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Unread 15 Nov 2002, 21:06   #1
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Attention: Computer People

Right, I buy a game for my comp (128 megs of Ram), and for some reason the movies showing the developers and producers logos as well as the intro come across in a manner best described as jittery. This happens with every single game.

Its not a 'major' problem but it is seriously annoying me.
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Unread 15 Nov 2002, 21:08   #2
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what are your comps specs?

what are the minimum/recommended specs on the box?
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Unread 15 Nov 2002, 21:09   #3
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could be GFX card

btw we have a tech support forum for a reason
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Unread 15 Nov 2002, 21:14   #4
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I have the feeling its something very simplistic:

GeForce 3
128 RAM
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Unread 15 Nov 2002, 21:25   #5
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got the latest drivers for it ?
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Uh-huh

This problem is happening with 3-4 year old games.
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Unread 15 Nov 2002, 22:17   #7
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I had this problem aeons ago with i believe it was tomb raider 2. The Eidos? logo was jittery. Everything else was fine. Cant for the life of me remember if I fixed it b4 i upgraded
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maybe you havea bad cd drive or havent enabled full hardware graphic acceleration or game cds are crap or need a new comb who knows
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maybe you havea bad cd drive or havent enabled full hardware graphic acceleration or game cds are crap or need a new comb who knows
That was helpful

If anything, it might have something to do with your computer being too new, specifically your graphics card. I am personally unable to play several older games due to the fact that my video card doesn't register as a VESA compliant one.

It might be possible that the older games use certain outdated functions, algorithms or whatever, that your videocard executes in a not 100% compatible way.

If this is the case, you may want to do what many other computer users do: Get yourself a second PC, preferably a second-hand old box, just to play older games normally.
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When this happened for me it was on a new pc but the game had literally only just come out. So i doubt it was that :/

Since ive upgraded to a lot higher spec pc ive never encountered the problem
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the sound card / sound settings might be the cause. I get that on some occasions because often each game needs to have the hardware sound acceleration turned all the way up or down.
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When this happened for me it was on a new pc but the game had literally only just come out. So i doubt it was that :/
According to Erkenbrand, his problem only occurs with games which are 3 or 4 years old. So dunno, heh
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According to Erkenbrand, his problem only occurs with games which are 3 or 4 years old. So dunno, heh
Apoligies for not explaining properly, but its happewning with newer games as well. I can't for the life of me think what it might be.
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tried patches for the games ?
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tried patches for the games ?
I doubt they fix the intro movies in patches, and have yet to see a game that has a fked intro movie.

Dunno what it could be, though. It sounds a bit like a driver problem, or a DirectX problem. Do you have problems playing movies in Windows Media Player?
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Unread 18 Nov 2002, 15:34   #16
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one game springs to mind, Conquest: Frontier Wars

the intro was fked up and jittery for me.

I just turned down the sound hardware acceleration and its now fine.
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Unread 19 Nov 2002, 20:41   #17
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No I've tried turning off hardware accelaration and I have no problems with Media Player.

However I've been informed a couple of other people have been complaining about the combination of Win ME and a Turtle Beach sound card, which I have on this box.
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