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09-26-2012, 05:14 PM
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Hi king_spoon_ian!
Might be worth posting full system specs as, irrespective of your OS (although I do think it's worth running Windows 7 over XP), you may still struggle to get CoD to work - your GPX for example I believe has 512mb VRAM which is a little on the low side - a minimum of 1GB VRAM seems to be what's required for CoD. [EDIT] when the game came out I was running a system with Windows 7, 4GB RAM and a GPX card with 512mb VRAM, and whilst it did load, it struggled in game with performance. Last edited by Bounder!; 09-26-2012 at 05:21 PM. 
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09-26-2012, 05:18 PM
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The game itself actually runs fine, once it's loaded (my card actually has 320mb, so even less!). It's just the fact the game takes so incredibly long to initialise that I'm trying to fix : ) As I mentioned, it takes upwards of five minutes to even reach the menu from the desktop - there must be something odd going on here. I wonder if it is anything to do with the OS? I would move to Vista, or 7, but I just can't get on with the interface - using my PC mostly for work, the way folders and the basic organisational side of the OS has changed for Vista and 7 (to start with, the lack of an up arrow for going up a directory in folders) puts me off - I just can't work as efficiently on Vista as on XP (not that I haven't tried - I have a laptop that runs Vista), and so I've stuck with, and am planning on sticking with XP for as long as I can manage 
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09-26-2012, 05:35 PM
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Never had problems loading the game even on my old system and I don't know to be honest what could be causing the problem. It would be very useful for others if you post full system specs, including what hard drive you are running and how much RAM you have.
Might be worth checking your RAM load on idle and then what it is when loading the game. Do you have many programs running in the background? Also, how clean is your hard drive (is it near capacity, has it been defragged)? [EDIT] I know your pain regarding Vista/Windows 7 layout, I run my Windows 7 in XP mode which helps as I too hate what they did with the layout! Last edited by Bounder!; 09-26-2012 at 05:40 PM.
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#4
09-26-2012, 05:43 PM
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CPU - AMD FX-6100 GPU - GeForce 8800 GTS 320mb RAM - 4 GB (3.25GB usable) DDR-something, not sure what speed it is, and I'm not sure how to check? Hard Drive - 250 GB Maxtor SATA the game's installed on - XP's on a separate disk. There's not too much free space left, but enough breathing room. Might try switching it to my terabyte HDD to see what happens. Let me know if there's anything else important I've missed out! It'd odd. Plenty of ram seems to be free when the program's starting - it's not like it's having to clear things out to put CoD in, as nothing else is running.
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#5
09-26-2012, 09:17 PM
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you can try booting your pc using the 3 gb switch in the boot.ini. it will change the ram allocation more for the game and less for the operating system. i kinda forgot how to do it. something like run msconfi in the run box of the start icon in the lower left corner. then select modified boot.ini. then you gotta copy the original boot.ini and modifiy it with the 3 gb switch and save it and...blah. just google it. anyway you get it set up, then reboot your computer and it will prompt you how you want to boot up, either standard way or the 3gb switch way. so you select the latter and off you go.
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