i got FFXI for Xmas, and i am rrreeeeeeaaaaallll mad.
I spent 4 hours updating it, and then it told me my graphics card was bad! My comp is brand new! I got it in october, it is a presio comppaq 512 RAM 120 Gig memory, and a 56k modem. I new it had a good gc at the time, but not good enough to run FF11? Come on! I chated with some people on PlayOnline, and some outhers have this problem. it tells me when i try to run FF11, that i have a Hardwhear Tnl error.
I am about to right a letter or e mail to square enix aout this. Any complites any one has will be wanted, as one little letter will not help me purpose! People should be able to play a Online game with not a sharp grapics, and some lag, (not much any way,) if they do not have a brand new graghics card! That what i think! now, i am not to hapey with this whole thing at all. if you have this same problem, or others, let me know, page me or reply this post, as i can include you're complient or comment in my letter.
Thanks, Boomer T
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 Jan 1 2004, 9:01 am
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Jan 1 2004, 9:04 am (Edited on Jan 1 2004, 9:35 am)
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Jon88
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FFXI doesn't really want top of the line. It just wants a fairly good graphics card with hardware transform and lighting. You may have some cheap "integrated" video card that uses your CPU to perform all the video-ish operations. Since you have a presario however, you probably have a good card and FFXI just has some strange bug (you could try updating your video card drivers, too).
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what model Compaq do you have? I bet you have integrated graphics. and that will make 99.9% of games unplayable.
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I have an ati radeon 9000 pro, thats almost thier bottom of the line and it runs fine. Actualy it runs great. Does your computer have a graphics card a chip on the board. And trust me, for FFXI, you wouldnt want it to look crappy, that game has a great site around every corner.
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Xzar, the only thing Boomer T needs to specify to us is his graphics card.
If he is using intergrated graphics, then there is one problem, most games that have problems and run insufficiently are commonly caused by graphics cards not supporting Hardware Transform and Lightning. Boomer T's error is to do with the Hardware Transforming and Lightning, due to him not having a graphics card that supports it, unless he is using the onboards intergrated graphical system. So asking him to state his CPU, HDD, Sound is just posting useless data. We know how much HDD he has, we know how much ram he has, due to him stating them already. He has 512Mb of RAM, and a 120Gb Hard Drive Disk. Anyway, Boomer T, all you need to do is specify which graphics card you have, if you have none then you will need to buy one. --Lee | |
Mellifluous wrote:
Xzar, the only thing Boomer T needs to specify to us is his graphics card. I had an alternative motive, as I was looking at the Compaq site. The specs he gave us tells me he may have a $500 computer, and very property one at that. It may not even have an AGP slot and this is what I want to find out. I know full well that it is his graphic card as computer building and supporting is my job. | |
Scoobert wrote:
I have an ati radeon 9000 pro, thats almost thier bottom of the line and it runs fine. Actualy it runs great. Does your computer have a graphics card a chip on the board. And trust me, for FFXI, you wouldnt want it to look crappy, that game has a great site around every corner. Scoobert, i have a ati radeon 9000 pro too, and they are great cards, for how old they are, they run fast and dont overheat very much. | |
Hey don't hate on intergraded GFX. I have Geforce2 32mb intergraded and I haven't found a game I couldn't run decent yet. Hell, I can run KOTOR at the highest resolution fine.(My monitor doesn't support 800x600 resolution for some reason). I can run Halo fine too. But I think Geforce intergraded is the only good one so if you got like intel or something then your screwed. And chances are you did because presarios are crap. But just buy a new video card and it'll last you a while. I'm not saying go spend $500 on the top of the line one. But you can get one that will last you a couple more years of playing new games for about $100. I recommend Geforce4 Ti4200(not just because it has my favorite number in it ;) ) It's probably the best value on the market right now. I think it's like $100-$130 and it'll last you a while.
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They are a few years out of date, but still work fine. I got mine about a year ago, and it works great.
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Not really, the hard drive size and the ram size tells me he got the *nice one. Unless of coarse he has added to his computer after he bought it. Heck, im surprized you can get a compaq with 512meg ram. Most computers(as in the cheaper price range, $1000 or less) come with only 128megs and if your lucky 256megs, and thats horrible. My 2-3 year old vaio came with 256megs of ram, and a tnt2 graphics card with it(which lasted me a decent while, but it was showing its age).
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Man what are you talkin about? I've never had a damn problem with my Geforce2 MX. Actualy when I tried to play KOTOR the first time it was messed up but I updated the drivers and the game and now it runs fine. Why do you need "perfect" graphics anyways? It doesn't make the game any better except a little sharper to look at. Because pretty much all high and low quality is, is the textures. Low quality textures are just blurry versions of the high quality. I can live with a little blurryness, the game still plays fine.
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I used to have a compter with the specs of 128MB PC2100 ram with a Geforce 2 MX graphics card and a p4 1.6ghz processor, it would take literally 10 minutes to load Half-Life, I got a second computer from an old friend and it was same specs with a Radeon 9000 pro, except it only had 900mhz processing speed and it loaded up Half-Life in seconds, and yes the memory usage was at a minimum since I always close out of all my background programs and both computers keep the same type of background management/startup programs.
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lol im here to defend the intergrated intel video card i got one and it pwnz ^_- ooh leet speak its gotta be good just kidding but anyways my intergrated intel video card works awesome it ran halo and wc3 i must admite the fps wasnt as good on my box that has the g4 ti 4600 but wtf its intergrated came free with the mobo i aint complaining ^_- oh the real point dont flame intel intergrated video hehe oh btw presarios are crap anything compaq makes is crap crappity crappity crap crap crap
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Intel Integrated video is the crappiest crap that was ever created. For it to be half decent, you need tons of RAM, and a high quality, very fast processor. It has lousy FPS, and makes games look ugly, too.
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Thats not so sticky man. A bad graphics card will make the game run slow, the resilution has to be low, and if your playing a FPS, low resilution makes shooting from afar really hard. Plus seeing things like names is really hard. I had a tnt2 and replaced it with a 9000pro and it made a huge diffrence.
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Yes, both had PC2100 and were running on Windows XP Home Edition at the time with all the current updates and video driver updates.
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Sticky_Chronic wrote:
I have Geforce2 32mb intergraded and I haven't found a game I couldn't run decent yet. I know for sure that you can't run Deus Ex: Invisible War using that video card. Because *I* can't run it with my non-integrated GeForce 4 MX. Which got me really mad, as I'd been anticipating playing Invisible War for YEARS. Damn Ion Storm, damn them! | |