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    playing older games on 6864FX

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by pyrolite6, Aug 27, 2008.

  1. pyrolite6

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    I bought the 6864FX last week and installed Fable to see how everything looked. I can play it fine but everytime I start it up I would get a message saying that I need more RAM or it would tell me to increase my virtual memory. Halo does the exact same thing. I don't have this issue with Crysis though. So what is my problem?
     
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    What OS are you running?
     
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    I am running vista x64
     
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    yea i have vista 64 and was thinking of getting older games like Beyond Good & Evil and Resident Evil 4, but unsure of how they'll work in Vista 64 bit. Would hate to drop like $10-$20 a piece just to find out they're completely incompatible.
     
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    I was told that vista x64 could possibly be the reason for it.
     
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    Just curious, but what is your virtual memory set to?

    Try setting it to XP Compatible in the programs properties.

    Right click Fable executible. Properties -->Compatible tab, tick compatibility mode Windows XP.
     
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    My virtual memory is set at 6139 mb (that's what windows recommended). The XP compatibility has already been checked. I tried to mess with the properties a little bit, but it hasn't changed anything.
     
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    Did you set it as run only as administrator? If not try checking that box, (in the same section as xp compatability) then when you want to run it right click the icon and choose run as administrator. This worked for me on an older game.

    MB
     
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    Well as strange as this sounds I took it to best buy last night to show it to the geek squad guy. I told him what was going and he said that it shouldn't be popping up. We turned on my laptop and he started up fable and the message didnt pop up. Pretty strange, huh? I'm still having probelms with Halo though. I am thinking that it could have something to do with dx10.
     
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    Vista handles memory radically different than XP. That's the problem - but it isn't really a problem other than the warning. Don't sweat it.

    I was thinking about getting Fable too.
     
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    I tried Quake 2 on that M-6851 I had (similar to the 64FX) and it worked fine.
    Of course, the benchmark was silly, 175fps or something crazy - heck, this 6860FX does like 700-800fps on Q2 - rather funny, really!

    Anyways, I tried Q2 and it was fine, as was GLQuake (Quake 1). That was about all I tried. I wanted to bust out the MechWattior2 stuff, and see how it liked Vista...probably will over this long weekend.

    T
     
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