Geforce G210 card issues?

[piscean57]

Just bought a new PC and the game goes all the way through load up to "Press any key" and when I do, it dumps back to the desktop.

I am on 64bit W7 but others here say thats not a problem...so I am assuming its graphics card related.

Messaged ICC with the dxdiag file and they said I have the latest card drivers and suggested I roll back to the previous version. Just did that and the issue remains as before.

I have mailed them and await further suggestions, but wondered if anyone here could help? (I am not very techie but can try stuff!)

Thanks.

[piscean57]

So no one replied to help

Anyway I thought I would update to help anyone in the future who has this issue.

All this arose when I changed PC's. I have both still running and wasn't going to swap over totally to the new one until everyting was working. The new one doesn't have a dedicated soundcard but gets sound off the motherboard I guess()?) I hadn't bothered switching my speakers etc over to the new PC but ICC suggested that it was possible that the game wasn't loading as there was no soundcard / speakers.

I really thought that sounded like BS to be honest, but I connected the speakers and....bingo.....the game works in both DX9 and DX10 modes.

As I expected the graphics card seems to struggle a bit though even though it is 512MB - once the action gets involved it isn't very smooth and thats at 800x600.

[Gniarf]

No way! You mean that if you unplug the speakers it crashes again??

[piscean57]

Yes...how weird is that?

This is the DXdiag for the sound when the speakers are not connected...
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Sound Devices
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Description:
Default Sound Playback: No
Default Voice Playback: No
Hardware ID:
Manufacturer ID:
Product ID:
Type:
Driver Name:
Driver Version:
Driver Attributes:
WHQL Logo'd:
Date and Size:
Other Files:
Driver Provider:
HW Accel Level: Emulation Only
Cap Flags: 0x0
Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0
Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 0, 0
Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0
HW Memory: 0
Voice Management: No
EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No

...and then when I plug the speakers in its this...

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Sound Devices
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Description: Speakers (High Definition Audio Device)
Default Sound Playback: Yes
Default Voice Playback: Yes
Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0888&SUBSYS_1462736B& REV_1002
Manufacturer ID: 1
Product ID: 65535
Type: WDM
Driver Name: HdAudio.sys
Driver Version: 6.01.7600.16385 (English)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
WHQL Logo'd: n/a
Date and Size: 7/14/2009 00:07:00, 350208 bytes
Other Files:
Driver Provider: Microsoft
HW Accel Level: Basic
Cap Flags: 0xF1F
Min/Max Sample Rate: 100, 200000
Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 1, 0
Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0
HW Memory: 0
Voice Management: No
EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No

[Gniarf]

Originally Posted by piscean57

Yes...how weird is that?

As weird as a soundcard that deactivates itself when it has no speaker to play sound through. Maybe some kind of power saving feature (integrated or not).