Technical - graphics card nightmare

cidgreen · **Technical - graphics card nightmare -** 08-13-2002, 07:25 AM

Hi, I hope this is the right place to ask for help.

A friend of mine has a laptop he is trying to run MOHAA on. It has an ATI Rage Mobility M1 or something like that for a graphics card - the error that comes up when he tries to run it is something about multitexturing.

Does anyone know if it is possible to run the game on this graphics card, with new drivers or something?

If anyone could help that would be brilliant - if there is anywhere else I should have gone to ask instead it'd be great if you could let me know.

Many thanks in advance,
Chris.

Keyser Soze · **. -** 08-13-2002, 07:29 AM

what MB is the graphics card?
Also, is it a new laptop?

cidgreen · 08-13-2002, 07:32 AM

It's a fairly new laptop, about six months old, but I'm not sure how many MB the card is. Possibly 8MB?

Keyser Soze · **. -** 08-13-2002, 07:36 AM

8 mb????? thats your problem!!
How did he get an 8 mb card??
they at LEAST come with 32 i thought...

cidgreen · 08-13-2002, 07:38 AM

Hmmm, well it could be more than 8MB then I guess, I couldn't say.

If it was, say, 32MB, would he be able to run the game on it?

Keyser Soze · **. -** 08-13-2002, 07:40 AM

yes, my comuter has a 32 mb and it runs perfectly

Keyser Soze · **. -** 08-13-2002, 07:41 AM

also,... is his graphics card installed properly? that could be a problem

cidgreen · 08-13-2002, 07:44 AM

Again, I don't know. Do you think he needs to download new drivers to get it working?

Or rather, does having the latest drivers prevent the 'multitexturing' error from appearing do you think, or could that be because of a lack of memory on the card?

Thanks for your help by the way.

Keyser Soze · **. -** 08-13-2002, 07:53 AM

im not too sure. Drivers could help...

but from reading another post i found out that you need at least a 16 MB graphics card to play the game and it still ran like crap for that person.

I think the best thing is to buy a new graphics card, like the new geforce 4 128 MB!!!!! holy CRAP would that be nice to have.

(maybe i should steal my brother's computer.. warcraft 3 on that computer is AMAZING)

ozzy1965 · 08-13-2002, 02:31 PM

Chances are that he doesn't have a seperate video card in his laptop. Laptops that have a seperate video card are around 3000.00. I have a new Compaq Presario and it has onboard video. It came preset at 16 mb. If you go into the bios when you first boot up you can change the video to 32 or maybe 64 if you have an expensive laptop. MOHAA plays farely well on my compaq but you have to have the resolution and settings turned way down. Keep in mind that increasing the video takes away from your total amount of ram. If his laptop doesn't have at least 256 mb of ram this could also be a problem. Good luck.

Korvac · 08-13-2002, 03:12 PM

I wouldn't even try playing games with 3D graphics on a laptop. You can use it to hit people with though.

wintersforge · 08-13-2002, 03:50 PM

id rather use a brick....nothing says lovin like a brick in the back of the head.....u want a soda? water? juice? or you gonna get your camel-core on....

rudedog · 08-13-2002, 06:39 PM

You be surprised at the new laptops with Geforce cards. They have there own memory.

Like someone said b4, check the card and see if it's openGL compatible.

You or your friend may be out of luck

Good luck

rsx22 · 08-13-2002, 10:29 PM

i had the same problem also...wen i updated the drivers it helped.. :P

cidgreen · 08-14-2002, 11:15 AM

Thanks you everybody for your replies.

Chris.