Windows XP ?

[old.surge220]

Anyone have Windows XP installed and running tribes?
I recently formatted my drive, added ram(running 512 now), added 52x cd-rom, and have 600 amd processor. Vid card is a
Hercules prophet II mx.

Tribes2 ran fine on windows 98 with these cards and processor, minus the ram (had 128k) and 52x cd-rom(had 32x).

I have Tribes 2 installed and current patch has been loaded but whenever it tries to run, I get an "unhandled exception" error.
Any help will do. I've been to the sierra site to no avail.

Thx
surge220

 

[old.KmA_MANTIS]

Hmmm...

T2 wont run on a default install of XP with a geforce card as you have found out it UE's every time.

Install the latest Detonator drivers from the Nvidia site and all will be well.

 

[old.caz]

^^ what he said


and if u have probs getting the patchs update the actual updater

 

[Sawtooth]

Only prob I had was a bug with the updater so I manually dled it and upgraded. Now alls working fine. I'm using the detonator 21.83 drivers btw.

Hope you sort it.

Saw

 

[old.surge220]

Thanks...

Thants what I did. I went Nvidia and downloaded the detanator file. Worked like a charm right after that....


Thanks to all that posted,

hope to kill you soon in tribes2.

surge220

 

[old.mespo]

Anyone managed to get 120HZ+ refresh rate with new dets yet in xp and if so what version?
Allso i found t2 ran perfectly with defualt install of xp except for the crappy refresh rate 70hz or somink.

 

[old.Sogo]

Aye, like Mesp and Bob007, I've not had any issues with XP and T2 on my DDR athy system. You might like to try a few tweaks/fixes that can be found in the UpsetChaps guide below, and pick up drivers from Guru3D for your GTS.

If you are running an SBlive with liveware, you will certainly want to remove the liveware and replace the drivers with the minimal set from the Creative webby. Also try turning down hardware acceleration in the display properties>advanced>troubleshooting section. Drop it down one notch .. that seems to fix a whole lotta probs.

Same goes with DX Sound acceleration. Run menu>dxdiag

Drop the slider all the way to the left so it is "off". Of course if you encounter stuttering in other games then more than likely you will have to change that back to its normal setting "full accelleration".

Hope that helps

Visit the Upset Chaps Tribes2 guide.
Grab drivers from Guru3D webby.