NightHawk Posted January 31, 2004 Report Posted January 31, 2004 are your chipset drivers up to date?
Mr Ekted Posted January 31, 2004 Report Posted January 31, 2004 One of the differences between SS/Cont and all the aforementioned games is that SS/Cont uses DirectDraw, and the rest use Direct3D. Dunno how significant that is. Have you run all the tests in dxdiag? http://home.maine.rr.com/user/ekted/pics/ssgc.jpg http://www.againsttcpa.com/images/AgainstTCPA-Log01Small.gif
Fluffy White Bunny Posted January 31, 2004 Report Posted January 31, 2004 well hmm, dunno why it takes up 100% of a 1.2 ghz cpu =\
Jericho24. Posted January 31, 2004 Author Report Posted January 31, 2004 chipset drivers? all dxdiag tests are fine -
★ Dav Posted January 31, 2004 Report Posted January 31, 2004 have you looked in device manager for any drivers that are not working, no matter if they are relivent or not? SSCC Desert Storm OwnerSSforum Admin
★ candygirl Posted January 31, 2004 Report Posted January 31, 2004 Humm what do you have as a PC. I have a Dell and it did the same thing all i did was upload a patch from microsft and it fixed it. SS would show up all black but all my other games worked ok. SFSS Forum adminOwner and sysop of SSCC Star Wars Empirehttp://sfss.org/images/sflit.jpgCandygirl QUOTE(AceSpades Who ever keeps quoting me needs to stop. Otherwise I'm gonna get my friend Mr. Stabby out.QUOTE(Courage is resistance to fear and mastery of fear-not absence of fear.-Mark Twain
Bargeld Posted January 31, 2004 Report Posted January 31, 2004 http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp Sysop - SSCX Alpha West SVS
Jericho24. Posted February 1, 2004 Author Report Posted February 1, 2004 Asus A7V8X motherboardAthlon XP 3200+Geforce FX 5950 ultra 256mb1GB DDR400 RAMWindows XP Pro SP1Directx 9.0b -
Jericho24. Posted February 4, 2004 Author Report Posted February 4, 2004 ok it seems Continuum is making my CPU overheat, but nothing else is.. any ideas why? -
Mr Ekted Posted February 4, 2004 Report Posted February 4, 2004 Are you using software emulation? Try using 8-bit gfx if you current have it set to something higher. Try using a lower resolution. Bring up task manager, click on Performance tab, and go full screen in Cont for a minute. Then alt-tab back to task manager and see how high the peaks are. Try the same thing in windowed mode. http://home.maine.rr.com/user/ekted/pics/ssgc.jpg http://www.againsttcpa.com/images/AgainstTCPA-Log01Small.gif
Jericho24. Posted February 4, 2004 Author Report Posted February 4, 2004 In 2048x1536 8bit my cpu peaks at around 40-60% CPU temperature is in excess of 90degrees Celcius (194F) yet everything is fine until i play continuum EDIT: Just had house fan pointed in the case for 5 min and its dropped to 60C (140F) -
Jericho24. Posted February 4, 2004 Author Report Posted February 4, 2004 Ok, i found a temp fix... COMPUTER IN REFRIGERATOR. GG next time i kick the -*BAD WORD*-ing thing out the window -
Fluffy White Bunny Posted February 4, 2004 Report Posted February 4, 2004 There might be a problem with the heatsink or something.
Jericho24. Posted February 4, 2004 Author Report Posted February 4, 2004 i checked the heatsink and fan several times, all looks fine -
Trained Posted February 4, 2004 Report Posted February 4, 2004 Buy a new computer.. or get one rebuilt -TrainedWe’ve created the greatest collection of shared knowledge in history. Help protect Wikipedia. Donate now: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Support_Wikipedia/en Mom> nothing worse than. "Killed by Mom" popping up Purge is teh bestest person in teh interwebs
Jericho24. Posted February 4, 2004 Author Report Posted February 4, 2004 i just built this 1 new... -
Trained Posted February 4, 2004 Report Posted February 4, 2004 Build another -TrainedWe’ve created the greatest collection of shared knowledge in history. Help protect Wikipedia. Donate now: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Support_Wikipedia/en Mom> nothing worse than. "Killed by Mom" popping up Purge is teh bestest person in teh interwebs
Mr Ekted Posted February 4, 2004 Report Posted February 4, 2004 Can you monitor the heat while playing Cont? 90C is within the operating limit for non milspec or specialized chips. http://home.maine.rr.com/user/ekted/pics/ssgc.jpg http://www.againsttcpa.com/images/AgainstTCPA-Log01Small.gif
Jericho24. Posted February 4, 2004 Author Report Posted February 4, 2004 ok problem fixed, there was a screw jammed in the heatsink. Thanks to everyone that offered help, i appreciate it. -
Mr Ekted Posted February 5, 2004 Report Posted February 5, 2004 Meaning it wasn't fastened down properly? http://home.maine.rr.com/user/ekted/pics/ssgc.jpg http://www.againsttcpa.com/images/AgainstTCPA-Log01Small.gif
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