Graphics problem - Initializing old game (Metal Gear Solid)?

Hi

I just installed Metal Gear Solid on my PC and it's an ancient game. I easily have the system requirements but when I first ran it I got a message about the game not being able to run under my graphics card and would use software rendering.

Now when I try to open the game, I get the following message:

"Game crashed during previous initialization, game starting software rendering mode..."

The screen then goes all black like it's opening the program, then it just suddenly closes. No pop-up or anything telling me it has to close.

My graphics card is a crappy laptop one, but the system requirements for this game are like 32mb card and DirectX7. My card is a GeForce Go 6100, not amazing but it should be able to run this game.

Is there any way I can fix this?

Graphics problem - Initializing old game (Metal Gear Solid)?

actually if your gaming on at latop, the problems is your direct x, u need to update, to 9 or 10, its free,,here the site..http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/dir...

Graphics problem - Initializing old game (Metal Gear Solid)?

"I easily have the system requirements" NO, you don't.

The game is so old it only ran in DOS mode on Windows 95 / 98. Today's Windows versions do not have true DOS built-in, they merely TRY to "emulate MS-DOS" (in Compatibility mode), AND 2000/XP/Vista do NOT allow "direct hardware control" which your game NEEDS.

And of course your hardware and graphics card technology didn't even exist back then, so how could it be compatible with a 13 year old game?

Bottom Line:

DOS games either run on Windows 2000 and newer, OR they don't! You could try FreeDOS or DrDOS, but...

Graphics problem - Initializing old game (Metal Gear Solid)?

Although the poster above has the right idea. His info is actually wrong. As Metal Gear Solid is designed for Windows 95/98.

SADLY. THAT IS THE PROBLEM. Metal Gear Solid WILL NOT work on Windows XP.

The only solution I can give you is install Windows 98. Perhaps you can use a virtualization software for that.

PS. You might try right clicking on the exe file and choose "Windows 98 compability", it might work. Chances are it won't though.

Graphics card question.?

I have a HP Pavilion Slimline s3230, It's a nice PC which takes up very little space, but unfortunately came with a very crappy graphics card. I'm easily confused when it comes to these things, so can anyone recommend a really good graphics card, (512mb minimum) that is small enough to fit in this PC ?

Graphics card question.?

hi gail

this is the main problem with new p.c,s ,manufacturers try to save money by shipping their p.c,s with either onboard/intergrated graphics or budget low end graphic cards

however its not as expensive as you think to upgrade your current graphics solution and decent cards start at as low as 鎷?0

you first need to find out what type of interface your motherboard uses(agp or pci-express),howevr since your p.c is quite new it will support pci-express

here are three of the best pci-express cards around and all are less than 鎷?00

the Asus ATi Radeon HD 3650 256MB (http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Component... a excellent modern card with all the latest features including pixel and shader model 4.1 and direct x 10.1

heres its main specifications.............................

ATI Radeon HD 3650 GPU @ 725MHz

256MB GDDR3 Memory @ 1600MHz

120 Stream Processors

Glaciator Fansink

HDMI output support

PCI-E 2.0 supported

next is the XFX Geforce 8600GT 256MB XXX DDR2(http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Component... and this again supports the lastest shader model 4.1 and direct x 10.1 and also has support for open Gl 2.0

heres it main specs......................................

Chipset ...nVIDIA 8600GT

Cooling.... Fan

Direct x support... OpenGL 2.0, DirectX 10

Dvi output ...2 x Dual Link DVI-I

Gpu speed... 620 MHz

Interface... PCI-Express x16

Memory... 256MB

Memory clock... 1600MHz

Video output ...HDTV out

finally theres the Sapphire Radeon X1950PRO 512MB(http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Component... this isnt direct x 10 this is the fastest of the three and still one of the best cards around and the best sub 鎷?00 card bar none

heres its main specs......................................

Core clock speed ...580 MHz

Digital video standard... Digital Visual Interface (DVI)

Directx ...DirectX 9.0

Graphics processor / vendor... ATI Radeon X1950 Pro

Interface type... PCI Express x16

Max monitors supported... 2

Max resolution... 2560 x 1600

Memory bus... 256 bit

Memory clock speed ...1.4 GHz

Memory size ...512MB

Memory type ...GDDR3

Opengl ...OpenGL 2.0

Ramdac ...400MHz

Tv interface ...TV out

Video adapter features... ATI CrossFire Technology

Warranty... 1 year RTB

not all these cards have a 512mb memory,as you dont need 512mb for most applications and games,only games that run ultra detail settings really need that much memory

out of the three i would go for the x1950pro,its a awesome card and extremely powerful for its low price,this card will handle any game or application you throw at it

any problems let me know

good luck gail !

