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Device failure in windows xp home
Dash Jones:
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i have got an LCD moniter, but i can run SFC 2 Orion Pirates, i have got another pc that it works on but i'd rather play it on this one
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Now that is funny. Yes, there is a bug with certain actions with LCD monitors that cause something akin to what you are talking about. Don't know if that's what is causing your problem or not. You'll be happy to know I have no clue what the solution is. Sorry bout that if that truly is the cause.
PS: Thought I should add, not funny as in humorous, more of the ironic sort, as I was just reading about this type of bug recently, which is why I asked about the LCD monitor thing. Can't recall the exact context, but it had some relation to SFC3 if I recall in chancewise of what it could be. Very very ironic. Once again, sorry, didn't do enough research and reading into it to find out if anyone had found a solution or workaround for it yet. I don't have one if you were unfortunate to actually have that as what you are experiencing. You could verify if it's your monitor or something else perhaps by trying a different monitor and/or drivers.
Pestalence:
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yeah, mine does goto a 600x480 screen with 4 colours, and the only way i can sort it out is to restart my pc
and my drivers should be upto date
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Try downgrading your catalist drivers to see if that may be the problem.
USSDelta:
the other pc i can play it on has an lcd to, but that has no prblems, it does sometime freeze but thats just the pc being stupid
and i dunno how to downgrade them drivers
Dash Jones:
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the other pc i can play it on has an lcd to, but that has no prblems, it does sometime freeze but thats just the pc being stupid
and i dunno how to downgrade them drivers
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Sorry about the LCD, glad it works on one of them at least.
As far as the drivers, do not downgrade the S3 drivers, I would highly advise against that.
I would suggest, that You may want to pick up a Nvidia Geforce or ATI radeon card (more emphasis on Nvidia...because I favor them...however, ATI seems overall to have less problems prepatched for the SFC series). I'm not certain if that would help with the graphics problem (as I stated, I don't know the solution for the LCD problems if that truly is it), however, it would get you a new and more powerful card!
I have the catalyst 3.0 drivers however, and I also have 1 machine (and only 1, the rest either are 98, ME, or XPPRo) which is WinXP Home. There have been no problems like what is described...yet, so I imagine it is not XPHome or the catalyst 3.0 drivers. There may be something else with the combination of whatever else it is and those two that is causing certain problems however.
APEXNETHOR:
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when i try to play after a while in the campiagn and skermish modes i get an error from windows saying theres a device failure though it don't say which device
my pc specs are as followed
* win xp home
* amd athlon XP 1900+
* S3 graphics Pro savage
* direct x 9(though i got the patch)
* 500+mb SDR RAM
please help me
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The best thing to do is to run a DirectX Diagnostic report save it as an MS notepad file and post it up in here so we can see what may be giving you your DirectX 9 issues that cause you to crash bud.
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