toolfan Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 I noticed quite a lot of people so far have had a lot of issues with Starwars Galaxies. Most noteably are hardware issues. From graphical glitchs to the game just not being able to run because they dont have the right hardware. So I decided to put together a list of help sites, and other material that might be able to help you out in getting SWG working correctly on your end. Then all SOE has to do is get SWG working on their end. First off lets start with a list of Graphic cards that will or should work good with SWG. Also included are the prices for each card as listed on http://www.pricewatch.com $482 - RADEON 9800 Pro 256MB $298 - RADEON 9800 Pro 128MB $265 - RADEON 9700 Pro $203 - RADEON 9700 128MB $180 - RADEON 9600 Pro Ultra $135 - RADEON 9600 Pro 128MB $133 - RADEON 9500 128MB $120 - RADEON 9500 64MB $73 - RADEON 9200 128MB $63 - RADEON 9200 64MB $72 - RADEON 9100 128MB $59 - RADEON 9100 64MB $66 - RADEON 9000 Pro 128MB $59 - RADEON 9000 Pro 64MB $52 - RADEON 9000 $62 - RADEON 9000 128MB $52 - RADEON 9000 64MB $504 - GeForce FX 5900 256MB $388 - GeForce FX 5900 128MB $156 - GeForce FX 5600 256MB $135 - GeForce FX 5600 128MB $63 - GeForce FX 5200 128MB $57 - GeForce FX 5200 64MB $138 - GeForce4 TI 4800 $167 - GeForce4 TI 4600 $229 - GeForce4 TI 4600 8x AGP $107 - GeForce4 TI 4200 128MB $86 - GeForce4 TI 4200 64MB $93 - GeForce4 MX 460 $64 - GeForce4 MX 440 8x AGP 128MB $44 - GeForce4 MX 440 8x AGP 64MB $50 - GeForce4 MX 440 4x 128MB $37 - GeForce4 MX 440 4x 64MB $44 - GeForce4 MX 420 $89 - GeForce3 TI 500 $87 - GeForce3 TI 200 128MB $63 - GeForce3 TI 200 64MB As you can see these are all made by Nvidia or ATI. So you will either be getting your drivers from ATI's website or Nvidia's. So here are the webpages for the drivers. Nvidia drivers for windows XP and windows 2000: http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=winxp-2k_44.03 Nvidia drivers for windows 98 and windows ME: http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=winxp-2k_44.03 Driver page for ATI cards: http://mirror.ati.com/support/driver.html Now you will need Dirext X 9.0. If you already have SWG and that is why you are looking at this thread in the first place then you already have Direct X 9.0, its included on the CD and will ask if you want to install it during the installation. It even detects if you have a outdated version and tells you during the install. If by some strange reason, like from a act of god, a jawa, or a french soldier insulting you from behind a castle wall prevents you from installing Direct X 9.0 from the SWG CD here is where you can download it for free. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a19bed22-0b25-4e5d-a584-6389d8a3dad0&displaylang=en Now lets talk about ram. 256mb of ram is acceptable, but 512mb is idel for SWG. and if you have more then 512mb that is even better. Anything under 256mb though and you are going to want to look at upgrading ram. check out http://www.pricewatch.com and look for some ram there. besure to also read your motherboard manual and get in touch with your computer manufacturer to make sure you get the correct ram for your motherboard. Next part is simple, your CPU. For the athlon you are going want a minimal a athlon XP 1600, the higher the better. for the intel users you are going to want a pentium 4 1.6ghz CPU or better. The faster the CPU the better performance you are going to get. A lot of the current highend CPU's are dropping in price very quickly to make room for the new 64-bit processors. the new G5 macs use 64-bit CPU's and they are running at over 4ghz. I think I pretty much covered everything. If you need to upgrade this is my recommended list of what you should buy is in this thread right here. SWG is a very system demanding game, and if you dont have the right hardware you aren't going to have fun with it and that would suck. So do your research before you buy the game and make sure everything is up to par and ready to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-=ReApEr=- Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 Good Job, if my current Graphic card doesn't work. I will know where to come and look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobaWP Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 Yeah nice work that will really come in handy for people. My card didnt work so i had to order a new one. I think any card Gforce2 and up has the transform and lighting that you need. I got my card at http://www.tigerdirect.com for pretty cheap. Just another site to help those people who have the same problem i have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphy Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 Bump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deft Aklin Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 Toolfan, Great post. It's members like you that make my job easier. In fact, this gets stickied for a little while at least. This is the productive and contributing kinds of posts I always talk about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-=ReApEr=- Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 Sidious is getting used to his mod powers now. Good to see as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deft Aklin Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 Yeah, normally I'd have yelled at Delphy, but this one deserved a free bump. I would have probably missed it otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-=ReApEr=- Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 Heh, agreed. Great post it is, these are the members who really make the community what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00M-187 Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 I have an Nvidia Geforce Ti 4600 P3 450 256 ram,, Do you think the game will run on my machine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toolfan Posted June 27, 2003 Author Share Posted June 27, 2003 the CPU is bottlenecking your graphics card. that GeForce 4 card I believe is over 400mhz faster then your CPU. I think the game might have a slight chance of running because of the Geforce card, but you should seriously look into upgrading that CPU. the CPU is going to prevent you from playing even with that fast video card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malibuD327 Posted June 28, 2003 Share Posted June 28, 2003 So i noticed this post on this message board...