCSI PCI / HP 5P Scanjet Scanner / HP 94C Printer / MDP3880W Aztech modem replaced by a Zoom 2990 USB V90 Modem (best decision yet) / PC Power & Cooling 300 Watt Power Supply (Noisy but powerfull)
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Posted December 8th, 2000 16:00