AoE III Problems

TrmblingBluStar · Sep 23, 2005, 05:08 PM

Hello everybody! I'm new here, and I'm already nagging people about my problems! :-)

I have a Radeon 9600XT - 256MB card and am using Catalyst 3.8 drivers - pretty out of date, I know. Anyway, I downloaded the AoM III demo and played it for about a week before I started getting an error upon startup saying I only have a 32MB card. It allows me to start the game, but it's pretty much unplayable.

I started up the Psychonauts demo, and the F.E.A.R. demo and encountered similar problems. Yet, other games like Age of Mythology run perfectly fine. And, when I check the ATI control panel it reports the correct amount of video RAM. I'm not sure what could be the issue.

I installed new virus software just before this problem started. Figuring it was causing some sort of conflict, I immediately uninstalled, but the problem persists.

If anybody has any suggestions, or knows of someone with similar problems, please help!

**MIG-31** · Sep 23, 2005, 05:20 PM

Perhaps you need to update the drivers from those 3.8's you are using.....Psychonauts and the fear demo were not around back then of the 3.8 release.

Just a suggestion.

Ferret_Style · Sep 23, 2005, 05:20 PM

upgrade the drivers..... not really anything any one can do till you atleast get on version 5 drivers even 5.1's I would suggest 5.8's though

TrmblingBluStar · Sep 23, 2005, 08:57 PM

Updating the drivers to 5.9 seems to have done the trick!

Oddly enough, when I tried installing the drivers in safe mode (WinXP), it would give me an error message about not having the required hardware or software.