[AlMujtahid]

I just installed Tiger Woods Pga 2002 and tried to run it. However I get a message that says not enough video memory.

I have attached screenshots of the two error windows. Anybody why I get these messages and why I cannot run the game?

Thanks for any help.

Quick Specs:
P4 2.4 GHz
1GB Ram
256MB video card

[Elvandil]

What video card do you have? What operating system? What service pack level?

[AlMujtahid]

Video Card: PNY GeForce FX 5600 256MB
OS: Windos XP Home Edition service Pack 2 installed

[Abomonog]

What version of DX are you running? if it's reasonably up to date (9b or better) you may need to reinstall dx or update your video drivers. Run dxdiag.exe and see how much video memory it thinks you have.

[AlMujtahid]

I am running DirectX 9.0c. I just updated my video driver to the latest from nvidia.

Here are some of the test results. Do you need anything else?

[Abomonog]

Enopugh to tell me that the game can't count. According to your diag DX is reporting that you have 256 megs of video ram. Did you uninstall your older driver before you updated you vid card drivers? Remnants of older drivers would be my first guess at your problem.

[AlMujtahid]

Not sure. Never installed a driver in the first place. I just reformatted my HD and installed the driver. I did not remove any previous driver, or driver that comes with XP. How would I do that?

[Elvandil]

The game won't run on a video card with more than 128 megs of memory. There is a patch for the Mac, and ATI addressed the issue with the Catalyst 4.11 drivers, but I haven't seen a fix for NVidia.

[Elvandil]

Do you know what version you have (1.0, 1.1, or what)?

If your version is lower than 1.2, you could try one of these patches:

Australian patch: http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=1419

US patch: http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=1420

[AlMujtahid]

version of what is 1.0 or 1.1?

How do I check it?

[Elvandil]

Your game. It may say on the package or the CD. But it is usually in Help, About inside the program itself.

You could try following the shortcut that starts the game and see what version the file is by right-clicking it. Find the EAGames folder, probably in Program Files, then the Tiger Woods folder. Inside that may be some files you can read, maybe even a ReadMe file. You can also try right-clicking the exe in that folder.

But, if I were you, I'd just try installing the patch. The game can't get broken now, can it? All you would need to do if the patch didn't work would be to uninstall it.

[Elvandil]

Here's the 1.1 patch. Try installing this one first, then the 1.2 one above.

http://www.fileplanet.com/files/80000/86418.shtml

[Elvandil]

Here's some more links if you have problems witth the others.

1.1 patch: http://www.gamershell.com/news/1830.html
1.2 patch: http://www.gamershell.com/news/2056.html

[Abomonog]

Well, now we know the problem is in the game and not your system.

[AlMujtahid]

Thanks much Abomonog and Elvandil. The problem was like you said. The game did not support my graphics card and the update/patch did the trick. Thanks again.