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I’m having a major problem that has been bugging me for a while. I built my system about a year ago and up until 5 months ago I’ve been pretty good about keeping things up to date. Here are my specs:
Athlon 64 3400+ "Clawhammer"
XP-90 w/Vantec Tornado
MSI K8N Neo Platinum
520w OCZ
eVGA 6800GT
512x2 Corsair Value Select
160 Samsung SATA
DVD+/- RW
DVD-Rom
Here’s the problem. I’ve been playing WOW since around Christmas 04 and pretty much have not strayed from playing it. I recently got Battlefield 2. Install the game but did not update my drivers for the 6800 (currently was using the 66.93 version), I had’nt had any problems with the older ones and I like to not fix something that’s not broken. Battlefield 2 would work fine though but every time I went to play it, it would tell me that my drivers were out of date yet the game would run fine. Well the other day I went to play Battlefield 2 and when I double clicked on the icon the splash screen hit and then it just went back to the desktop. So I thought that finally things had caught up to me and that I needed to update my video driver, so I went and downloaded the latest from eVGA (77.77 version). Well Battlefield 2 still would not start up, same thing happened. Then I tried WOW with the new drivers…..well now I was getting intermintent freezing every 20 seconds or so….so the game was basically unplayable. I scrambled to find the old 66.93 driver, reloaded it, and WOW worked fine again but Battlefield 2 still did not work.
So then I thought I should update my BIOS….did that, nothing……same problem. I un-installed Battlefield 2 and reloaded…..problem continued. I’ve also used Ad-aware, Spybot, checked for viruses…everything is cleaned and the problem is still there. So now I’m stuck with this old driver so that I can at least play WOW, but I still can not get Battlefield to work. I really do not want to format but I’m thinking I might have to eventually just because I like to do once a year anyway. Anyone have any suggestions??? I don’t know where to look now…any suggestions would be great….thanks.
EDIT: I also just got a Viewsonic VX924 monitor if that would make a difference or not? I had just wanted to see what Battlefield 2 would look like on it, but have yet to get it to work...so i don't know if this problem had started before then or not.
Athlon 64 3400+ "Clawhammer"
XP-90 w/Vantec Tornado
MSI K8N Neo Platinum
520w OCZ
eVGA 6800GT
512x2 Corsair Value Select
160 Samsung SATA
DVD+/- RW
DVD-Rom
Here’s the problem. I’ve been playing WOW since around Christmas 04 and pretty much have not strayed from playing it. I recently got Battlefield 2. Install the game but did not update my drivers for the 6800 (currently was using the 66.93 version), I had’nt had any problems with the older ones and I like to not fix something that’s not broken. Battlefield 2 would work fine though but every time I went to play it, it would tell me that my drivers were out of date yet the game would run fine. Well the other day I went to play Battlefield 2 and when I double clicked on the icon the splash screen hit and then it just went back to the desktop. So I thought that finally things had caught up to me and that I needed to update my video driver, so I went and downloaded the latest from eVGA (77.77 version). Well Battlefield 2 still would not start up, same thing happened. Then I tried WOW with the new drivers…..well now I was getting intermintent freezing every 20 seconds or so….so the game was basically unplayable. I scrambled to find the old 66.93 driver, reloaded it, and WOW worked fine again but Battlefield 2 still did not work.
So then I thought I should update my BIOS….did that, nothing……same problem. I un-installed Battlefield 2 and reloaded…..problem continued. I’ve also used Ad-aware, Spybot, checked for viruses…everything is cleaned and the problem is still there. So now I’m stuck with this old driver so that I can at least play WOW, but I still can not get Battlefield to work. I really do not want to format but I’m thinking I might have to eventually just because I like to do once a year anyway. Anyone have any suggestions??? I don’t know where to look now…any suggestions would be great….thanks.
EDIT: I also just got a Viewsonic VX924 monitor if that would make a difference or not? I had just wanted to see what Battlefield 2 would look like on it, but have yet to get it to work...so i don't know if this problem had started before then or not.
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