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AGP vs. PCI installation problem
Name: jwebb Date: November 19, 2005 at 11:23:29 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: 2.6 Ghz - 512 Ram
Comment:
If a game requires and AGP Video Card - and I have a PCI, could that cause the game to crash on installation?
Name: doug_brit Date: November 19, 2005 at 14:47:41 Pacific
Reply:
Only if it didn't meet the requirements or something obscure like that, I'd say its more of an issue on your end myself, whats the game, was it purchased and how do you upkeep your pc?
Windows Xp Pro x64 AMD Sempron 3000+ 1.8ghz 1 Gig Ram pc2700 Nforce 4 Motherboard Radeon X700 256mb Realtek Ac 97 Onboard Audio Thermaltake 430W Power Supply
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Response Number 2
Name: jwebb Date: November 19, 2005 at 15:50:26 Pacific
Reply:
It is MVP Baseball 2004 - It loaded fine on my old machine which was slower and had less RAM . . for some reason on this machine it loads the first disk and locks up after it asks for the second. The only requirement I don't meet is that it asks for a AGP video card, but I didn't think that should make a difference as long as the video card met specs. I am using a GeForce 5500 256 MB video card, it only asks for a NVIDIA GeForce 2 or greater.
Any suggestions?
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Response Number 3
Name: Avun Date: November 20, 2005 at 08:02:21 Pacific
Reply:
Make sure windows is up to date, and that your video/motherboard/hardware drivers are up to date, often times there is an issue with a game that a simple update will fix.
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