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Ever thought to format the computer? It helped alot on my last one, at it was 7 years old.

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"...there used to be more benches, but InGen's workers removed them during the evacuation in the name of framerate."

I'd say reformat every 2 to 3 years tops, if you use the computer frequently.

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"Well, as long as you're under there, you can check the breakers," Thorne said. ... "There's a box right behind the front bumper. Over on the left."
"I see it." [said Sarah]
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"The box is in backward. Flip all the switches the other way. Are you dry?"
"No, Doc. I'm soaking wet, lying in the damn mud."
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If I hadn't just suffered through this 2 fps (and that's being generous) using tresed, I would never have believed it could run so horribly. I just finished upgrading to xp and beyond missing sound drivers, I thought everything had gone smoothly. Oh, was I wrong! I could actually see tresed's sky clouds moving 1 frame every 3 seconds... it was sad.

To cut it short, even though xp installed what appeared to be the correct drivers for my video card 32mb NVidia (and this is a ten year old card), they weren't. It took me two attempts at driver downloads from dell before I got the correct ones installed. It runs like it did before, nice and smooth.

So, don't give up looking for the right driver.

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The problem is my motherboard's BIOS not my Harddrives, and I've reformatted them multiple times over the years, just ask Draco.

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Hmm...what drivers might I need?

For yours? You'd need to search the Intel site to see if they're still available, but I'm not very optimistic about the results...

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Intel Graphics is pretty much dead, most people have an nVidia or ATI video card/chip these days, those that don't either have an old computer or are computer illiterate.

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Anthropology ~ A beautiful tale.
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Sonofabish....

I've seen nVidia 7800 AGP x8 graphics cards on eBay for 20 USD, cheap considering I got my nVidia 6200A AGP x8 for 40 USD

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~ They told me humans weren't real... I proved them wrong.
Anthropology ~ A beautiful tale.
EpicZen
Carnivores Hub ~ Need the full games without all the hassle of torrents or viruses? Run on over to EpicZen's Carnivores Hub!

Damn, I need to get one of those, for that price. Although the 6600 I got some time ago isn't bad, either. Haven't seen any around here, so ebay it is, then...
But jetblack would need to check if his motherboard has an AGP slot in the first place...

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Visit The Carnivores Saga - a forum devoted to modding Action Forms' Carnivores, Carnivores 2 and Carnivores: Ice Age games
Tres WIP: updated T-Script Reference and File Formats documents
Sound name listings for the Demo (build 117), Retail (build 116), Beta 103, Beta 99, Beta 97, Beta 96, Build 55, PC Gamer Alpha (build 32) and E3 1998 Alpha (build 22) TPA files

I actually did some research on the AGP cards, after the 6200 release, they didn't really do much to increase the AGP card's performance, the 6200A was one of the last AGP power-house cards that kicked major PCI-e ass.

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~ They told me humans weren't real... I proved them wrong.
Anthropology ~ A beautiful tale.
EpicZen
Carnivores Hub ~ Need the full games without all the hassle of torrents or viruses? Run on over to EpicZen's Carnivores Hub!

On second thought, I better save for a Core 2 Duo @3.2GHz I've seen and leave this P4 at its current config...

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Visit The Carnivores Saga - a forum devoted to modding Action Forms' Carnivores, Carnivores 2 and Carnivores: Ice Age games
Tres WIP: updated T-Script Reference and File Formats documents
Sound name listings for the Demo (build 117), Retail (build 116), Beta 103, Beta 99, Beta 97, Beta 96, Build 55, PC Gamer Alpha (build 32) and E3 1998 Alpha (build 22) TPA files

snipped because oh god young me is embarrassing