Humor Me - Tech Help

[nomdeplume]

Hi.

I'm completely new to the whole world of internet gaming and honestly, I don't know where to begin. I have a laptop and vista which seem both to be a problem the more I read. My laptop is brand new and isn't half bad though perhaps not suited to gaming, I didn't have it in mind when I bought it. My main 'system requirement' problem at the moment seems to be the acquisition of the latest ATI driver, when I go to the website there seem to be endless driver options and as I said, totally new to this! When I log in to create an avatar and click a few options everything goes ... shaky?

So ... any help would be appreciated!

Asha.

[nomdeplume]

... and black. shaky and black.

[Athal]

Ok in the program Entropia.exe right click it and search the option in properties..

run in compatibility with windows xp

And right click your desktop search for your video card


Hope it helps

[Robotek]

Notebooks are a pain for gaming... as you already figured out.

Vista is a pain for everything... as youre already figuring it out.

As I remember corectly.. ati wants to have .net framework installed, before you can install their drivers. Dunno how is with Vista regarding this. But as you already have some working ati drivers running, seems you can skip worries about .net framework.

Also, make sure you uninstall your current ati drivers before attempting to install new ones. Reboot will be reqired after you uninstall them. Dunno how is with Vista regarding this..lol

Good luck,
Robo

[Immortal]

Make sure you are downloading the right driver

http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.HTML

To find out what driver you are using if you are unsure:

[nomdeplume]

Thankyou for your replies.

Athal, changed compat to XP

Robotek, by 'latest ATI driver' I was quoting the site on system requirements, as far as I know I don't have any driver. Apologies for unclear-ness.

Imortal, I am using 'Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family' though being gaming illiterate I have no idea what that means.

[J. Mandrake]

I'm running EU fine on a Toshiba with Vista, and have changed no options. You should be fine, just use windowed mode.

[Athal]

That means that you dont have a shader video card so..

You need an emulator

http://www.3dfxzone.it/dir/tools/3d_analyze/archive/

I use v 2.26

with the following settings:


Click to enlarge

[onyx oZ Zombie]

any pc working on an intel chipset is going to have issues ... not vista related, fyi ... game off your gfx card (ati / nvidia), not your motherboard (in this case, intel)

basically, hardware issue that may or may not be able to be solved via a software solution ... app called 3danalyze is all that comes to mind

[nomdeplume]

It is now doing the whole 3 hr loading process again, though I have no red crosses in my Client Status, only a yellow one regarding my graphics card so fingers crossed. I will let you know how its going in 02:33:51 !