Fully loaded, then error message? Help please :)

[Ohtarn]

Vanta/Vanta LT 2.9.5.8 is the version I\'m using at the moment. It\'s a real pain because I really want to play the game!

[Karyuu]

Seems to be a rather low-end card, which could be the issue in itself. There is a 7.1.8.4 version of the drivers, however, as far as I\'ve checked.

[DaveG]

Originally posted by Moocha
Also please note that a Vanta-class card is well under the minimim system requirements for the game, as it will have 8, 16, or at most 32 MB of video RAM and is only AGP 1x or 2x. In cases like these the card will have to resort to using AGP for fetching a lot of textures from the main system RAM, so you better have at least 512 or 768 MB of system RAM and a stable AGP controller, and additionally you will have to make sure that the AGP aperture setting in your BIOS configuration is set to at least 128 MB, or a quarter of your system RAM, whichever is lowest.
Even if you get it to run, you will experience poor performance.

Originally posted by DaveG
Video RAM isn\'t always the culprit.  I have a Mobile Radeon with only 16MB but I can run the game more or less fine.  The speed of the GPU and CPU are important.  It\'s just that usually poor speed and poor RAM coincide.

Ewwwww...  Ok, I looked at the stats for this on NVidia\'s page... not a chance in hell.  The RAM has nothing to do with it.  The thing is slow as molasses.  \"The speed of the GPU and CPU are important.\"  Your GPU (chip on the video card) was not designed to play 3D games!  It probably can\'t even show textures at all.  You simply cannot play with that hardware, sorry.  Please read the system requirements which you miss by leaps and bounds.

Wow... I really should\'ve looked into that more closely, and not assumed you would have.  I didn\'t realize that anything came with such a crappy card nowadays.  Even the cheap junk can do passable 3D.  That card is useless for this.

[Ohtarn]

Damn, I will have to look into getting a new one. That\'s so dodgy though, can\'t believe they sold me a new computer with such a crappy video card! Thanks for all your help and stuff guys (if I\'d been able to pick up on the video card crappiness in the first place, it would have been okay. As I said, I\'m useless at these things.).

Much love!

[Ecolem]

yeah you do know that those stores like Dick Smith sell \'cheap\' computers but you notice how it only says \"A massive 128mb video card\". That could mean anything, so you gota watch out for those bumbers

[Uyaem]

If it\'s in fact a brand new computer, I\'d slap the vendor a bit - the Vanta\'s chipset came out 6 years ago, this smells like scam.

However, I did play PlaneShift already with an nVidia TNT2 card, which is even older. Might be that 2 years ago, PS wasn\'t that demanding yet.

[DaveG]

That card looks crappier than an old good card.