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Post Sun May 11, 2003 5:46 pm

This really sucks....someone help!

Ok heres my problem, i live in the midwest and my new computer just got fried by lightning the other day. I had to plug in my other computer that my mom has which is only a year old. The problem is the intel 82815 graphics processor that causes the text to screw up. Im not about to go buy a new 300 dollar graphics card when i just lost almost $1400 on my computer. Any idea how to fix it or when a patch will be released to fix it.

Post Mon May 12, 2003 7:41 pm

I don't have a fix for that chipset, but for <$40 you can get a 32M 3D card (such as the Radeon 7000) which should solve your problem.

Post Mon May 12, 2003 7:48 pm

You spent $1400 on a computer without a good graphics card????! Lemme guess, a prebuilt one? if you build computers yourself its soo much cheaper its unbelievable.

Your best bet is a Geforce 4 MX, should be under $100

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WARNING: THIS POST MAY CONTAIN TRACES OF PEANUT

Edited by - TheJkWhoSaysNi on 12-05-2003 20:56:49

Post Tue May 13, 2003 4:15 am

The computer that blew up with the lightning strike had a kick@$$ graphics card along with everything else. It was built by me and not from gateway or dell. The problem is the lightning hit it and honestly blew up just about everything inside of the tower, thats why im using the gateway. Ill have to go get a new v-card i guess, thanx for the suggestions.

Post Thu May 15, 2003 8:02 pm

go to the EXE subdirectory of freelancer, scroll down to where it says INTEL, and replace that section with the following: (let me know if this works)
(you could just type in the two changes if you want, its just adding TextureOffset line and deleting another one that was right under it.

///////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// INTEL
//
//////////////////////////////////////////////////

Vendor = 0x8086 "Intel"


0x7800 = "740"
0x1240 = "752"
Bad8888
NoMipMap
ForceSquareTextures
LimitTextureSize
UnsupportedHardware
break

0x7121 = "810"
0x7123 = "810"
0x7124 = "810e"
0x7125 = "810e"
0x7126 = "810"
0x7127 = "810"
0x1132 = "815"
TextureOffset
Bad8888
NoMipMap
LimitTextureSize

if os > win2k
if driver < 6.13.1.3196
UnsupportedDriver
endif
endif
if os == win2k
if driver < 5.13.1.3196
UnsupportedDriver
endif
endif
if os < win2k
if driver < 4.13.1.3196
UnsupportedDriver
endif
endif
break

0x3577 = "830"
0x2560 = "845g"
0x2562 = "845"
0x3580 = "852"
if os > win2k
if driver < 6.13.1.3413
UnsupportedDriver
endif
endif
if os == win2k
if driver < 5.13.1.3413
UnsupportedDriver
endif
endif
if os < win2k
if driver < 4.13.1.3413
UnsupportedDriver
endif
endif
break

unknown = "**UNIDENTIFIED**"
UnknownHardware
break

Post Thu May 15, 2003 8:04 pm

i noticed my post did not include the indentation of the code, so you might be better off just manually typing in the two changes. it is just adding that one line and deleting the one four lines down from it, i think its like forcetext or somthing like that.... let me know how things go

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