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[Sigma Taurus]

Hello everyone, thanks in advance for all the help you can provide.

So my situation is this: I bought the game and while trying to install it there was an error from the installation. I saw in another forum the option of Manual Installing, which I did so;

The game "installed" properly but crashed whenever I press any key in the "Press any key" screen just as started.

I updated my video drivers and the game begun to run...

NOW my PROBLEM is this:

I can play it and I have no sound problems but even though my pc is at the best of the specs all the graphics (Enviroment, stairs, buttons, ground, etc) are DARK

If you see the object from a considerable distance you can appreciate it completely but whenever you approach to it BANISHES or turns completely black.

I tried reducing the size of the screen, removing grain effect, using low quality graphics and the problem remains...

My specs just to confirm the fact that requirements are not a problem at all:

OS: Win 7 32bits
Procss: AMD X2 dual core 2.9Ghz
Video card: ATI Radeon 4500 HD, VRAM: 512MB
4GB RAM 667Mhz
LCD screen res 1440x990
Free HD space: 120 GB

Can anyone please tell me how to fix the "black graphics" situation? Many many many thanks!! 

 

[Gorath Alpha]

While I haven't seen any answer to your overall complaint, I need to caution you about an error you have made in your choice of game playing hardware. You do not have a gaming video card, but instead, a business graphics device, admittedly near the top of the Low End, but there certainly are going to be problems relying on such a part, if not in DA: O, which has quite generous low entry costs for a recent game, then elsewhere, such as ME1 /  Me2, and soon.

(Sorry for the need to edit there.)
 
Generally, until nVIDIA released their "200s", both ATI and nVIDIA had both been including performance codes in card names since about 2003. The "n00" hundreds digit should be a six or larger, so the appropriate Radeon was an HD 4650 (Basic, 4670 for an "XT"). For the 200s, a GT240 (desktop only) is more or less equivalent to the HD 4650, and the 220, 230 desktop cards are more or less bracketing what you have now.

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 08 mars 2010 - 10:12 .

[Gorath Alpha]

It ranks fairly low compared to current games and Mainline Gaming performance levels, but as per my forgetting I'd popped in from the other game's forums, there are some more-generous games around that will treat it as their minimum level.

www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php

I thought (when first voicing this opinion) that this one has 128 bit memory, rather than 64 bit (and was in error), so generally, I reserve my own castigation level of CRAP to anything from Intel, and any IGP, including the otherwise head of its class HD 4200, FXes, and other elderly VGAs like 6200s, 7300s, 8400s, X300s, X1050s, and HD 2400s.

This one, it turns out, is among the "almost crap" cards such as 8500 GTs, 9400 GTs, and HD 3450s. 

I hadn't looked its specifications up in quite awhile.  Above, I am comparing to the X1650 XT that I always said made so much better sense than the foolishness that EA came up with (an "X1300 XT" is minimum, while the same card in its regular name, X1600 Pro, is not -- really DUMB!)  For ME2, the engine is more efficient, and the current named minimum Radeon is the X1600 Pro, after all.  But I still prefer to say that the X1650 Pro is the Practical choice as the minimum:

www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php

There was a time my memory was like a bank vault.  These days, it seems more like a leaky collander!

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 08 mars 2010 - 11:07 .

[Sigma Taurus]

Oki Doki...



Im not sure if I understood everything you guys said (gotta admit you seem to be experts; and I thank you deeply your effort) but ehm, since my graphics card is not for gaming but for business, I won't be able to fix my dark graphics??



Should I just reinstall the whole game?



There was this funny error while attempting first install something about insert disk 1 or something. I'm pretty sure I'm not the first one that suffered such issue; would you be so kind with any information about it? Or maybe showing me a preview post that referred to that?



Thanks!

[Gorath Alpha]

Try new video drivers, and then if that's not it, a new Dx9 install, then last, a game reinstall. 

I didn't claim to have an answer to the darkness, only a cautionary note, really.  I have never tried to play games seriously on minimum hardware.  When I find whatever hardware I'm using (has slipped off the performance levels I want, until it)  is now no  better for me than Low-Medium, I upgrade, and have kept doing that since hardware began evolving so rapidly -- about 10 years ago, I suppose. 

However, I have several PCs, and instead of buying brand new stuff, I let it depreciate first, and buy relatively high end parts, after they cost much less, a couple of months after the next generation product is out.  I build quite a few more PCs besides only my own, and some of those aren't *FOR* game play, but while they are here, sometimes I do test this or that game with such PCs. 

That doesn't currently include any HD 4550.  My term for that kind of test is a "walk", since IMO, the hardware just isn't fast enough to "RUN" the games, not properly.   Interestingly, Bioware is using a video card function for feedback to enable the "Object Interaction" game options in ME2, and really slow hardware just doesn't allow the game player to click on things, because the video card's selection feedback isn't available in a timely enough manner. 

I doubt that the 4550 is quite *THAT * slow, but you should be aware it could be (and a 3450 most certainly would be, as are the Geforce 7300, 8400, 9300). 

Gorath

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 11 mars 2010 - 05:02 .

[Gorath Alpha]

For anyone following this thread, if you wanted a link to an article about going shopping (online, the only way) for a video card upgrade, it is in this locally published reference, near the bottom of the start-off message: 

social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/58/index/519461

Gorath
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