[Couriant]

First mistake:
bought an emachine



All jokes aside, what operating system are you using?

[rickhall]

windows vista basic

[rickhall]

but seriously, a couple of friends of mine have emachines, of course with xp, but they dont have probs with theirs. so i bought one cause its cheap, and diablo 2 has a low sys requirement. i could play with a gateway 2k and it work just fine, so i dont know what the prob is

[Couriant]

Have you tried changing the compatibility mode to Windows XP SP2?

To change the compatibility mode, you can right click on the shortcut for the game and click properties. If the shortcut is a link, click on Open File Location then right click on the game exe file. Next find the compatibility tab, and check the Run this Program, and it should be on Windows XP already. Apply and OK all of it and then try running it again.

I'm just joking about emachines... kinda They were notorious for being bad, but recently I haven't heard anything bad.

[rickhall]

it didnt work, and it said "display driver stopped responding and has recovered". i have never had this problem before. like i said it workds, but i think it has to do with my video. grrrrrrr, i need to play a game! and diablo is the best downtime game to play...... please help, and emachines arent bad, i know pc's but i dont know the vista system. if it was xp i wouldnt be having probs, lol

[Couriant]

hmm.. have you updated your drivers yet? It's possible that the onboard card is useless (providing you didn't already add in a good one)

[rickhall]

ummm didnt work, i updated a new driver. well from microsoft, and it messed up on me, i had to hardboot, its working fine now, and its still not working. but its the igfx, whatever that is....lol, is there a place i can download a better driver, i shouldnt have to rollback, do you need my brand of vc? its factory with the dt. can you think of something else? whatever info you need i will give you. please helllllllllllp, lol

[rickhall]

can i add another video card without taking this one out? and what type of vc do i need? a cheap walmart? i dont have to get an extravigant one right?

[Couriant]

http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/CS-020683.htm should be the driver location.

I noticed that the video is onboard and that it's sharing the physical memory, which means instead of having 512MB of memory, you are potentially running Vista on 288MB, which is very low for Vista.

You can install a PCI-Express® (PCI-E x16) type graphics card and disable the other one and that should help. But I don't know if that's the problem. It will be later down the road though.

[rickhall]

so if i were to install another 512 mb of ddr you think that would help? or is that not the problem? so you suggest getting a stick of ram and a new vc that will be better than this one, or at least not onboard? will it be compatible with vista? grrrrr. wish they still made xp's! grrrr

[Couriant]

for that particular game, it shouldn't. But since it's a *low spec* machine with Vista, anything's possible.

Is it just for this game, or do you have any other games that are not working?

[rickhall]

the other two games i have are oblivion and nwn 2, but i dont know if i have a good enough system for that. i did buy another stick of 512 ddr last night. but it still does it. keep in mind that it does work for diablo, but the video just scrambles

[rickhall]

also i bought a new cheap vc at wal mart and it still doesnt work, the vc is geforce mx4000 d128 3dfr 4000p. but i took it out cause it didnt help...... what could still be the prob? gosh this is frustrating

[Couriant]

my humble opinion would be the type of video card, but I don't want you to go out and buy a video card and it doesn't work. I'm pretty sure you will have issues with Obilivion. But I would suggest installing Obilivion to see what happens.

[rickhall]

could not find compatable direct3d drives is the message i get for nwn 2 and oblivion just closes and says it had to close and when i try to get a solution from microsoft, it just blows me off, the tab closes and i am about to throw the pc out the window