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    CoD WaW problems...

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by mds2150, Dec 31, 2008.

  1. mds2150

    mds2150 Newbie

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    I have an HP pavilion dv8300 cto notebook running XP (32 bit) with 2 gigs ram and a geforce go 7600 512 mb card and am having alot of problems running World at War. It ran for a while and then stopped 1/2 way through. I tried contacting activision and they just told me to find a third party driver (I have the most recent from HP, which was released May of 2006 aka garbage now). I tried to go to laptopvideo2go.com as recommended in many threads, but am really unsure of how to use the whole thing, its a little overwhelming for a novice like myself. Can anyone give me some explicit advice so I can get this game running? I understand it may not be completley compatible with HP, but thats ok as long as my game runs and I can use the PC regularly.

    ps the driver I have as listed on the HP website is 8.4.5.4 A, though that doesnt seem to correspond to any version released by nvidia
     
    mds2150, Dec 31, 2008
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  2. Red_Dragon

    Red_Dragon Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Did you go to Nvidia's official website and download the drivers? You can get it from them now :D
     
    Red_Dragon, Dec 31, 2008
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    xTank Jones16x PC Elitist

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    This should help you understand how to install the drivers. The drivers I recommend you try are the newest ones "181.00, 180.84" etc.
     
    xTank Jones16x, Jan 1, 2009
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  4. mds2150

    mds2150 Newbie

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    Geforce Release 179.28 says that it only supports the 8m and 9m series cards, will it work for mine, a 7 series?
     
    mds2150, Jan 1, 2009
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    No. You have to use 7 Series drivers for a 7 Series. ;)


    Although, on nvidia's site, there are no drivers for the 7600M. Under the 7 Series Notebook, only the 7900, 7800, and 7950 are there. And you cannot use the desktop 7 series drivers.

    So, im assuming there are no new drivers for the card then...

    When you said it stopped 1/2 way thru, what actually happened?
     
    ahl395, Jan 1, 2009
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  6. SCE_Sobek

    SCE_Sobek Notebook Evangelist

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    he can get drivers from laptopvideo2go.com
     
    SCE_Sobek, Jan 1, 2009
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  7. mds2150

    mds2150 Newbie

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    well it stopped playing and a window popped up saying that DirectX encountered an unrecoverable error. sometimes after this it would go to a blue screen and say that a thread was stuck in the driver, but other times I could simply hit ok on the aforementioned directx error window and return to my desktop.
     
    mds2150, Jan 2, 2009
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  8. Colton

    Colton Also Proudly American

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    Yeah, that's definitely a driver series problem. If you can get Nvidia's mobile drivers, they would be the best, but if they don't work, try laptopvideo2go.com's drivers. They have been pretty good for me in the past.
     
    Colton, Jan 2, 2009
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    SCE_Sobek Notebook Evangelist

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    well..with a 76mm card i dunno if you will be able to run the game at all but i might be wrong...it might run in the lowest setttings.
     
    SCE_Sobek, Jan 2, 2009
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