Age of Mythology: landscape/models are white w/o defintion

[Guest]

After installing Age of Mythology, any landscape and models during the game
are primarily white and featureless. I am running Windows XP, and I tried
all of the general troubleshooting available for display drivers on
Microsoft's support site. My display adapter is an NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000.
I went to NVIDIA's webpage, and they have no driver updates listed for it.
Please help.

 

[Jimmy S.]

Hi John,

This may help: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331147

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John Wrote:
=================
| After installing Age of Mythology, any landscape and models during the game
| are primarily white and featureless. I am running Windows XP, and I tried
| all of the general troubleshooting available for display drivers on
| Microsoft's support site. My display adapter is an NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000.
| I went to NVIDIA's webpage, and they have no driver updates listed for it.
| Please help.

 

[Jimmy S.]

Hi John,

Try the latest 93.71 drivers for your MX 4000 from nVidia:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/93.71_winxp_32_supported.html


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John Wrote:
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| I had already looked at that thread and tried the suggestions there, Jimmy.
| It did not fix the issue I am having. Any other ideas?
|
| Thanks,
| John
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi John,
||
|| This may help: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331147
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
||
|| John Wrote:
|| =================
||| After installing Age of Mythology, any landscape and models during the game
||| are primarily white and featureless. I am running Windows XP, and I tried
||| all of the general troubleshooting available for display drivers on
||| Microsoft's support site. My display adapter is an NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000.
||| I went to NVIDIA's webpage, and they have no driver updates listed for it.
||| Please help.

 

[Guest]

Hi, Jimmy:

That driver worked! Thanks for letting me know about it! Wow, now I can
finally play!

John

 

[Jimmy S.]

Hi John,

Awesome! I'm happy to hear that worked out for you.


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Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

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John Wrote:
=================
| Hi, Jimmy:
|
| That driver worked! Thanks for letting me know about it! Wow, now I can
| finally play!
|
| John
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi John,
||
|| Try the latest 93.71 drivers for your MX 4000 from nVidia:
|| http://www.nvidia.com/object/93.71_winxp_32_supported.html
||
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
||
||
|| John Wrote:
|| =================
||| I had already looked at that thread and tried the suggestions there, Jimmy.
||| It did not fix the issue I am having. Any other ideas?
|||
||| Thanks,
||| John
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi John,
||||
|||| This may help: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331147
||||
|||| --
|||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||
|||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|||| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|||| _________________________________________________________
||||
||||
|||| John Wrote:
|||| =================
||||| After installing Age of Mythology, any landscape and models during the game
||||| are primarily white and featureless. I am running Windows XP, and I tried
||||| all of the general troubleshooting available for display drivers on
||||| Microsoft's support site. My display adapter is an NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000.
||||| I went to NVIDIA's webpage, and they have no driver updates listed for it.
||||| Please help.

 

[Kuulei V]

Hi Jimmy S.;

I just read how you helped John with hi Age of Mythology woes. And I was
hoping you could help me as well. I just bought a copy of AoM but each time I
try to play it shuts down by itself. I downloaded and installed 3 different
versions of updates or patches the latest being 1.10 but nothing fixed my
problem I still can't play a game with out it chutting down. Game time
usually last not more then 20 mins.

 

[Jimmy S.]

Hi Kuulei V,

The following applies to most games in general, and not just to the games that
may be listed in the KB Article refered to in this post.

SYMPTOMS:

When you start or play any one of the games that is listed in the "Applies to" section, you may experience one or more of the
following symptoms:

..The game stops responding.
..The game quits unexpectedly.
..The computer restarts unexpectedly.
..The game encounters an error and needs to close

Additionally, you may receive the following error message after you receive the Gathering Exception Data dialog box:
<Game Name>has encountered a problem and needs to close.

RESOLUTION:

Method 1: Restart your computer by using a clean boot procedure
Method 2: Remove and Reinstall the Game
Method 3: Adjust graphics hardware acceleration
Method 4: Disable AGP Texturing in the DirectX Diagnostic tool
Method 5: Temporarily disable the sound card in Windows
Method 6: Lower sound acceleration
Method 7 : Download and install the most recent version of DirectX
Method 8: Update your video driver
Method 9: Update your sound driver
Method 10: Scan your computer for viruses
Method 11: Remove spyware
Method 12: Install the latest VIA chipset drivers
Method 13: Create a new user account in Windows XP
Method 14: Change the compatibility setting

Detailed instructions and video clips are published at:
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;303032


--
Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
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_________________________________________________________



Kuulei V Wrote:
=================
| Hi Jimmy S.;
|
| I just read how you helped John with hi Age of Mythology woes. And I was
| hoping you could help me as well. I just bought a copy of AoM but each time I
| try to play it shuts down by itself. I downloaded and installed 3 different
| versions of updates or patches the latest being 1.10 but nothing fixed my
| problem I still can't play a game with out it chutting down. Game time
| usually last not more then 20 mins.