Do I need to upgrade something? o_0

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Victor_ffx

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Hi Chaps,

I've recently installed Age of Empires 1 and 2 again. I tried to play multiplayer via LAN and it kept freezing in the middle of the game so I'd have to restart, the problem always seemed to be on my side because the other person would just be dropped from the game. I decided to play a single player random map and the same thing happened, it would just freeze. This is for both the AoE games.

I've uninstalled and reinstalled them both, downloaded and applied the latest patches and I even formatted yesterday and installed nothing but the AoE games o_0.

Do I need to upgrade anything do you think? Here is the important info I get from dxdiag:

System Manufacturer: K8UVM
System Model: K8Upgrade-VM800
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3400+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.2GHz
Memory: 1984MB RAM
Page File: 237MB used, 3639MB Available
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c

I'm using Windows XP Professional SP2 (I did update to SP3 just before I formatted but it didn't help either :P) and my video card is and integrated one: VIA/S3G UniChrome Pro IGP apparantly the capacity is 64MB because my shared RAM is only set to 64MB :/

Does anyone know what the problem could be? And what I should do to fix it? I'd really appreciate any help guys!!! :D

Keep well,
Victor
 
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Are you using a no-cd crack by any chance? Sometimes they cause problems, but other times they may fix the problem if there is an issue with the CD.

Did you notice if it gave you an error message during the installation process?
 
Hey Omega thanks for the reply.

No I'm using the disks but I did try a No-CD crack to see if that was the problem which it wasn't :(

Setup was completely smooth and there were no errors :S
 
Hmmm, did you say if you updated the drivers on your GPU? If you didn't then that may be the issue.
 
I was actually looking for driver updates while I was typing out my last message :P I haven't been very successful in finding them although I have downloaded what looks like a newer version of drivers. I'm gonna have a game now and I'll report back whether or not it freezes again :) can you suggest a site that I could find the latest drivers on?

And surely even though it's a rubbish graphics card it should be able to play Aoe1 lol! xD :rolleyes: I do want to upgrade it but I'd like to get to the bottom of this problem first :P

Thanks again for your trouble Omega :)
 
Haha! I got it sorted, I couldn't think of why it would keep freezing, but when I went to a car boot sale on Sunday there was a lady selling a load of computer stuff and I picked up a new case fan for £1 as it occurred to me I only had one and that could've been the problem. I installed it as soon as I got home and it hasn't frozen since :D:D woohoo!
 
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