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Dale · 02-02-2009, 10:53 PM

Originally posted by Jim Sachs:

That old Vaio I mentioned only has a 32-meg video card (chip), but it is still able to use the HAL and not fall back to software rendering. Speed is poor - you can tell that the system is paging the textures - and there are occasional video hiccups. But it does run MA3 without errors, so it seems like your 32-meg card should, too. I'll be interested to see if swapping cards has any effect.

Just a wild-hair thought. My Compaq is showing the error when the "color quality" is 24-bit. That's a rather unusual setting (but as high as this wimpy machine goes). Does your old Vaio have that available? [Or can somebody else test?] Is there a chance that MA3 croaks on 24-bit color?

Probably not what's happening, but it's worth asking.

02-02-2009, 10:53 PM	#37
Dale Banned Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Western Missouri Posts: 960	Originally posted by Jim Sachs: That old Vaio I mentioned only has a 32-meg video card (chip), but it is still able to use the HAL and not fall back to software rendering. Speed is poor - you can tell that the system is paging the textures - and there are occasional video hiccups. But it does run MA3 without errors, so it seems like your 32-meg card should, too. I'll be interested to see if swapping cards has any effect. Just a wild-hair thought. My Compaq is showing the error when the "color quality" is 24-bit. That's a rather unusual setting (but as high as this wimpy machine goes). Does your old Vaio have that available? [Or can somebody else test?] Is there a chance that MA3 croaks on 24-bit color? Probably not what's happening, but it's worth asking.