LOTR Return of the King graphics problems

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"ShadowMeGa" <shadowmg@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I just installed this game (LOTR: Return of the King) on my computer.
> At first it ran fine then after a while it would lock up, then
> suddenly most of the textures would disappear, replaced with colours
> lines etc, avatars (characters) would phase in and out, and it would
> lock up every few second (and eventually have to hit the reset
> button). My computer is a Dell Dimension 4100 P3 ~p933Mhz, GeForce
> 5200, 256MB RAM, tri OS (WinXP SP2, Win2k SP4, FC2). The error occurs
> ONLY in WinXP, Windows 2000 run the game perfectly(relatively) fine. I
> did driver update etc as well. After successfully making it out of the
> game after one of its crashes in WinXP, I went to dxdiag and ran some
> tests, and the Direct3d Texture has messed up textures UNTIL I turned
> of AGP acceleration, I thought maybe this was the problem...but after
> reboot, disable AGP and retry the game, it still did the same crash.
> Does anybody have any idea what the problem would be? Since it runs
> fine on win2k I would think its a problem with my winXP installation.
> I just find it annoying that i'll hav eto switch Operating Systems
> everytime I want to play a single game (I use WinXP primarily).
>
> Thanks for any help (first time for me posting into groups stuff)
>
> Will Porter


Sounds like you know what you are talking about. But, let's do a few
relatively obvious 'game' defect things...

Uninstall the game

Run defrag

Run scandisk

Turn off running applications -- Virus Scan, etc.

Reinstall the game

I'm betting that you simply had a bad initial install.

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"Melketh" <abcdef@ghijk.com> wrote in message news:<ZaidneeN8OE8r6HfRVn-hQ@comcast.com>...
> "ShadowMeGa" <shadowmg@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:5a75cc2b.0503181656.2b94ce24@posting.google.com...
> > Hello,
> >
> > I just installed this game (LOTR: Return of the King) on my computer.
> > At first it ran fine then after a while it would lock up, then
> > suddenly most of the textures would disappear, replaced with colours
> > lines etc, avatars (characters) would phase in and out, and it would
> > lock up every few second (and eventually have to hit the reset
> > button). My computer is a Dell Dimension 4100 P3 ~p933Mhz, GeForce
> > 5200, 256MB RAM, tri OS (WinXP SP2, Win2k SP4, FC2). The error occurs
> > ONLY in WinXP, Windows 2000 run the game perfectly(relatively) fine. I
> > did driver update etc as well. After successfully making it out of the
> > game after one of its crashes in WinXP, I went to dxdiag and ran some
> > tests, and the Direct3d Texture has messed up textures UNTIL I turned
> > of AGP acceleration, I thought maybe this was the problem...but after
> > reboot, disable AGP and retry the game, it still did the same crash.
> > Does anybody have any idea what the problem would be? Since it runs
> > fine on win2k I would think its a problem with my winXP installation.
> > I just find it annoying that i'll hav eto switch Operating Systems
> > everytime I want to play a single game (I use WinXP primarily).
> >
> > Thanks for any help (first time for me posting into groups stuff)
> >
> > Will Porter
>
> did you install it in XP too, or are you just running it from the 2k install
> directory? If so, try installing it in XP as well.
>
> Also, probably not related, but I would recommend you double your system
> RAM.

Both run from the winXP install. However I just discovered after a
defrag, before reinstall LOTR i decided to play WC3...after about an
hour during one of the between mission talks, the computer
lagged...froze for 3 seconds, and the graphical glitch appeared in
that game as well, so I'm thinking it might be winXP that has the
problem in it. Getting more RAM would be good...although I dunno if
that'll fix the problem...I might just switch back to using win2K
mostly, cause I only went to winXP to use the movie maker for a short
while, and the "look".