help me people please!
 

Hi,

I have a prob....i have just setup XP Profeessional on my network....i used to have ME and it was all fine....but now when i boot MOHAA i find that the screen seems to shake slightly...as though the refresh rate isnt high enough...but this only happens on MOHAA.

Also it wont save any adjustments i make in the options,,,like the resolution...it jus goes back to default next time i play the game!

Like i say when i ran the game in exactly the same state in windows ME this didnt happen....any ideas?? Some system details below:

AMD THlon 1400
512mb ddr pc2100
Nvidia MX400 geforce 2 64mb (with latest driver for XP from http://www.inno3d.com)
seagate 60gb 7200rpm hdd

Cheers,

Dan.

does it save your controls?

I experience that problem with breakthrough,

but that may just of been somethin else. But the controls didn't reset.

I've had this problem once before. Happened just before the video card went bad.

Does the account you're using to play mohaa have administrator privledges? I had a similar problem with a modeling program: it wouldn't save the changes I made to the hotkeys between sessions. I had to make the changes everytime I opened the program. Once my account was given administrator privledges it would save the changes.

I had the same problem and it was just as Bane said. Be sure you have admin priviledges on your account.

Im sure the privileges are ok as i am the admin on the system...i will check though as ive only just set this partuicular system up.

About the graphics though....christ knows whats going on there, i can only think its some kind of driver problem with openGL or somin....bloody nightmare.

Cheers lads....keep any other suggestions coming in though......thnx.

Dan.

Maybe try the latest drivers from the NVidia site: [url:82544]http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp-2k_45.23[/url:82544] :if they're different.

Yeah jus checked that out mate....but i already have the 45.23 driver installed its seems :-(

cheers anyway....keep em rollin in

Dan.

Roll back the drivers to a previous version. Some cards have serious issues with the 45.23 drivers. Particurally the older ones and the new FX generation. If you try an older driver, that may fix your problem. To do so, make sure you go to add/remove programs and remove Nvidia display drivers before installing the older ones.

well i have used 2 drivers now....the one XP put on there automatically and then the 45.23....and no diff i dont think....i will try again now tho

nah mate i just rolled back to the Nvidia 4.4.0.3 driver and its the same :-( bloody annoying i tell ya

Dan

I know im stumped... but we can try some trouble shooting.

First, if you have any extra video cards lying around, swap them out and see if that corrects the problem.

Second, I assume you're running direct X 9.0?

Third, Just go through your bios settings to verify the the AGP settings are properly set for your card.

ok ive checked a few things......

1) I have a pci card i could swap but its pretty crap, i will have to test that tomorrow.

2) i am running direct x 9.0

3) agp settings are as follows in bios:

system performance - Normal
aperture size - 256
agp data trans mode - 4x (which is what the card runs at...so that ok)
agp secondary lat timer - 20h
sdram timing setting by - auto
agp always compensate - enabled
super bypass mode - enabled
agp fast write - enabled
agp isa aliasing - enabled

Everything else on the list is set to Disabled.

Dunno if this helps?

Cheers,

Dan.

The apature size should be set to the amount of memory in your video card. Which i am assuming is either 32 mb or 64. Other than that, everything else looks correct.

I thought the aperture size was how much of main memory (ram) the video card was allowed to use? I was told that you could enter an amount of upto 50% of your RAM size?

I have always run this at this figure with no problems....am i wrong to do this then?

Dan.