You've got two X800? Or is the secondary monitor set to be the primary as well? in Crossfire mode or what?? Also, they both have different refresh rates which could cause problems... AND your sound drivers are WAY old - update them for improved performance.
Plus you've got quite little free space.... Maybe you should try to see if there's anything useless in you HD that you can remove and then defrag.
Only one X800 unfourtunately, one 19" CRT and one 19" LCD (primary). Thanks for the sound driver link, I got the latest Nvidia nForce 4 ultra drivers but when i installed them I got a bsod on startup (before login) something trying to edit royal.sys which apparently is in read-only memory so I had to do a sys restore to just before I installed them. 8/20 gigs free is little for a 20 gig OS only partition?
Well there's still something fishy about your graphics card (btw I had the ATI Radeon X800 XL too, only 256 MB at one point, and I was still using XP)
You should really check your internal settings if anything is messed up by any chance...
I've never seen a case like that where there's a "clone" of the graphics card... And I thought I'd seen them all...
OH! D'OH! Man I'm so blind.....
You DID mention having dual monitors..... Try switching to only one.
I should really get my eyes checked out...
About the clone thing, I had a 9600 Pro previously and it did the exact same thing in XP, the second one had "(Default)" after it's name though.
Tried switching to one monitor and got a couple of steps (literally) furthur before it crashed to desktop. Also, when I first tried playing I had everything on highest and in the short time I played there was no lag at all, I switched it to medium and with both monitors it was still fine and I managed to get a little furthur before crashing but when I switched to one monitor and left the settings on medium it was jerky and slow in firefights all of a sudden.
... Maybe you should consider reinstalling the whole card, it shouldn't be doing that "cloning" thing....
And try doing a Selective Startup (see sticky)
And If it gets "jerky" in firefights then that's usually the CPU, but I have the same CPU as you and I can run it fine so you'll need to see if there's anything that's hogging its resources - so again, I suggest doing that Selective Startup.
How long have you been gaming?Originally Posted by Conscars
As long as I can remember.
Well, in old games sound was a lot bigger performance concern... most games now don't even come with sound quality options because integrated sound cards that can handle games are pretty much standard now.
Caboose, come down you are jumping quickly to conclusions resulting in people to buy expensive equipment like in the other case...which don't cause the problem in the first place.
It doesn't have to be a hardware error...
Alright let's see:
New error: "Initialization failed. Either insufficient system resources were found to run the game, or game data is missing or damaged. etc."Try to run the game without anything in the background that might access those files or have an effect on the game e.g shut down all programs that are not vital to run windows and it's components and run the game."fault module" was given as xlive.dll
Also if you said that you get further with one monitor....try that always. No need for 2 monitors unless you work intensively on your computer. Not really necessary for gaming.
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