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Solve : I cant get my black@White 2 game to play? |
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Answer» OK the deal is this. I had my dad pick up the game Black&White 2 a COUPLE of months back. Thats all good except the game calls for 512mb of ram and my computer has 512 but is only letting the game access like 483 mb so the game wont play. I know that the quick thing to do is buy a new memory stick for the computer. except for the fact that I dont have that type of money and my dads a tight wad. But is there any way that I can free up all 512 mb of ram or is it possible to just save the game straight to the hard drive and if so how do I do this.So some of your RAM is being used for an onboard video adapter rather than a separate card. What are the system requirement listed on the game case or box? OK the deal is this. I had my dad pick up the game Black&White 2 a couple of months back. Thats all good except the game calls for 512mb of ram and my computer has 512 [highlight]but is only letting the game access like 483 mb [/highlight]so the game wont play. I know that the quick thing to do is buy a new memory stick for the computer. except for the fact that I dont have that type of money and my dads a tight wad. But is there any way that I can free up all 512 mb of ram or is it possible to just save the game straight to the hard drive and if so how do I do this. So what's with that?The operating system will be using memory as well. When they say "Minimum System Requirements" on game boxes, they lie. If you want to know the actual minimum requirements I would suggest checking the forum for that game or the company that made it. The commuinity will usually know how well youe system will run it, or in your case wther it will run it at all.Where did you get the information that the game is only able to access some of your memory? Task manager (control + alt + delete) can tell you the amount of RAM you have free for programs. DirectX Diag (start > run > dxdiag) on the other hand tells you the total amount of RAM detected by the computer, regardless of its current usage. What do both of those tools report your memory usage as? More information on your graphics card; is it onboard?Problem: Your graphics card. Your Geforce 4 graphics card is not supported by this game. This is why the game does not start up. If u had insufficient RAM, the game would run, but not well. If u wish to play new games like "Black and White 2" u will have up upgrade ur PC. You wouldnt have been able to play the game with a Geforce 4, even if it was supported, because the card is just too weak and old. *Note, u should increase the ammount of Virtual-Memory that ur PC can access, from the system properties.I looked at the games diagnostics CHART and it says that my system has 448.5mb memory when the game requires 512mb but my computer has 512mb. The diagnostics says that my graphics card is questionable but will run the game. But ether way I need to upgrade my graphics card and my memory card. I'M looking into geting a GeForce 6800 Xtreme video card or a GeForce 6200LE Turbo Cache or a GeForce FX5500. Also I'm needing to get a new memory card so does any one have any Ideas for a cheap but reliable memory card and how much memory the cards have on them. Oh and if anybody can tell me anything about the video cards that I'm looking into that would be very helpfull. ThanksHow old is your machine? Do you have agp slots or only pci? I run a fx5200 w/256 onboard memory because it was about the best card I could FIND with pci interface. The 2.0 pixel shader has gotten me through most new games without a hitch, as long as I play on low res. (A few more pixels is not worth $300+ to me, but hey, to each his own.) You can get this card for ~$45 if you look at the right places. I couldn't find a 5500 pci with 256 onboard, only 128 (or MAYBE I just didn't look hard enough). Of course, if you have agp slots you could do a lot better. I'm sure I'll get blasted for this post by some of the other gamers, but you said your dad's a tightwad, so I'm goin cheap here. I ran B&W2 on the 5200 just fine, but I have more ram. Just my 2 cents. P4 2.8G 1.5G DDR XFX Geforce 5200 |
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