Graphics card question.?

nvidia do good graphics cards.

have a look

http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_fam...

Graphics card question.?

As far as I can make out from the specs (http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/en/ho/... your current graphics is onboard (ie. it is integrated into the motherboard), not a discrete card.

The specs also say that the only expansion slot you have is one low-profile PCI slot. Modern graphics cards require at least an AGP slot, or a PCI-Express slot. The only graphics card you could switch to would be limited to very old technology, and would be a downgrade form your onboard graphics.

Unless I've looked up the wrong specs, I'm afraid you're straight out of luck, sorry.

Graphics card question.?

Your PC has the HD 2350 entry level dedicated graphics card. It seems that your PC only takes low profile cards. There are few low profile cards that are more powerful than the HD 2350 in your PC. Consider these:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/...

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/...

Graphics Card w/ dual monitors?

Can anyone suggest a good graphics card that can handle two monitors (not duplicating the same image on both) and plays mmo like Second life well? Also can you get a graphics card with a monitor imput and use the onboard monitor imput?

Graphics Card w/ dual monitors?

I have try to use dual monitor and it really easy to configure. I use onboard vga for first monitor, and an agp card for second one. You can configure what image to display on both monitor in Windows Display Properties.

Graphics Card w/ dual monitors?

nivdia gforce 8500

Graphics Card w/ dual monitors?

Dual moniters? Get Dual AK-47s

Graphics Card w/ dual monitors?

NVIDIA

Graphics Card w/ dual monitors?

nvidia 8800 ultra is the best gfx card i think.

Graphics Card w/ dual monitors?

are you on a budget? if you are, just get the 8600 GT because thats more than enough to display dual monitor and play second life at the same time... but if you want to be future proof, i'd go with either the ati 3870 x2 or the nvidea 9800 gx2

Graphics Card w/ dual monitors?

I have a 8600GT...much cheaper if you had a limited budget. Works fine for me. To the other question...I don't see why not.

Graphics Card w/ dual monitors?

Pretty much every graphics card worth mentioning can easily handle dual monitors. As for running Second Life, again any new card with a brand name on it will be more than adequate.

I've never heard of a graphics card with an input, usually inputs are done by seperate video capture cards. It's an entirely different set of hardware required.

Graphics Card w/ dual monitors?

If u want a vga output graphics, it is now difficult to find it. All u can do is buy the DVI to vga connector and plug ur vga cable on it. The 8500gt, 8600gt or gts, 8800, 9600 or 9800 series graphics the the best graphics card.

Graphics Card w/ dual monitors?

nivdia gforce 8500

Graphics Card w/ dual monitors?

well, i would get NVidia 8800 GT and get DVI-VGA converter, but the image quality wont be as good, also 8500 GT comes with dual VGA, =)

hope this answered your question, please put as best answer =)

Graphics Card w/ dual monitors?

http://www.secondlife.com

Graphics driver will not run.?

Ok so I have a dell that has all stuff from the factory and I have a radeon 9025 graphics card. it was setup at my old house just the way it is now but I got a virus and had to reboot the whole system(including the factory graphics card). so I have put the new one in a open slot, uninstalled the old driver and installed the new driver from the ati site but when I plug the monitor into that card the screen is blank and when I plug it into the old slot the screen comes up fine but everythings huge. help please

Graphics driver will not run.?

So you now have two graphics cards in the machine? Generally windows etc will only load initially onto the 'primary' card. So if the original card is still in the system take it out.

From your description when you connect the monitor to the old card it comes up with a picture but everything is huge. I'd say that's because you unistalled its driver so it's using the very limited windows standard driver.

How can I insert graphics in a table so they will NOT appear as attachments when the table is emaile

I do a lot of tables creation for advertising for work, but not being a trained graphics expert I am unsure as to creating those nice looking tables for email marketing purposes. The graphics always look nice, but they appear as attachments when sent by email. I am creating the table in Microsoft Word, inserting chosen graphics and written text, then copying and pasting the completed table into an email to blast out to a couple of thousand clients. Is there another program, other than Word I should use - I have InDesign and the less complicated Microsoft programs - or perhaps - is there another way to insert the graphics? Thanks.