(Im new here! :-)and i got the game and can log in but i can barely move at all! (it sucks) everything boggs down and it makes the game no fun wahtsoever...but i read this and i feel a lil bit better cuz i know i might need an upgadge...Im runnin a P4 1700 MHz 1.69 GHz with 256 MB's of ram...and i got NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX/MX...whats my problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toolfan Posted June 28, 2003 Author Share Posted June 28, 2003 It would be your Geforce 2 card, other then that you are fine. For now until you can get a better graphics card, lower your detail, turn off things like shadow effects and that will improve performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malibuD327 Posted June 28, 2003 Share Posted June 28, 2003 hey thanks alot but one more question i got a decent amount of money leftover(yay for me!) so what kind of card would u recomend with a 100-150 bucks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mon Cal Posted June 29, 2003 Share Posted June 29, 2003 I have a weird problem. While i'm playing and doing whatever, the screen goes blue, words and letter pop up, the the computer shuts down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toolfan Posted June 29, 2003 Author Share Posted June 29, 2003 Originally posted by malibuD327 hey thanks alot but one more question i got a decent amount of money leftover(yay for me!) so what kind of card would u recomend with a 100-150 bucks? I recommend the Radeon 9600 pro 128mb video card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gustable Posted June 29, 2003 Share Posted June 29, 2003 Originally posted by Mon Cal I have a weird problem. While i'm playing and doing whatever, the screen goes blue, words and letter pop up, the the computer shuts down. SOunds Like THE "Blue Screen of Death". I haven't experienced it yet on XP, but it goes all the way back to win 3.11. It is usually caused by incompatibility problems. Check and make sure all of you're device drivers are the newest and loaded properly (hardware manager).. If you've recently added any new hardware these things will happen. I recommend XP. I've got a millenium falcon of jury-rigged parts and my old 98 was pretty sketchy, but xp took it all in stride, and automatically too! Sorry for the personal rant , I usually am a MShater and a linux nut, but I guess thats why. Wow I'm so shocked bythe ms acheivement, I can't think straight. longwinded. whew. -goldplate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius Posted June 29, 2003 Share Posted June 29, 2003 for those people that are having graphics problems on laptops and are running radons, here is a link to the soe forums where a solution is posted to fix the problem. http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=Techsupport&message.id=9474 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-=ReApEr=- Posted June 29, 2003 Share Posted June 29, 2003 I would suggest Geforces for anyone looking to get new cards, and you can't go wrong with the 128mb range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malibuD327 Posted June 29, 2003 Share Posted June 29, 2003 Guys for real you all have been a huge help, especially you toolfan! But one more thing...if i also wanted to get some more ram as well, can you reccomend anything cheap(some people say i could get another 256 for 50 some odd dollars), so i could get my card and some ram to really stack up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toolfan Posted June 29, 2003 Author Share Posted June 29, 2003 As long as you have 512mb of ram or more you are good to go. So yeah go ahead and buy that other 256mb of ram, it will really help. And the new video card to, with those two things put together you should have little to no frame rate problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-=ReApEr=- Posted June 29, 2003 Share Posted June 29, 2003 Try http://www.overclockers.co.uk/ or Dabs.com for cheap ram and pc parts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mon Cal Posted June 30, 2003 Share Posted June 30, 2003 Ok, i looked at all the hardware installed. I had a wireless car bus adapter installed twice. I unistalled one of them and rebooted my computer. Then it said new hardware installed and i still have two in there. The blue screen still appears. I have windows xp. My dad thinks that because D-Link Airplus Wireless Carbus Adapter hasnt been passed as compatable with windows xp, it may be messing our computer up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SplnterCellJedi Posted June 30, 2003 Share Posted June 30, 2003 Hello im new but i want to make sure my PC can handle this game so here are some of my specs. P4 2.4 GHz 80 Gig Hard Drive 512 DDR Ram GeForce FX 5200 128 MB Card i will be adding another 512 DDR. also another question is will the extra 512 i will be adding help and in what way? thanks alot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toolfan Posted June 30, 2003 Author Share Posted June 30, 2003 Your computer is perfect as is. you can run the game with all the detail settings maxed with no problems. And adding another 512mb of ram will make the game run even better and faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SplnterCellJedi Posted June 30, 2003 Share Posted June 30, 2003 thanks toolfan just wanted to make sure i'll be getting this game in about a week give or take. i like this forum community they seem decent to say the least,and im glad to be a part of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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