WeatherScope Problems?

[Brett Adair]

I have been in constant contact with the guys at OCS trying to determine what is going wrong with Weatherscope on my machine. I have a 256mb nVIDIA GeForce FX-5500 card with a Machspeed motherboard and 3.0 GhZ P4 CPU. It continues to crash and I have checked drivers and everything and I can not determine a solution. It runs fine on my laptop with the ATI 128mb card installed. Another friend has a laptop with an nVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS card and his does the same thing. Anyone know a possible solution? Thanks.

 

[JF Massicotte]

your FX-5500 might be too old.

Some of the Direct-X 9 features are not availlable on the FX-5500...

 

[Brett Adair]

your FX-5500 might be too old.

Some of the Direct-X 9 features are not availlable on the FX-5500...

Good call. That was my thinking as well. Anyone have any recommendation as to what I could upgrade to? I think this video memory has something to do with it.

 

[J Kinkaid]

how much do you want to spend ?

 

[Brett Adair]

Well, just enough to get a good card to run the program. I don't understand how the card can not support Direct X 9.0C yet it runs GR2AE and all the other programs that HAVE to have that version of DirectX. I'm still going to make an attempt by changing the video card. I suppose I might need to go with an ATI this time. Either AGP 4x or 8x.

 

[JF Massicotte]

I think you can get a radeon for about 100 bucks that would do the job. Look at any of the X series and you should be all fine.

 

[Brett Adair]

how much do you want to spend ?

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=A0728588

I think I may be looking to spend around that much. 512mb with shader 3.0 seems good.

 

[JF Massicotte]

This card will probably do the job right...

 

[Zac Flamig]

I have been in constant contact with the guys at OCS trying to determine what is going wrong with Weatherscope on my machine. I have a 256mb nVIDIA GeForce FX-5500 card with a Machspeed motherboard and 3.0 GhZ P4 CPU. It continues to crash and I have checked drivers and everything and I can not determine a solution. It runs fine on my laptop with the ATI 128mb card installed. Another friend has a laptop with an nVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS card and his does the same thing. Anyone know a possible solution? Thanks.

Keep in mind I haven't used Weatherscope much but I believe its OpenGL based and not DirectX. With that in mind rushing out to buy a new video card might not be the best idea. Have the OCS guys done any sort of debugging, have you sent them a crash dump? I'd suspect this plus a quirk in either some video cards or a way they are doing things as the problem. That said changing video cards might fix your problems anyways.