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Silent Hill 3 PC Game and Geforce
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neney1
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11. November 2003 @ 07:20 |
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Hi not quite sure if this is the right place to ask or not but I have Silent Hill 3 and it won't let me play the game it say I need a 32VRAM video card. I have a Geforce MX440 and all the updated drivers for this. I am in despair I can't play my game!!!!!! or well if nobody can help I will just have to watch Eastenders tonite instead lol
Janine
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Praetor
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14. November 2003 @ 12:37 |
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Shoey
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15. November 2003 @ 06:32 |
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Well I have Silent Hill III and a GeForce4 MX440 video card and I can play the game just fine. Try installing latest DirectX 9.0b and experiment with different nVidia Detonator driver versions m8.
Shoey :)
Asus K8N nVidia nForce3 Pro 250 GB, Athlon 64 3200+, Hitachi 80 gig SATA 150, Corsair XMS 1 gig PC4000, ATI Radeon Saphire 9600 Pro (256 DDR), Windows XP Pro (64 Bit),Lite-ON SOHD 167T,, Plextor PX-712SA,BenQ 1640.
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Praetor
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15. November 2003 @ 11:30 |
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Detonator 44.03 is a good one to try :-) so is 43.45
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neney1
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15. November 2003 @ 23:42 |
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Shoey Please have a look at which driver you have got there is hope I can play this game yet have you got XP?
Thanks
Janine
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neney1
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16. November 2003 @ 05:36 |
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Also I might sound thick here but is a Geforce4 MX440-8 different to a Geforce4 MX 440 and whats a Denonator driver? and where do I get these drivers.
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Janine
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Praetor
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16. November 2003 @ 21:54 |
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Shoey
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17. November 2003 @ 01:03 |
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Preator is right on the money! Thanks m8 (wipes sleep from eyes)*yawn*. I failed to mention that I'm overclocking my video card through my bios as well. Silent Hill III doesn't run "stable" all the time.
Shoey
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neney1
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17. November 2003 @ 09:49 |
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Thanks Praetor and Shoey for helping me you stars!! I have tried the 52.16 driver and the 44.03 I have just tried and the game doesn't work,I'll try the other two drivers but I think i'll have to face the fact I can't play this game! BOO Ho that or go and buy an Xbox,how do you overclock you video card using bios?
Janine
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Praetor
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17. November 2003 @ 13:41 |
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Quote:
Preator is right on the money!
Hehe thx I wouldnt be me if i wasnt :P
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how do you overclock you video card using bios?
Are you sure you wanna do this? I can walk ya through it but realize that you can permanantly wreck your hardware if your mess up hehe. (Ive done it :P -- for fun of course but still, you'd be surprised how fast the vid card burn up).
If you consider it though... XBOX = what... $150? = GeForceFX5600 :D you can get that card cheaper too depending on where you live :-)
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Shoey
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17. November 2003 @ 20:32 |
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Asus K8N nVidia nForce3 Pro 250 GB, Athlon 64 3200+, Hitachi 80 gig SATA 150, Corsair XMS 1 gig PC4000, ATI Radeon Saphire 9600 Pro (256 DDR), Windows XP Pro (64 Bit),Lite-ON SOHD 167T,, Plextor PX-712SA,BenQ 1640.
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Praetor
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17. November 2003 @ 22:44 |
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Make that a double-moderator endorsement :P Actually now that i think of it, OCing a GF4MX (NV17) isnt so 'dangerous' per se its just that the returns will be minimal considering there are so many hardware limitations on the NV17 chip structure (NV17 = GF4MX, NV25 = GF4Ti). I wrote a little disseration on the differences between MX and Ti here: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/44920
Also, if GFX5600 is outside your budget, I am sure you can get a GF4Ti in the $80-90 range which is more than reasonable for the amount of performance they give :-)
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neney1
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18. November 2003 @ 04:01 |
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I live in England and the new Geforce card is around £130 and I know I think why silent hill won't play its because my graphics card doesn't have programmable vertex/pixel support which is needed and no I don't think i'll be messing in the bios then knowing me I would mess my whole computer up, never mind!!
Janine
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Shoey
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18. November 2003 @ 06:28 |
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neney1
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18. November 2003 @ 06:41 |
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Thanks for the link but I live in ENgland and thats an American site god things are so much cheaper there than here
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Praetor
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18. November 2003 @ 07:55 |
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I would sggest then you try to hunt down a GeForce4.. shouldnt be too hard -- even in England
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av_3000
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19. November 2003 @ 05:00 |
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Hi. I'm having a similar problem to Neney, except mine is this:
When I am trying to run the game, I am getting a message which says "This game requires a video card with a minimum of 32MB VRAM and programmable Vertex/Pixel Shader support. The application will now close."
I have a GeForce 4 460MX with the updated drivers. I have installed the denotaor 5.16 thing but still no luck with it.
Can anyone help me?
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neney1
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19. November 2003 @ 05:05 |
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Hi That's the same message I get and it does my head in!!!!
Janine
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av_3000
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19. November 2003 @ 05:19 |
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Any ideas anyone 'cos it's not making much sense.
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neney1
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19. November 2003 @ 05:43 |
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Well I have look into this and the MX video card does not have programable pixel/shader support,I think it enables the features on faces to be more real like and alot of the new games need this so our graphics card is crap!!!
Janine
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neney1
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19. November 2003 @ 05:51 |
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Well I have just had a quick look and a Geforce4 TI is around £100 plus thats about $169 see everything in England is expensive!!!!!!!
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av_3000
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19. November 2003 @ 08:26 |
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There should still be a way around it. There's no reason why a newish graphic card shouldn't work with a new game, despite the standard of the game. There must be a way to bypass it.
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neney1
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19. November 2003 @ 09:02 |
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Well if you find a way let me know cause I love Silent Hill and I was well looking forward to playing it having done the other two.
Janine
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av_3000
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19. November 2003 @ 10:11 |
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Konami can't be that stupid as to make it so so many people wouldn't be able to play it. If it is so, there's bound to be a patch released for it sooner or later.
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neney1
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19. November 2003 @ 10:16 |
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I hope you are right cause I only got this upgraded to this computer last year and can't really afford a new graphics card yet!!
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