fat_baldwin

BTW: I ran DxDiag and ran the 3d tests. everything worked fine and no conflicts/errors were detected. All my other games work fine ( RTCW, Ghost Recon, Emperror: Battle for Dune, etc. ).

well, here's an embarassing question (considering I'm a programmer ). The system I'm having a problem with I bought of my brother in law and I've no idea what the brand of the board actually is. I know it has the i440BX chipset, but dunno how to get the brand to upgrade the drivers. SO, the embarassing question would be: without cracking open the case, how do I check what MB I have? embarrasingly yours...

There's a good 2.2 Gigs free. What's DxDiag? At this point, I don't think it'd be a 3d problem, as I can't even load the external game preferences program. I thought about disk space being a problem, but alas I don't believe it is. I checked the settings for the swap file and I just have it set to grow to the size of the drive, so I'm shruggin here. any other ideas?

I have 2 computers... a winxp 1.8 Ghz w/ a GeForce2 GTS and 512 megs of ram, and a win98SE P3-450 w/ a Radeon 7000 VE and 384 megs of ram. I installed OFP on both machines and upgraded to the latest patch ( 1.42 ). Everything was upgraded okay, all was fine and dandy. OFP runs perfect on the winxp system ( the powerhouse ), HOWEVER, everytime I try and run OFP on the Win98, I get a blank error message that pops up. ie, an error message with NO message, just an "ok" button. I click it and then nothing happens. The application terminates. So, I upgrade to Directx 8.1 and download the newest drivers for the Radeon 7000 ( drivers 9009 ). Reboot, yada yada yada, I still get the blank error message whenever I try to 1. load the game 2. load the game preferences. Does anybody have ANY idea why this is happening? to recap, the problem system has the following setup: - Win98SE - p3-450 - 384 Mb RAM - ATI Radeon 7000 VE w/ latest drivers ( 9009 ) - DirectX 8.1 - OFP w/ 1.42 patch please post reply to the forum. thanks in advance, - fat_baldwin ( who has lost significant weight over the matter )