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[xxMerelxx]

Yesterday I bought the game and installed it today. Right from the start I noticed that the screen turned most of the time
all types of colours, green, purple but most of the time red. I thought maybe there is something wrong with the game. But then I installed it on a laptop and there it works fine. I tried to addapt everything but nothing works. My computer meets all the requirements that the game needs:
I have a Windows Vista from Acer,
- 3,00 GB RAM memory
- Processor 2,20 GHZ
- Graphic card: 256 MB
If you need more info about my comp just ask, cuz I'm kinda getting desperate. I loved the game for the graphics and I really like the game but when I can't see anything because my whole screen is coloured red. It kinda takes away all the fun of the game. It's a long story but I hope somebody can help!!!!!!!!

Modifié par xxMerelxx, 09 décembre 2009 - 02:53 .

[Gorath Alpha]

The video RAM isn't a factor. When comparing performance, it's the LEAST important aspect of all. Count of shader processors, RAM speed, and core speed are what to look at (an "n600", Mainline Gaming card has it all).

The coloration you describe is due to video DRIVERS. You need different ones than what you have now.

The official card listings, with my comments, are these:

Video: ATI Radeon X850 256MB or greater (either this is wrong)
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT 128MB or greater (or else this one is wrong)

A more practical pair is the Radeon X800 Pro, and Geforce 6800 Vanilla, PCIe.

Gorath
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Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 06 décembre 2009 - 04:06 .

[AndrewN]

The problem you are describing definitely seems a graphics card problem, As you say it is a laptop then I would suspect the card you have is not suitable for the game, could you give us more information on it? Specifically is it based on the motherboard or is it an add in card?

[xxMerelxx]

Hi, it is a desktop, running at an ATI Radeon HD2600 Pro, driverlevel 8.391.0.0 (which appears to be the latest level)



Thanks for your quick reply, btw

[Yadasunda]

You might try this web site to check how well your system can run the game.

It evaluates all parts of your system.

http://cyri.systemre...lab.com/srtest/

%0/accmight point out the problem.

[AndrewN]

I hate to be the one to tell you but your card is at or just below the minimum spec.  If you look here dragonage.bioware.com/game/ the minimum is an x850 and if you consider this www.tomshardware.co.uk/best-graphics-card,review-31723-8.html chart an x850 pro is just below yours and an x850 XT just above.

If I was you I would consider a new card, a 2600 pro is not really suitable to run anything resembling a modern game, a quick survey of the rest of the Toms Hardware aritcle will give you an idea of a suitable card.  If you want to try again with the card you have try lowering all the graphics settings to their lowest level and possibly even reducing the resolution you are playing at, anything to reduce the pressure on your graphics card.

A 2600 pro was a very low level card when it was introduced about 4 years ago and you should probably not be trying to run anyting that is much newer than that, basically it sucked then and it sucks now .

[Gorath Alpha]

xxMerelxx wrote...

Hi, it is a desktop, running at an ATI Radeon HD2600 Pro, driverlevel 8.391.0.0 (which appears to be the latest level)

Thanks for your quick reply, btw

Make sure of the drivers through ATI, not through Microsoft (whose copies may be as much as a year out of date).  Also, don't over-estimate what the HD 2600 Pro can do.  This is a very lenient game with regard to video, although ATI's HD 2000s are getting fairly old now.  The practical minimum (Vista / Windows 7) radeon is the X1650 XT, not the stupid X1550 that Bioware erronneously named. 

Your card is right there with that one, no better, only very slightly worse on a couple of the criteria:

www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php

So you don't want to try pushing things outside of the low settings and relatively low resolution screen settings. 

But surely by now, you have come to terms with the costs of waiting this long and not upgrading, and the odd color wash problem is all you want to cure.  Go here, and don't pay attention to what Windows wants to tell you about the relative currency of the video drivers.

game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx

P. S.  You may ignore the misinformed messager's assertion about your video card.  It was a very good card three years ago, better than the 7600 GT was.  It has been overshadowed because the high end cards took such large scale performance jumps after that 2600 was new.  The Geforce 8800 leaped far beyond the Geforce 7950's performance; so far, in fact, that rather than be shown up the next year, ATI didn't include a Very High End HD 3950 card.  It is only now, with their HD 5000 high end, that ATI has taken a corresponding very large performance jump. 

Thus, in today's performance terms, a 2600 is pretty far down the scale.

Gorath
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Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 06 décembre 2009 - 10:48 .

[xxMerelxx]

Yeeh today I bought a GeForce 9400 GT and until now the game works very good! No more unwanted colours covering my screen!!! Thanks for your help and quick replies, they do really helped. Now I'm gonna play some Dragon Age. I'm so happy now hahaha

[Gorath Alpha]

It's too bad you chose to screw around and ignore my reply, quoted below.

Gorath Alpha wrote...

The video RAM isn't a factor. When comparing performance, it's the LEAST important aspect of all. Count of shader processors, RAM speed, and core speed are what to look at (an "n600", Mainline Gaming card has it all).

Any "n400", "n500" video device is for business, not for games, and is a very poor value, unless you paid about $20 or so, because an excellent choice has been on sale, stateside, for $35 after rebate.  It's a quality brand HD 4650 from Newegg. 

Gorath
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[Kobisud]

I have the same problem like xxMerelxx (Right from the start I noticed that the screen turned most of the time all types of colours, green, purple but most of the time red) and i have no idea what to do

I tried everything....

can anyone think of something new....

PLLLZZZ

[xxMerelxx]

@Gorath Alpha
Thnx for the advice but with the new one I bought now, the game works good enough for me. I could have bought a driver that you suggested but when I went to the store, they didn't had any of the graphic card/hardware you suggested. I asked for advice with wich one the game also would run smoothly and he said that the GeForce also works good for the game. (and I live in the Netherlands so I don't know if I even could get any of the drivers you selected here and for that price;) )
But thanks very much for the effort you took to help me!!

@Kobisud
With me it was a problem with my graphic card. The driver was too old so it couldn't support the game Dragon Age..it is most likely that you have the same problem I guess..You could go to the store and ask wich graphic card is good enough for the game. But of course I am not sure that you have the same problem I had..What kind of graphic card are you having now then?

Modifié par xxMerelxx, 09 décembre 2009 - 02:53 .