re: Alternative S O L U T I O N
Tuesday, March 16, 2004 at 2:11 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Brent Roberts
(1 messages posted)
I bought Call of Duty the other day, Installed it and this lame Error popped up
(I trust you all know the one) So I decided to send an E-mail to Activisions Tech
Support center, their Bot replied me a message and told me to go to this Error Postings
Answer page, so I did it's URL is:
https://activision.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/activision.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=11672&p_created=1067901817&p_sid=d4QOes6h&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PWRmbHQmcF9ncmlkc29ydD0mcF9yb3dfY250PTQzMiZwX3NlYXJjaF90ZXh0PUNhbGwgb2YgRHV0eSZwX3NlYXJjaF90eXBlPXNlYXJjaF9ubCZwX3Byb2RfbHZsMT0mcF9wcm9kX2x2bDI9JnBfcGFnZT01&p_li=
So I went there, found that above URL and read the Answer, so I did what it told
me to do, I updated my Graphics Card Driver (Geforce4 MX440 with AGP8x) at this URL:
http://download1.nvidia.com/Windows/56.64/56.64_winxp2k_english.exe
Installed it, and then I had an ipifini, I believe the Error is due to Direct X 9.0b
incompatibility with Geforce Graphics Cards that where not made when Version 9.0b
was made, so I downgraded my Direct X to Version 9.0 and ran the game set my Screen
Resolution to 800 x 600 as instructed to do in the Activision Answer and started
it up, and all's Sweet.
I hope my above explanation helps ANYONE out, if not drop me an E-Mail at: Brentis87@Hotmail.com
or add that E-mail to your MSN Messenger List or if you have AOL add WARRIORofSA.
Later.
On Sunday, February 29, 2004 at 10:03 am, Maxxtazy wrote:
>Unfortunately I have to draw my words back and tell you that this did not solve
my
>problems completely. Although the game does not crash that much anymore, it still
>crasches. :/ And AGP 2x didnt help... !"¤^*"#¤%&/&/#!&"#¤. Gonna rip my head off
>now, for sure...
>
>
>On Sunday, February 29, 2004 at 9:18 am, Maxxtazy wrote:
>>I have a possible solutions for this problem. This is the case:
>>
>>I have been playing Call of Duty since last December and everything was fine until
>>about a month ago when I started to get these C++ Runtime Errors out of the blue.
>>After just seconds or sometimes a few minutes of playing the game first got unplayably
>>sticky, then began the sound loops and finally the game crashed glamourously with
>>this error.
>>
>>I have read a number of threads concerning the issue and trust me, I have tried
>it
>>all, including punching myself in the face several times. No luck. Then I read
about
>>this AGP speed solution and decided to try it. Actually I did not change the AGP
>>speed (I kept it in 4x) but just turned the AGP Fast Write off and VOILA, that
did
>>the trick.
>>
>>At least after an intensive 30 minute bad-ass testing Call of Duty rolls nice n
>smooth.
>>AND with ALL the details set to maximum. CoD has never looked this nice and has
>never
>>rolled this smooth before.
>>
>>I also recommend to use manufacturers drivers instead of the ones from chipset
provider:
>>guaranteed compatability.
>>
>>I hope this is helpful for someone else too.
>>
>>My system configuration:
>>WinXP Pro,
>>AMD Athlon TB 1400MHz,
>>512 MB DDR-RAM,
>>Elsa Gladiac 920 GeForce3 64MB,
>>Epox 8K7A+.
>>
>>
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