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December 30th 03, 06:22 AM
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Helpful Advice Needed! FX5600 Runtime Error
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I picked up a XFX 5600 the other day and replaced my 5200, whenever I went to play a game, I got a Runtime Error pointing to the games exe file. I did a bit of research and upgraded my Via drivers-no luck. So I went and lowered my AGP from 4 to 2x in the bios, a fix I read about, and this worked so far. But.... How much is this hampering me? I got 15,676 in Aquamarks, but ranked about 235 for this card against similar setups. Are there any other options other then this? I want to be able to use the full potential of this card, so I need to upgrade my motherboard maybe? Here are my specs, any advice is welcome (other then recommendations about getting a new vidcard, especially ATI!) XP2000+ on a Asus A7V133-C Via Chipset 768mb pc133 Sdram Usual burner-dvd assortment XFX 5600 256mb card--45.23 Dets 300Watt PS 2X80gig Hdd 
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December 30th 03, 08:10 AM
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"Anybody" wrote in message ble.rogers.com... Ok, I picked up a XFX 5600 the other day and replaced my 5200, whenever I went to play a game, I got a Runtime Error pointing to the games exe file. I did a bit of research and upgraded my Via drivers-no luck. So I went and lowered my AGP from 4 to 2x in the bios, a fix I read about, and this worked so far. But.... How much is this hampering me? I got 15,676 in Aquamarks, but ranked about 235 for this card against similar setups. Are there any other options other then this? I want to be able to use the full potential of this card, so I need to upgrade my motherboard maybe? Here are my specs, any advice is welcome (other then recommendations about getting a new vidcard, especially ATI!) XP2000+ on a Asus A7V133-C Via Chipset 768mb pc133 Sdram Usual burner-dvd assortment XFX 5600 256mb card--45.23 Dets 300Watt PS 2X80gig Hdd Just installed Starwars Kotor and got about 1 Minute into it and got the same ****, maybe I will take recomondations from ATI because Nvidia is starting to **** me off with their new ****!!
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December 30th 03, 10:06 AM
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"Anybody" wrote in message
ble.rogers.com... "Anybody" wrote in message ble.rogers.com... Ok, I picked up a XFX 5600 the other day and replaced my 5200, whenever I went to play a game, I got a Runtime Error pointing to the games exe file. I did a bit of research and upgraded my Via drivers-no luck. So I went and lowered my AGP from 4 to 2x in the bios, a fix I read about, and this worked so far. But.... How much is this hampering me? Hardly at all with most games. But the richer a game is in graphical detail the greater the chance that 2X will impede performance. At the moment though, I reckon the SDRAM is the greatest bottleneck in your system. I got 15,676 in Aquamarks, but ranked about That's HORRIBLE. 235 for this card against similar setups. Are there any other options other then this? I want to be able to use the full potential of this card, so I need to upgrade my motherboard maybe? Here are my specs, any advice is welcome (other then recommendations about getting a new vidcard, especially ATI!) Get an nforce2 based motherboard and stick lots of PC3200 DDR RAM in it. XP2000+ on a Asus A7V133-C Via Chipset 768mb pc133 Sdram Usual burner-dvd assortment XFX 5600 256mb card--45.23 Dets 300Watt PS 2X80gig Hdd Just installed Starwars Kotor and got about 1 Minute into it and got the same ****, maybe I will take recomondations from ATI because Nvidia is starting to **** me off with their new ****!! I've heard that after installing windows, installing the nVidia drivers ~before~ the motherboard drivers can cause repetitive errors on some systems. Tony. -- 3GHz P4 (HT enabled) Asus P4C800-E Deluxe PDC20378 IDE/SATA controller ADI AD1985 audio MSI FX5900U-VTD256 (BIOS 4.35.20.22.0) 2x 512MB Kingston PC3500 2x 36.7 SATA WD Raptors 52/32/52 LiteOn CD-Writer 16x Pioneer DVD-120S Enermax 550W PSU Windows XP Pro & Linux Fedora PC-70 Lian Li case w/ side window Hitachi 174SXW B 17" LCD To email me, replace org.nz with net.nz
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December 31st 03, 04:05 AM
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Gonna buy an Asus A7N8X-X with the NF2 chipset tomorrow, think this will be
a good combo? "The Black Wibble" wrote in message ... "Anybody" wrote in message ble.rogers.com... "Anybody" wrote in message ble.rogers.com... Ok, I picked up a XFX 5600 the other day and replaced my 5200, whenever I went to play a game, I got a Runtime Error pointing to the games exe file. I did a bit of research and upgraded my Via drivers-no luck. So I went and lowered my AGP from 4 to 2x in the bios, a fix I read about, and this worked so far. But.... How much is this hampering me? Hardly at all with most games. But the richer a game is in graphical detail the greater the chance that 2X will impede performance. At the moment though, I reckon the SDRAM is the greatest bottleneck in your system. I got 15,676 in Aquamarks, but ranked about That's HORRIBLE. 235 for this card against similar setups. Are there any other options other then this? I want to be able to use the full potential of this card, so I need to upgrade my motherboard maybe? Here are my specs, any advice is welcome (other then recommendations about getting a new vidcard, especially ATI!) Get an nforce2 based motherboard and stick lots of PC3200 DDR RAM in it. XP2000+ on a Asus A7V133-C Via Chipset 768mb pc133 Sdram Usual burner-dvd assortment XFX 5600 256mb card--45.23 Dets 300Watt PS 2X80gig Hdd Just installed Starwars Kotor and got about 1 Minute into it and got the same ****, maybe I will take recomondations from ATI because Nvidia is starting to **** me off with their new ****!! I've heard that after installing windows, installing the nVidia drivers ~before~ the motherboard drivers can cause repetitive errors on some systems. Tony. -- 3GHz P4 (HT enabled) Asus P4C800-E Deluxe PDC20378 IDE/SATA controller ADI AD1985 audio MSI FX5900U-VTD256 (BIOS 4.35.20.22.0) 2x 512MB Kingston PC3500 2x 36.7 SATA WD Raptors 52/32/52 LiteOn CD-Writer 16x Pioneer DVD-120S Enermax 550W PSU Windows XP Pro & Linux Fedora PC-70 Lian Li case w/ side window Hitachi 174SXW B 17" LCD To email me, replace org.nz with net.nz
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December 31st 03, 08:03 AM
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"Anybody" wrote in message
ble.rogers.com... Gonna buy an Asus A7N8X-X with the NF2 chipset tomorrow, think this will be a good combo? With the XFX 5600? No. The A7N8X-X is just too good for it.  Tony. -- 3GHz P4 (HT enabled) Asus P4C800-E Deluxe PDC20378 IDE/SATA controller ADI AD1985 audio MSI FX5900U-VTD256 (BIOS 4.35.20.22.0) 2x 512MB Kingston PC3500 2x 36.7 SATA WD Raptors 52/32/52 LiteOn CD-Writer 16x Pioneer DVD-120S Enermax 550W PSU Windows XP Pro & Linux Fedora PC-70 Lian Li case w/ side window Hitachi 174SXW B 17" LCD To email me, replace org.nz with net.nz
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