Why do all the new games lock-up on me?

[Kain]

I downloaded the Far Cry and Colin McRae Rally 04 demos. Far Cry locks-up when I just enter the game menu (where you select Options and all) and Colin locks-ups while loading the game. Why? All the older games work fine. I know I computer is crap and all, but the games should atleast run.

[SH64]

"Try cat 3.7 drivers" ® :D

[jAkUp]

its probably your card. newer games arent Q&A'd on such old cards.

[ragejg]

it's the vidcard, kain... dang, d00d, time to step up to at least a GF3!! :p

oh, and I marked it on my calendar... today kain started a thread that WASN'T a poll. :p

[Heavyd]

I would sugest a radeon 8500/9200 plus because its still available to buy... has a nice 128 and will still be suported by ati with newer drivers that increase the quality of the card

[Heavyd]

in my opinion anyways

[Kain]

By the way, UT2004 works perfectly.

[saturnotaku]

Originally posted by Kain
By the way, UT2004 works perfectly.

That's expected because it's based on an "older" engine. There's nothing terribly new about UT2004 when compared to 2003.

[Kain]

So it's the hardware and not the drivers, right?

[Greb Jnnayr]

The developers just don't like you, they are out to get you. I should know because they are also out to get me, and they have already sent exploding ninja monkeys to my house now the dang things won't leave. :D

But seriously I think it is your hardware.

[saturnotaku]

Shorten your sig, dude. Mods no likey the long sigs.

[theultimo]

I'd suggest a new Video card. That card is Org radeon, right? Well, for "$50-100" you can get a video card that WONT lock up and be better anyways.. :)