How can I insert graphics in a table so they will NOT appear as attachments when the table is emailed?

copy and paste

How can I insert graphics in a table so they will NOT appear as attachments when the table is emailed?

css code

so, give each table an id tag and in css asign an image for that id so like

.id

{

background-image: url("image.url");

}

so the tag would be,

%26lt;table id="id"%26gt;%26lt;/table%26gt;

How can I insert graphics in a table so they will NOT appear as attachments when the table is emailed?

The reason your images appear as attachments is that's how you are sending them. The minute you send the picture along with the mail, they are attachments.

The emails you get with images are not sending the images in the mail too - the images are stored on the company's servers. The email just provides a link to the location. Word can do that, or you can do it by had in the HTML code the way the previous answer gave.

How can I insert graphics in a table so they will NOT appear as attachments when the table is emailed?

Convert it to a PDF file and send the file as an email attachment. All images will go with it and will be viewable when they open the PDF file. Adobe's PDF Reader is free to use so indicate they need this.

Everyone should have the latest PDF reader of whatever company that makes free ones.

Ron

Graphics card sloth help?

I ran a program to find out what graphics card slots i have, it displyed this -

Bus(es) - ISA AGP PCI IMB USB i2c/SMBus

I can see AGP in there and was just double checking if that is the slot i should buy a new graphics card for, also what does the rest of that mumbo jumbo mean, sorry i really dont know alot about computers.

Graphics card sloth help?

hi ben

yes you have a agp slot and you need to buy a agp type graphic card,however now you need to download a diagnostic program called "sisoft sandra lite" from http://www.sisoftware.net/index.html?dir...

you now need to discover the agp version you have and type,hopefully you will have version 2.0 and the type agp 1.5v,as this is compatible with nearlly all the latest agp graphic cards

if its agp 3.0v then you may have problems locating a decent modern agp card as this is the older version,and harder to find newer cards in this version

once you have downloaded SiSoftware Sandra XII you need to look for the diplays sub catergory and this will give you the information you need

if you are having problems finding out the type of agp card then e-mail me the motherboards name and model number(you can also find this out in SiSoftware Sandra XII )

for advice and purchasing a agp card let me know

good luck ben !

Graphics card sloth help?

well, if you have a motherboard with pci-express then that is the way to go, with most of the nvidia 8 series using that slot

for those you will need a pci-e 16x slot

for agp you can still get 7 series cards which will do a good job

the rest is mostly stuff for other cards, e.g. sound cards and wifi cards

Graphics card sloth help?

yes you are right

Will an ATI X1550 graphics card give me next-gen graphics?

I am looking for a cheap graphics card and was wondering if the x1550 will give me next-gen graphics. If it doesn't could you recommend a graphics card that will.

Will an ATI X1550 graphics card give me next-gen graphics?

no X1550 is crap, and only DX9c.

For next gen these are the DX10 options i would recommend :

ATI : HD 2900XT

Nvidia: Geforce 8600 Ultra

all cards under the ones above run on buses that are below 256MB, hence will hurt performance greatly.

Will an ATI X1550 graphics card give me next-gen graphics?

The best thing you could possibly do is watch this website and look at the guides for their computers:

http://sharkeyextreme.com/guides/index.p...

They have a Value Gaming Rig, High-End Gaming Rig and Extreme gaming rig. Look at what they recommend for you price range.

You'll be hooked when you start watching :)

GL

Will an ATI X1550 graphics card give me next-gen graphics?

In basic essence, playing a PC game is drastically different from playing a PC game.

For example, a PC game's performance depends on how powerful your computer is, while console hardware never change, so how will you describe your "next-gen" graphics? Are those games even made right now?

Or are you referring to the latest games to be able to display the maximum graphical settings?

In that case, you have minimal choices, Windows Vista has Direct X10, this allows better graphical quality than Direct X9, but this requires Direct X10 compatible video card. These are the choices for those video cards :

From the most expensive to the Cheapest :

NVidia GeForce 8800GTX

ATI Radeon 2900XT

NVidia GeForce 8600

NVidia GeForce 8500

This is the minimum video cards requires to play the upcoming Direct X10 games such as Crysis.