game problem

[Xero]

i dotn got an agp but if you think that drive would work can you give me a link?

[Kestrel]

sorry.. I didn't read your original post properly.. you have a celeron 2.2 Ghz Pc.. I would guess that your 128MB Radeon IS in fact an AGP card..

but it's less likely that you have a via chipset..

do you know what motherboard is in your system?

[Xero]

no all i know is my celeron and old vid card are intergrated in the mother board i have a pavilion hp 514n thats all i know those games worked before and i did nothing at all and they jsut stopped working.

[robbro]

[Kestrel]

sorry.. I could be wrong.. but I don't know of ANY celeron motherboard that has a 128MB radeon 9200 integrated into it..

when you connect your monitor to your PC, is it connected near the printer port? or is it connected to one of the slots further down.

the reason it may have just stopped working recently is because one of your driver files could have become corrupted.

so re-install all motherboard patches, Video drivers and DirectX 9.0b.

[Xero]

no no no the card isn t intergrated i have a card intergraded then i got the radeon cause that card worked i had the card for over a year and i had the games for over a year aswell the games worked with the card i dont have the money to buy a new mother board and card and i do not have a agp slot my card is pci i need to know whats wrong with the game? i doubt its a vid card problem cause i did nothign at all to my vid card it jsut stopped working on its own.

btw i allready reinstalled the patches and drivers all my other games work on pc and alot of them are 3d games with better graohics then the other games all the other games have in common are the consol other then that idk whats wrong.

[Xero]

ok about this problem i dotn want to have to buy stuff to fix it it could or cant be a vid card problem idk i mean before this problem the games rran perfect no problem at all i had the same card and drivers that i have now so i dont see whats wrong? second i bought all the games from the store the yall work there not scratched at all. and also i play other games now like halo and raven shield thsoe are 3d games and they run good so i know my computer can handle them i have the lates patches for the games i tried removing them reinstalling them i have directx 9 i got drivers for my card. all i know is the 3 games stoped working at the same time and all 3 of them have a consol other then that i dont know what to do please help me

[Cactus]

Try this,don't know if this is available with the 9200,might be the 9800 or higher but look and see.

Disable VPU Recovery
1) Right-click on the desktop and select properties.
2) Click Settings, then Advanced.
3) Click the SMARTGART tab.
4) Ensure VPU recovery is disabled.
5) Click Apply, then OK.

*EDIT
You could also try and disable Fast Writes

Cactus

[Xero]

[Xero]

well anyone know what i can do i keep trying stuff but nothing works

[Cactus]

Right now are there Yellow Exlamation marks in Device Manager??

Cactus

[Cactus]

Download the new CATALYST Windows XP 4.8 - Driver
(I'm assuming you are running XP---if it another OS please post that info.)

From
Scroll down the page and choose the link that applies to you.

If it's a zip file,open to a Temp folder or create one on your Desktop and install them there,you can delete the folder when your done.
When you re-boot your PC ,point to that folder for the Drivers after it's detected..
Did you update to DirectX9...

**EDIT**
Do you have WinXP SP1 installed.
If not please click the Windows Update link at the bottom of this post in my sig.

Cactus

[Xero]

ya i got windows xp and the sp1 ill try the driver thanks.


no it didnt work what the hell is going on here this is so odd i never seen a problem like this in my life.

[Xero]

[Xero]

thanks for all the help.Well this is odd i did a system recovery and all the games that never worked just started working i dont know why but o well it works