Fatal Error Loading Games

[Guest]

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?

 

[Guest]

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

 

[Malke]

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

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

 

[Guest]

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]

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

I wouldn't buy the FX 5200 - that is an old, lame card. It really
depends on what games you want to play and how much money you have to
spend. I'd go to some gaming sites like Gamespot and see what they say
about hardware. Here's a useful link, for instance:
http://www.gamespot.com/tech/index.html

You might want to look for reviews/forums at Toms Hardware, Maximum PC,
etc. I put middle-of-the-road cards in my kids' machines last year.
They are heavy-duty gamers. I gave them Nvidia 6800GT 256MB cards and
they've been able to play everything with them - World of Warcraft,
Doom 3 (not on highest), Serious Sam 2, etc. I don't like Radeons so
can't say anything about them, but I'm sure you can find information at
the review and gaming sites.

Malke

 

[antioch]

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

 

[Guest]

Hi All
I dont know if im in the right place but, i have bought Rome Total War and
it keeps crashing on me!
I have all the right specs for the game.
I have been in touch with the manufacters to no avail, messages i get are
thread stuck in driver q.....
cps falt
motherboad problems. I have looked at these prob all seem ok.
any ideas people??