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halo lack of hdware acceleration
Name: lisakibby Date: August 2, 2005 at 21:22:48 Pacific OS: gateway 2000 CPU/Ram: 233 mhz 160 mb
Comment:
have gateway 2000, running on windows98, plus. Got the game halo to play against my brother online 150 miles away from me. my machine says233 mhz 160 mb 8m nvidia riva 128. tried to upgrade through windows update to directx9.do I need to physically attach something to my computer (hardware)? or is this something I can download? I guess I need something like 756 mhz to operate this halo graphics or map? any suggestions? fatal error msg: A PROBLEM OCCURRED INTIALIZING DIRECT3D.HARDWARE ACCELERATION MAYBE DISABLED. PLEASE RUN DXDIAG. (not disabled, running fine) what do i do?Help???????
Name: damasta55r Date: August 2, 2005 at 23:37:29 Pacific
Reply:
Doubt you could run halo on such an old system. Not even sure if its worth upgrading.
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Response Number 2
Name: marky81 Date: August 3, 2005 at 06:20:57 Pacific
Reply:
^^^ Agreed.
If your into games, your going to have to look at getting a new PC. Cheapest is always the ones you build yourself. If you want to go down that road, just ask and we can try to help.
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