how to fix it. This only happens with Mass Effect 1, and no other games that I have. I'm playing on a PC, and my card is a Nvidia GeForce 9800GT. If anyone has any ideas about how to fix this, or a good tech help website, that would be great.Thanks
PC Graphics card crash issue (Only happens with ME1, not ME2 or 3)
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Eadric
, mars 25 2012 05:07
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Posté 25 mars 2012 - 05:07
Eadric
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I decided to try playing through Mass Effect 1 again (to try and make sense of the series as a whole by playing start to finish), but after I play for maybe 30 minutes or so, my game will crash and I'll get a notification saying that my "display driver has stopped working." I've googled this error message, and it is horribly confusing as to (A) what the problem is, and ( how to fix it. This only happens with Mass Effect 1, and no other games that I have. I'm playing on a PC, and my card is a Nvidia GeForce 9800GT. If anyone has any ideas about how to fix this, or a good tech help website, that would be great.
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how to fix it. This only happens with Mass Effect 1, and no other games that I have. I'm playing on a PC, and my card is a Nvidia GeForce 9800GT. If anyone has any ideas about how to fix this, or a good tech help website, that would be great.Thanks
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Posté 25 mars 2012 - 05:17
Gorath Alpha
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nVIDIA drivers just don't work that reliably for such ancient graphics cards in this game. Last I heard, 258 something was where it worked correctly last.
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Posté 25 mars 2012 - 05:17
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So, are you saying that the game is too old for my graphics card? :\\
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Posté 25 mars 2012 - 05:31
Gorath Alpha
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The 9800 was released in 2008. Four years *IS* "ancient" for game playing graphics cards. The game is three years old, so drivers that old will work very well, then there was almost a year's worth of Geforce drivers that were mostly crap for this game before finally getting a handle upon the game again (but only for maybe six-eight months, I think. It was during that period I got rid of all my Geforces. I was just way too tired of the constant bad drivers).
Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 26 mars 2012 - 02:35 .
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Posté 25 mars 2012 - 05:41
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I have other games that old (and older) that work fine with the card though. Or does it mess up like this with only certain games? Either way, is there a solution to the repeated crashes, or am I just out of luck?
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Posté 25 mars 2012 - 06:23
Gorath Alpha
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Unreal Tournament 3 engine, all of those the same age as ME-1.
The longterm fix is a more current graphics card, particularly a Radeon.
(P. S. I've made several attempts to clean up my last prior comment, above this in the thread, and the software here keeps lying to say that the edits have been saved, but it never actually does it. Sorry, everyone, not my fault.)
The longterm fix is a more current graphics card, particularly a Radeon.
(P. S. I've made several attempts to clean up my last prior comment, above this in the thread, and the software here keeps lying to say that the edits have been saved, but it never actually does it. Sorry, everyone, not my fault.)
Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 26 mars 2012 - 02:39 .
