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Getting error message on startup
Captain He-Man replied to maheanuu's topic in Game Demo Discussions
sorry for not replying sooner... i've had midterms (last one tomorrow!) and labs and assignments comming out the wazoo! here are (i hope) answers to all the questions that i've gotten so far. hopefully it will fill everyone in on the state of my pc: -i got the newest video card drivers -i got directx 8.0A -i hit and kicked my computer in all it's special places (sometimes more than once) -i installed sp 1 and 2 -no, i didn't get a formal welcome before. thank you very much for it now. -my mobo is an asus a7v133 sorry to not fully answer everyone before... jeez, you guys are a stiff bunch.. jk i really do appreciate the help. i'll give the bios update a whirl, but if it still doesn't work after that, i'll just wait for the 3rd demo (or until i get the full game itself). would it be better to get updates from asus, or to use this catch-up utility that you mentioned? thanks, he-man Nova: i'm picturing a space ship with a little wagon towed behind it full of fruit baskets... -
Getting error message on startup
Captain He-Man replied to maheanuu's topic in Game Demo Discussions
Nova: what i meant was i don't see how the service packs would help with bcm trying to read from an incorrect area in memory. i know the sp's are suppose to fix windows... but can it really ever be fully fixed anyways? but anyways... I got both service packs, and I still get the same error... I don't see how it can be my video card because the demo worked for me during the summer, when i was running winME... Capt. HM -
Getting error message on startup
Captain He-Man replied to maheanuu's topic in Game Demo Discussions
Thanks for the help.. i'll try getting the service packs, but i don't see how they'll help. And i would so love to just go out and pick up a new video card, but my money tree is bare! Capt. HM -
Getting error message on startup
Captain He-Man replied to maheanuu's topic in Game Demo Discussions
I just redownloaded/reinstalled demo 2, and i get this error when i try to load the game: '"The instruction at "0x004db390" referenced memory at "0x000000000". The memory could not be "read".' Has anyone had this?? I searched the forum (and the faq and vcf with the demo) and i didn't see anything like this, but if i missed it, sorry. EDIT: I forgot to mention that the little 3000AD video loads, and then i get this message after it's done. my system is this: AMD 1.2ghz t-bird 192 megs 'o ram Voodoo 3 3000 16meg agp (with latest drivers) WIN2k (no service packs) DirectX 8.0a Thanks, Capt. HM -
Jeez man.. flight sticks??? If you can play the game with out ever touching the keyboard, can you also play it without going near a joystick?? All I got by way of game controllers is a Gravis Xterminator digial gamepad (and I think Gravis has stopped making those.. it's no longer on their website. )... would that be sufficient? Thanks, Capt. HM. [ 10-27-2001: Message edited by: Captain He-Man ]
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The Bleeding Edge - Negligence or Incompetence
Captain He-Man replied to Supreme Cmdr's topic in General Chatter
I was actually thinking of getting a Radeon 8500 before i started reading reviews about it. It makes me bitter because it seems to have better features than the geforce 3, and it's cheaper too, but every review i've read so far, and now SC's soapbox, keeps saying over and over that the drivers hold it back. I guess I always took divers for granted in the past, but now that I'm considering buying a new card, I've been reading reviews for alot of different cards. I guess for the money a geforce 3 ti 200 would be a good bet, but I'm concerned that the slightly lower clock speeds will have some effect in the near future. I've had my current card (Voodoo 3 3000) for almost 3 years now, and I only payed like 150 (CND) for it.. I certainly don't want to dish out 400+ (CND) for a new card which will last as long. It's a shame that ATI doesn't seem to care about how their cards work with games, as opposed to how the card looks on paper. Those are my 2 cents... Capt. HM. -
Reading the stories that SC, LordDavid, and Gallion posted make me giddy all over... As-f**kin'-if you can do stuff like that (or should I say stuff like that happen) in BCM... simply put, it's amazing! Capt. HM
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i wouldn't take it too badly.. pc gamer, imo, rates games pretty tough. i've seen some good games (or what i thought were good) get some unfair scores. i'd say 77% is pretty damn good, esp. for an indy niche game like BCM.
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Hot Damn!!! If those screens don't get me feeling all warm and fuzzy inside, I don't know what will!! Wicked! Wicked!! WICKED!!! Great Job SC!!! You've made the wait that much harder!! Capt. HM
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I thought the Others was awesome!!! Oh well, not everyone's perfect! Capt. HM
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Hey neat.. just the other day I had a spell of paranoia overcome me, and I started thinking about getting some sort of firewall program... Wow.. good thing I was cruising the 3000AD forums, cause now I have one! Thanks guys! Capt. HM
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I also saw a cpu comparison over at videogames.com (the pc hardware section), and in performance tests, the Athlon 1.2ghz beat the P4 1.4ghz, for some games. I recently bought the Athlon, and that baby is pretty sweet. One thing I noticed, which I think is cool, is that the Althlons are still one big chip, rather than the big cartridge thingy that the P3's are. (I don't know about P4's, but I'm assumeing it's the same) Capt. HM.
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LOL!! Klingons... Scrub like the wind!!!