Inspiron 1000 issues-please help

Wed Apr 20, 2005 4:56 am by katarna

I just won freelancer over the internet the other day and I tried to play it on my Dell Inspiron laptop. The demo played fine, but I cant even get the full game to start on my laptop. I talked to another guy here at school and he said he had had the same problem. I am running XP and was wondering if anyone could help.

Wed Apr 20, 2005 6:14 am by H.Q. Victor

Need a little more info, Speed, ram, vid ram

Graphics card too

Wed Apr 20, 2005 8:29 am by katarna

2.2 ghz, 224 mb ram, 32 mb vid ram, the graphics card is a SiS M650. Hope you can help

Wed Apr 20, 2005 8:40 am by H.Q. Victor

You really need more of each, 512 ram and min 64 mb Video ram,
Have you tried changing the graphic settings in the game to lower ones?

Edit - Note, by your ram numbers, your running intergrated ram, which means your standard ram is also handleling the graphics. It makes it a lot harder to run a game that way.

Edited by - Finalday on 4/20/2005 9:41:41 AM

Wed Apr 20, 2005 10:26 am by katarna

I know that, but the demo ran fine. Also, the game won't even open to let me change the graphics settings

Wed Apr 20, 2005 11:53 am by H.Q. Victor

Try deleteing the game, then go to your c: drive or what ever your hard drive is, and delete teh freelancer folder, then reinstall. Nothing left to corupt things and try again.

Fri Apr 22, 2005 5:09 am by katarna

never mind, for some reason the game started working the other day and it runs fine now. Thanks for all the help.

Fri Apr 22, 2005 5:32 pm by Amedeus

Hi, in responce to your problem, I am a PC tech at an Audiotronic outlet and have dealt with this prob before. You can play, { but better video would have been nice}, first lower your video refresh rate { to lighten load on GPU}, to 65 or 70 Mhz , bring your color settings down to 16bit again free up GPU and ease up on VRAM, and then right click on your freelancer shortcut , choose Properties and then choose Compatibility, Enable Compatibility mode for Win98/me.
then try game goodluck

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