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June 5th, 2007, 09:55 AM
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im having trouble with a game, civilization 4.
i think the problem may be that my AGP gfx card is labelled as being PCI-E in my harware profile.
would anyone know how to change this?
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June 5th, 2007, 02:49 PM
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Have you updated your motherboard's chipset drivers?
What about your video card drivers?
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June 5th, 2007, 03:27 PM
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Which motherboard and gfx card do you have?
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June 5th, 2007, 05:37 PM
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well i have a dell dimension 4600.
its a 2.8 ghz processor, i have 1.25 gigs of ram, and a 6800 gs (agp of course).
is there a program or something i can use to tell me what kind of motherboard it is? | |
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June 5th, 2007, 05:39 PM
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i have updated my gfx driver, direct x, all that.
looking into mobo now | |
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June 6th, 2007, 12:19 AM
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well what kind of trouble are you having with your game first, & what makes you think its related to the card showing up as PCI-E instead of AGP? | |
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June 6th, 2007, 12:39 AM
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Originally Posted by flyguyspy  is there a program or something i can use to tell me what kind of motherboard it is? | Everest Home Edition can tell you that, and quite a bit more. | |
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June 6th, 2007, 11:10 AM
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well, ok, the glitch: about 15 turns into the game, gfx get buggy and it freezes up, and crashes my pc.
i think this could be the reason becuase in a civ 4 faq i was reading, one person claimed that fixing the pci-e/agp problem was what did it for him. the reason being becuase the card can't to 4x or 8x mode.
i updated my chipset, but the card still comes up as pci-e in my hardware profile!
ARG I"D RATHER BUY A NEW FRIGGIN RIG THEN WORK MY ARSE OFF TRYING TO GET THIS WORKING!!!!
but of course thats not a great option... | |
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