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arthurh   01-18-2003 at 01:50:43 PM

I hope that someone can help me. I'm trying to play Real Deals Slots Vol 2 on my 500mhz pIII tabour 440bx 512 ram radeon 9000 pro vid sound blaster live value and it will lock up my cpu after lpaying for awhile. The intro graphics are jerky as well as sound. The mfg of game said it had to be my sound card because it doesn't support directx8.1 Any suggestions?
Thanking you n advance
Art

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Esso   01-19-2003 at 12:48:43 AM
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i might guess it's a video problem, either you vid. drivers need to be updated or just throw your card out. The radeon 9000 is inherently unstable. If you revise some of the vga charts at tom's, you'll notice that the 9000 couldn't complete benchmarking because it would always crash.

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arthurh   01-19-2003 at 04:41:42 PM
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Thanks for the info. I just bought this board at best buy on sale. Reckon now I know why they were on sale. I'll try going to their site for new drivers first and see if that helps.

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Esso   01-19-2003 at 06:36:11 PM
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word on the street says the catalyst3 solved a lot of problems. Give those a try, gl.

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arthurh   01-20-2003 at 02:37:41 PM
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Esso
what is catalyst3? where can i access it?
Thanking you in advance,
Art

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WingDing   01-20-2003 at 04:08:25 PM
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arthurh   01-20-2003 at 06:47:14 PM
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New info on my game. I reinstalled my sound blaster live value, and no my comp doesn't lock up! And as a bonus, my comp respondes faster. However, when i first start up the game, there is a intro(as with all my games), and the graphics are terrible. Its like looking at a slide show. Once the game is loaded, the graphics are great, and there are no further problems. At least so far there isn't. Any idea on the start up graphics problem? Oh yea, it only happens with this game.
Thanking you in advance
Art

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