Win XP Issue

GhostBear · #1 January 4th, 2002, 05:09 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Resident Alien 2:

Interesting. That happened to me when I moved to a new system with a Win XP P4 1.6 system.

I have a Geforce 2 MX graphic card, what are you using?

See thread

Question about System Ship Movement Delay Milliseconds

I turned off the graphic animation on ship movement and movement is instant. Takes a little while to get used to the speed but it's a lot better than slow.

I will try turning of the music, then see about the animation setting thing.

BTW, I also have a 64m Geforce 2 card.

I looked at the other thread and haven't seen anything "official" on this problem. Is MM ignoring it because of the Gold release?

GB

Wardad · #2 January 4th, 2002, 06:10 PM

I still enjoy a familar relaxing game of Master of Orion (I not II) and my favorite shooter Privateer II. I have a nice collection of old DOS games complete with boxes etc...

So will XP run these games? If not, what hoops do I have to jump through for multiple operating systems?

P.S. I had to jump through hoops to get Privateer II running on WIN98 with a SBLive card.
Email me If you want a copy of my boot disc edits.

UPGRADES HAPPEN!!!

[ 04 January 2002: Message edited by: Wardad ]

tesco samoa · #3 January 4th, 2002, 06:42 PM

The only gaming problem I have with xp is with BG2.

Slows to a crawl during battles and at other points

Gromitt · #4 February 2nd, 2002, 07:58 AM

I have trouble with slow graphics when playing SEIV on my new dell with XP also. My guess would be a problem with directX. Lucky for me I have more than one computer.

Rigelian Genocidal Maniac · #5 February 2nd, 2002, 11:24 AM

Unfortunately, XP (or DirectX 8 I guess) has a major problem with certain graphics card and motherboard combinations. This manifests itself in games with 3D graphics content, causing BSOD crashes in the most extreme cases. I've had this happen with Half-life, Quake and even Age of Empires on my machine (ABIT KT7, Athlon 1100 and Geoforce 256 card).

Your problem seems like a more minor Version, I've yet to have SE4 crash in the same way (relatively primitive graphics, I guess). There is a beta patch out there from VIA, but this didn't help me 8-( We probably have to wait for a patch from Microsoft, apparently they have 8000+ formal reports of this problem...

[ 02 February 2002: Message edited by: Rigelian Genocidal Maniac ]

Mephisto · #6 February 2nd, 2002, 11:43 AM

quote:
Originally posted by GhostBear:
I looked at the other thread and haven't seen anything "official" on this problem. Is MM ignoring it because of the Gold release?
GB

No, Aaron does not ignore such bugs but he is only one person and only a dozen beta testers. I don't know if any of these have WinXP. There are just some limitations of being a small company.

I personally run W2K and have no problems with games whatsoever.

tesco samoa · #7 February 2nd, 2002, 04:57 PM

I am not having any problems.

Check to see what your running in the background.

This can cause alot of problems.

Esp. Graphics cards

These errors are specific to your configuration.