Stupid, stupid, stupid!!! SOB!!
Here a story of what NOT to do:
I have been waiting impatiently for Ultima IX Ascension to be released in Denmark. As you might know this game was originally released in the States an in some European countries (Germany I think), back in december last year. But before it reached the shelves in DK, Origin pulled it back due to a staggering amount of D3D problems. Anyway after development of several patches, it was finally released in Denmark (ver. 1.18f) yesterday. I had of course been haunting my local game-pusher for months plaguing them (in fact begging them) to push for a release.
When I saw the game one shelf yesterday, I imediatly bought it and ran all the way home (tears running down my face, shouting "I have it").
Unfortunatly some ancient curse laid upon my family name eons ago set in, when I installed the game and ran it the first time. IT CRASHED IN HORROR!!! Some error in the Directx DDhelper I think. Having tried several different driver installs and read the various readme text files to no avail, I did a really STUPID thing.
I went down to my local hardware-pusher and bought a Asus AGP-V3800Magic TNT2 M64 16Mb graphics adapter. Big mistake! (I can already hear the cries: Burn the heretic!!!).
My joy would take no end when I installed the card and was able to play this great game by Origin. Having run the game at 640*480 on my G200, I wanted to see if my new card would perform better at higher resolutions and color depth. The dissapointment was overwhelming as I quickly discovered that my new card slowed to a slump when running in 32bit color. The graphics in D3D was more jerky than a 1000 eppeleptics (hope I spelled it right) having a simultanious fit. Damnit it was slow!
After banging my head hard against my monitor for being such a dumb-ass I deceided to return the card and get the only real upgrade from a G200. The great and omnious G400!!! (bowing head in humble respect, begging forgiveness of the Gods of the big M. As it wasn't in stock I will have to wait a few days to get it...
End of story!
Regards,
Jake
Here a story of what NOT to do:
I have been waiting impatiently for Ultima IX Ascension to be released in Denmark. As you might know this game was originally released in the States an in some European countries (Germany I think), back in december last year. But before it reached the shelves in DK, Origin pulled it back due to a staggering amount of D3D problems. Anyway after development of several patches, it was finally released in Denmark (ver. 1.18f) yesterday. I had of course been haunting my local game-pusher for months plaguing them (in fact begging them) to push for a release.
When I saw the game one shelf yesterday, I imediatly bought it and ran all the way home (tears running down my face, shouting "I have it").
Unfortunatly some ancient curse laid upon my family name eons ago set in, when I installed the game and ran it the first time. IT CRASHED IN HORROR!!! Some error in the Directx DDhelper I think. Having tried several different driver installs and read the various readme text files to no avail, I did a really STUPID thing.
I went down to my local hardware-pusher and bought a Asus AGP-V3800Magic TNT2 M64 16Mb graphics adapter. Big mistake! (I can already hear the cries: Burn the heretic!!!).
My joy would take no end when I installed the card and was able to play this great game by Origin. Having run the game at 640*480 on my G200, I wanted to see if my new card would perform better at higher resolutions and color depth. The dissapointment was overwhelming as I quickly discovered that my new card slowed to a slump when running in 32bit color. The graphics in D3D was more jerky than a 1000 eppeleptics (hope I spelled it right) having a simultanious fit. Damnit it was slow!
After banging my head hard against my monitor for being such a dumb-ass I deceided to return the card and get the only real upgrade from a G200. The great and omnious G400!!! (bowing head in humble respect, begging forgiveness of the Gods of the big M. As it wasn't in stock I will have to wait a few days to get it...
End of story!
Regards,
Jake
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