Re: Fatal Error Loading Games

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Hello Clint
Further to Malke's observations and advice etc, also try
microsoft.public.games - bit closer to home.
If you do, start off by giving your computer's full specs, with as much
detail as possible, together with game/s you want to play. It may help to
get more suggestions.
Your Mobo with the SIS chipset(must be nearly 3 yrs old by now)is not
PCI-express, and I assume you have a P4 478 pin (Prescott ?) or similar.
It may well be suggested you need to get a new Mobo as well.
As to your two GPU's, if it will go on your Mobo, and I have no reason that
it should not, go for the Sapphire/Gigabyte/Ati Radeon 9800XT or PRO, all
AGP.
Some say it was the best at its time. I had one (Pro 256) for FS2002, and
it ran that to its max. fps. In the UK, the XT(256Mb) is from £150.
The Pro, which are not easy to track down, are 128Mb £60-100 & 256Mb, which
a few months ago was near impossible to find.
Good luck with your upgrade.
Rgds
Antioch


"Clint CPR" <ClintCPR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4CF51289-A86F-48A2-B655-073E9342FD29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cheers Malke, I have looked at a couple of video cards, one was the
Leadtek Winfast nVidia Geforce FX 5200 128MB DDR AGP-8X TV-Out Card
the other is 256Mb ATi Radeon 9550, can you recommend any others? My
mother
board is new its Asus P4S800-MX SE
Cheers Clint

"Malke" wrote:

Clint CPR wrote:

not sure if this helps but this is some info on the games
minimum requirements, and my system.
- 3D Hardware Accelerator Card Required - 100% DirectX(R) 9.0c
compatible 64 MB Hardware
Accelerator video card and the latest drivers
- Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 2000/XP
- Pentium(R) 4 1.4GHz or AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+
- 256 MB RAM (512 MB RAM recommended)
- DirectX(R) 9.0c (included)
- 100% DirectX(R) 9.0c compatible 16-bit sound card and latest
drivers. - 100% Windows(R) 2000/XP compatible mouse, keyboard and
latest drivers - 4 GB of uncompressed free hard disk space (plus 600MB
for Windows(R) 2000/XP swap file)
- 8x Speed CD-ROM or 2x Speed DVD-ROM drive.

My DVD Drive is DVDRW IDE 16X
My Mem RAM is 768 MB

"Clint CPR" wrote:

I'm trying to load a game ,after installation I get a fatal
error"video card or driver dosent support Alpha Blending" can anyone
help?I have installed DirectX and tested all is ok.My video card is a
SiS 661FX, the game im trying to load is Call of Dutie 2. Please can
anyone help?


You have onboard graphics. This graphics chip is not capable of running
Call of Duty 2, which is a graphically-intense game. If you have a
desktop that supports it, buy a good AGP (or PCI-e if you've got the
slot) video card. If you are trying to run the game on a laptop, forget
about it.

Malke
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