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Why Me, O why me!! Gods of Mercy, spare me!!!


I have a meager 6.7 FPS on lowest settings. My PC is a rather powerful one, with Mobility radeon 9000 (64 megs) video card. The problem is that its a laptop, and that the latest drivers (that I have installed) are from 2002. (for those who dont know laptop drivers are differents from standard ones).

Tell me there is an ugly trick to run openGL apps faster. ??? I have no solutions as of now.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">One of the reason that alot of games have gone to a bare-bones game with a bare-bones starter guide, and a seperately sold "strategy guide", and a seperately sold "expansion" that was obviously nearly finished when the game was released...... is that pirates do buy strat guides and upgrades.

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Well, I have a serious problem with running the demo. I double click the .exe file, my monitor changes the resoluion, and then simply nothing happens - the game doesn't even start. It stays that way, with resolution changed, and I have to ctrl-alt-del out to restart the comp. Interesting thing is that I actually see the ctrl-alt-del menu, and the game is not listed as running.

I have Win98SE, Athlon 800MHz, ATI Radeon 7200 with 64MB RAM, 256 RAM, and the latest Direct X and drivers.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Maybe some problem when changing resolution.

Try running Dominions II with this switch --window.

If it doesn't work the try with all these together --window --res 640 400.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Thanks for a prompt response. Unfortunatelly, it didn't work. I see a window appearing for a very brief moment and it's titled "SDL_app" or something like that, and then it disappears, and nothing happens. Weird http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

[ October 27, 2003, 19:59: Message edited by: HJ ]

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I think this is some OpenGL error.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">There is a clean and efficient way to make your OpenGL apps run 10 times faster and your other 3d apps will most probably benefit as well. The trick is to go to www.ati.com , download and install their latest driver for your card.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The try running with this switch -dd. It will create a file called log.txt which you can then send to me and I'll take a look at it.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The try running with this switch -dd. It will create a file called log.txt which you can then send to me and I'll take a look at it. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">File sent.
Once again, thank you very much.

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I was trying the demo.
When I tried to forge a magic item, the game froze and I had to use the task manager to end it.