PC Game Problem

[BMW POWER]

the other day i bought Star Trek StarFleet Commander 3 and so i installed the game and pressed the play button but all that happened is the game logo appears and after a few minutes i get an error report and the whole thing closes down. after downloading the newest patch off their website and getting the newest drivers for my graphics card i still have the same problem. my PC meets the requirements for the game and i'm using windows xp pro with a voodoo 3 card.
any help would be appreciated
cheers

 

[Shannon]

Did you get a new PC or are you still running the not-so-great computer?

 

[Flerbizky]

Originally posted by BMW POWER
the other day i bought Star Trek StarFleet Commander 3 and so i installed the game and pressed the play button but all that happened is the game logo appears and after a few minutes i get an error report and the whole thing closes down. after downloading the newest patch off their website and getting the newest drivers for my graphics card i still have the same problem. my PC meets the requirements for the game and i'm using windows xp pro with a voodoo 3 card.
any help would be appreciated
cheers

You really really need to get another Gfx card. The GF4's are going fairly cheap these days..

 

[Solid Fro]

It sounds like your video card drivers are crashing. The Voodoo 3 is no longer supported by 3DFX (nVidia), so updating drivers won't help. You can find good deals on GeForce 4 cards now, it's time for a new video card.

 

[Tom M]

If you can't afford a new Vid card (A no name GF2 should cost you about 20-30 dollars max) then there are websites that support the old Voodoo cards with drivers created by talanted fans of 3dfx. Look around a bit and I'm sure you will be able to find some.

 

[BMW POWER]

i decided not to get a new PC so i might get a new graphics card for my current one. i looked around and found a 64Mb XFX Geforce 4MX 440SE card, i dont know much about them so would this be sufficient for my PC as it only costs £34 ($54)
heres the spec of the website:
MEMORY: 64MB DDR
VGA OUT: YES
DVI OUT: NO
TV OUT: YES
CHIPSET: GEFORCE4 MX440
DVI-CRT ADAPTOR: NO
DVD SOFTWARE: NO
CABLE: NO
PACKAGING: RETAIL BOXED
AGP: 4X

 

[ALPHA]

Good enough to last you a while!

 

[Tom M]

Don't get a GF4 MX card unless you have a really really old Video card. The GF4 MX cards are actually only a slight bit faster than the Geforce 2's.

 

[Solid Fro]

Don't get MX cards.

 

[Shannon]

I'll jump on the bandwagon - don't get MX cards.

 

[halfracedrift]

Me too.. Don't get MX
If you're that desperate, try a gefore3 or a Radeon

 

[rjensen11]

Get an ATI Radeon 9000 or something along the lines of that, and make sure it's at LEAST 32MB, pref. 64 or 128...

 

[halfracedrift]

Get an ATI SAPPHIRE RAdeon 9100.. It's 64 mb AND it has TVOUT.. =D it costs like.. 100$ canadian..

 

[rjensen11]

Originally posted by halfracedrift
Get an ATI SAPPHIRE RAdeon 9100.. It's 64 mb AND it has TVOUT.. =D it costs like.. 100$ canadian..

Dude, my 8500 has an S-Vid out for TV's, and it also has dual-monitor, 64MB, and I got it a while ago, over a year ago.

 

[Shannon]

I can now safely say - don't get MX cards. My old computer is a Pentium 4 1.6ghz, 256mb SD Ram and a GeForce 4 MX 440. I installed Splinter Cell and it ran like crap - never have I seen such a bad frame rate!