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Originally Posted by marklwood
kickstar, The major problem I see is the video subsystem. The NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100 does not have any dedicated memory. Hoster's minimum requirements. Quoted from the Hoster page:
Graphics Video card with at least 32MB of RAM. that supports Direct-X 9.0b or higher (cards with less than 32MB RAM usually don't support 9.0b). Dual-display requires an ATI Radeon 9000 or higher, or NVidia equivalent. S3 video cards or chips in laptop computers don't support Direct-X 9.0.
While your card will support direct-x 9, it is starving for memory. Is this a dedicated machine, or do you use it for other things? If it is a dedicated machine, you can go here http://www.blackviper.com/ and use the info to tweak your system to get rid of any overhead. This may allow you to run 4.06 on your older laptop. I have had good success in the past using these methods.
Unless you are very comfortable making these changes (I am), I would wait untill you have Hoster installed on your newer machine before you make these changes. You seem to have been able to avert disaster by using system restore. You could always do it again.
As far as the Vista machine click here to visit the page that tells you what the required changes are to Vista. Then, if you still can't install 3.321, submit a support ticket to see about clearing up your reg code for a second install. http://www.mtu.com/support/support-frame.htm
I hope this helps you in some way. Please post back here with your progress. It may help someone in the future. |
Under Display Properties/Settings/Advanced/Adapter it says:
The NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100 has integrated RAMDAC and the memory size is 256 MB. The display is set to multiple monitors and has supported the Dual Display option with no problems, thus far.
Under Display Properties/Settings/Advanced/GeForce Go 6100 tab, the following is noted:
Video bios version is 5.51.28.42.39
IRQ is 17
Bus is integrated
Memory is 256 MB
Forceware version is 84.64
DirectX version is DirectX 9.0 or better.
OS is Windows XP SP3
Processor= Mobile AMD Sempron Processor 3200+
There is a check mark under Display properties that says, "Hide modes that this monitor cannot display" It is checked. It says further, "Clearing this check box allows you to select display modes that this monitor cannot display correctly. This may lead to an unstable display and/or damaged hardware".
Reading that makes me leery of unchecking the box.
There is also a check mark in the "Enable Write Combining" box under the Troubleshoot tab. In this same tab, the hardware acceleration is set to full and has not been a problem.
I'm not sure I want to go to the tweak site and remove any overhead since it has worked flawlessly before... I have used DirectX 9.0 for other applications prior to this.