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Subject: Age Of Empires 3

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Name: Louisc
Date: April 12, 2007 at 13:19:04 Pacific
Subject: Age Of Empires 3
OS: Win XP
CPU/Ram: 2.4 Celeron 1 Gig Ram

Comment:

Hi all I have a FX 5500 256M card when i start the game all i get is a blank screen with sound. I have installed Patch v1.07
Plz Help

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Response Number 1

Name: Dark Sky
Date: April 13, 2007 at 00:28:01 Pacific
Subject: Age Of Empires 3

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Your Celeron and FX5500 wont quite run AOE3 well anyway. I have 5700XT (lend it to my friend) but havent try the game on it, i'm not sure that 5500 was supported. Anyway, have your tried updating your driver?
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Response Number 2

Name: Louisc
Date: April 13, 2007 at 03:14:44 Pacific
Subject: Age Of Empires 3

Reply: (edit)

Tried to update driver its up to date. Looked on internet seems to work on the game for other users
Thx

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Response Number 3

Name: Dark Sky
Date: April 18, 2007 at 00:08:39 Pacific
Subject: Age Of Empires 3

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Do you any Coolbits forceware to overclock? if you do then lower your clockspeed to the default value. Try to put both Antialiasing and Anisotrophy to off.
Also check the type of interface whether its PCI or AGP mode. If its PCI mode but you're using AGP card, update your motherboard driver to the latest version.
Check also in dxdiag
"START->RUN->dxdiag"
whether your FX5500 card was enabled with all options.
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Response Number 4

Name: Dark Sky
Date: April 18, 2007 at 00:13:57 Pacific
Subject: Age Of Empires 3

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Oh another one, if you dont have Coolbits forceware you can get one from here
http://downloads.guru3d.com/downloa...
and force the monitor refresh rate on all mode to 60 or 75Hz.
There can be a possibilities where the refresh rate of the game exceeds what your monitor can handle. Happens to me with XIII game before.
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Response Number 5

Name: Louisc
Date: April 18, 2007 at 06:36:53 Pacific
Subject: Age Of Empires 3

Reply: (edit)

Updated motherboard driver.
Checked dxdiag all options enabled.
Downloaded and installed coolbits.
Went to nvidia control panel refresh rate of monitor on 60 tried all higher settings blank screen then reverts back to 60 Hz.
Dont know where to set Antialiasing and Anisotrophy
Never tried overclocking not in computer career little bit i know self taught with trial and lots of error.
Seems best thing to do might be to upgrade system.
Thanks a lot

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