bubble column frozen

rleescott · 03-16-2005, 08:55 AM

I have marine aquarium v1 and v2, and just installed both on a compaq deskpro E550 pIII w/ winXP pro. In both cases the bubble column is almost completely frozen except for a few bubbles. Video card is matrox mill G200. The driver on the xp disk is from 2001, so I uninstalled it as per matrox instructions and reinstalled the latest G200/400 driver for w2000/xp from their website with no help. All other features of the program such as lighting, fish movement etc are fine. I don't want to turn the bubble column off, and I don't have this problem on an old win 98 pII with a low grade motherboard video card.
Help?

Tiny Turtle · 03-16-2005, 10:00 AM

When I had a Mill G200 the 8 MB of Video RAM it had onboard wasn't enough to handle MA2.0 with the bubble column. It did so in MA1.0 though. Any chance of you getting a new video card (even a $30 video card of today beats the snot out of a G200). As for the old mobo video chip working – this is probably due to either more VRAM or that it uses part of the regular RAM which, while slower, still is sufficiently large to handle the bubbles.

/Tiny Matroxer

Yellow Tang · 03-17-2005, 05:35 AM

Yep, it's the video card. I had a similar card with 16MB and tried several driver versions, no success. Finally I had to disable the bubbles.

03-16-2005, 08:55 AM	#1
rleescott Registered Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 20	bubble column frozen I have marine aquarium v1 and v2, and just installed both on a compaq deskpro E550 pIII w/ winXP pro. In both cases the bubble column is almost completely frozen except for a few bubbles. Video card is matrox mill G200. The driver on the xp disk is from 2001, so I uninstalled it as per matrox instructions and reinstalled the latest G200/400 driver for w2000/xp from their website with no help. All other features of the program such as lighting, fish movement etc are fine. I don't want to turn the bubble column off, and I don't have this problem on an old win 98 pII with a low grade motherboard video card. Help?

03-16-2005, 10:00 AM	#2
Tiny Turtle is pleased Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 7,365	When I had a Mill G200 the 8 MB of Video RAM it had onboard wasn't enough to handle MA2.0 with the bubble column. It did so in MA1.0 though. Any chance of you getting a new video card (even a $30 video card of today beats the snot out of a G200). As for the old mobo video chip working – this is probably due to either more VRAM or that it uses part of the regular RAM which, while slower, still is sufficiently large to handle the bubbles. /Tiny Matroxer Thanks to Morgan, Tiny Snapshots is up and running again with "Tiny Järvafält" as the latest addition – Go have a look and tell me what you think. "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another." /Robert Oppenheimer on witnessing the first thermonuclear detonation in history.

03-17-2005, 05:35 AM	#3
Yellow Tang YT Join Date: Jan 2002 Tournaments Won: 1 Location: Germany Posts: 729	Yep, it's the video card. I had a similar card with 16MB and tried several driver versions, no success. Finally I had to disable the bubbles.