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Blacksite on Vista: Me too!
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a_gunslinger
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Oct '07
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2/10 3:35pm
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Blacksite on Vista: Me too!
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Was fine (kind of) on XP Pro, but just upgraded to a highend machine and cant get it to run (patches installed).
Symptoms:
1) launch game, black screen for couple minutes. Eventually ESRB Game Play screen appears. Anothe rminute goes by, the red Unreal logo comes in in stills, about 3 minutes in between each still of the animation. 1o minutes later, still going thru Unreal animation one frame per minute
2) I bail
System:
New Dell XPS 720
Quad Core 6600
4 GB RAM
Nvidia GF 8800 GS (512 RAM).
None of the suggestions in forum have worked thus far. Pretty disgruntled, esp. after I could never get Stranglehold to work right (saves would never hold!)
I have given Midway $100 now - for nothing.
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leafsfan2k6
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2/13 6:47pm
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RE: Blacksite on Vista: Me too!
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If you are running Windows Vista please be sure that everything in Windows Vista is brought up to date through the Windows Update Feature.
Since you have a 512mb video card, its very possible that Windows is handling the memory allocation of this card incorrectly. In Windows Vista, it handles memory differently, and each card acts as a shared memory card, regardless of Turbo Cache, Hypermemory Status. or not. Improper handling can lead to blue screens, crashes and other unstable behavior.
Microsoft has released a technical document and a patch to change the archetecture of this behavior so it stablizes more on higher end video cards with more memory.
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a_gunslinger
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2/13 8:25pm
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RE: Blacksite on Vista: Me too!
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leafsfan2k6 posted:
If you are running Windows Vista please be sure that everything in Windows Vista is brought up to date through the Windows Update Feature.
Since you have a 512mb video card, its very possible that Windows is handling the memory allocation of this card incorrectly. In Windows Vista, it handles memory differently, and each card acts as a shared memory card, regardless of Turbo Cache, Hypermemory Status. or not. Improper handling can lead to blue screens, crashes and other unstable behavior.
Microsoft has released a technical document and a patch to change the archetecture of this behavior so it stablizes more on higher end video cards with more memory.
Thanks leaf. Is that an auto update patch? Im all updated.
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