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BigEd (1 posts)
Aug-15-01, 07:11 AM (EST) "Starts up to black screen, then freezes.." does anyone else have this problem? I,ve narrowed it down to a conflict with my NVIDIA tnt2 vid card...but thats as far as I can figure it out..has anyone had the same problem and fixed it? please let me know
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Subject Author Message Date ID RE: Starts up to black screen, then... Ches_C Aug-15-01 1 RE: Starts up to black screen, then... enocell Aug-15-01 3 RE: Starts up to black screen, then... douglasjohnson Aug-15-01 2

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Ches_C (1 posts)
Aug-15-01, 08:31 AM (EST) 1. "RE: Starts up to black screen, then freezes.." I have a 32 mb nVidia TNT2 M64 Pro card and have no problems other than low frame rates (6 - 15) if I select graphics above 800 x 600. I downloaded the updated 12.41 driver from www.nvidia.com before installing MSTS. I have adjusted DirectX 8.0 Sound Debug Output Level to "Less". I also kill all other applications running in the background before running MSTS. Dell XPST Pentium III
750 Mhz.
384 Meg RAM
Windows 98 SEAfter all that tweaking, I've have come to the conclusion that I need a new video card if I want to improve my frame rates on MSTS.Good luck! Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
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Aug-15-01, 02:10 PM (EST) 3. "RE: Starts up to black screen, then freezes.." >I have a 32 mb nVidia TNT2 M64 Pro card and have no problems other than low frame rates (6 - 15) if I select graphics above 800 x 600.Well, I had today steady 0 fps! usually it's around 1-18, but let's see what happens when I get new videocard. I think that 800MHz machine should do better, but Ati Rage128 is too slow.That problem may be caused by too big resolution for the monitor. I set the res. to 1280x1024 and got black screen.Is there a shortcut key to "exit activity"? (other than reset button)Enocell Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
douglasjohnson (3 posts)
Aug-15-01, 01:34 PM (EST) 2. "RE: Starts up to black screen, then freezes.." I have a Diamond viper 770 which is based on the Nvidia TNT2 chipset. When I loaded MSTS it did the same as you are reporting. MY fix was to download the latest drivers from Nvidia rather then Diamond and all worked well.regardsDoug Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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