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RedBombX
10-07-2004, 03:44 PM
i played this game for a while and before i quit i remember the playonline viewer running slow and it looked very pixel-ated and now i'm decided to get back into this wonderful game and it still has this same problem.. it won't allow me to update, and even the mouse moves slow in that window.

so is there any way i can fix this problem? has anybody had this problem?
Mithrankittycat
10-07-2004, 04:12 PM
I get that problem when running in windowed mode instad of full mode. I also got that problem when I disabled the ATI smartgart service. Maybe you don't have drivers installed properly? E:
RedBombX
10-08-2004, 06:17 AM
thank you, i'll try it in full mode, but also what is ATI smartgart?
Mithrankittycat
10-08-2004, 06:24 AM
Some windows xp service
RedBombX
10-08-2004, 06:43 AM
hmm... nothing is working, any other ideas?

thanks
Mithrankittycat
10-08-2004, 06:47 AM
what's your video card?
RedBombX
10-08-2004, 06:54 AM
saddly enough it's only a Radeon 7500 ; 64mb

and i have a 1.2GHz intel processor

i have 3.5G/40G available

yea....my comp isn't the newest but before when i played this game i didn't have this problem with the playonline viewer lagging so badly
Mithrankittycat
10-08-2004, 07:00 AM
Have you tried downloading latest ati drivers and reinstalling?

The redundant steps I'd take would be:
Get directx 9c
Find out motherboard model and get latest chipset drivers
Get latest ati catalyst drivers
Find out monitor model and download drivers for it, making sure you don't have a "default monitor" installed in hardware manager.
Right click "my computer" and go into "manage" and go into "services and applications". Make sure "ATI Smart" is set to "automatic", maybe even try starting it manually by right clicking on it. It doesn't remain "started", but if you monitor flicks off and on you might've fixed it.