gordonramp Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 So although it's 3ghz I felt it was time to move on from my aging XP single core Dell Dimension Desktop and build myself a nice new machine. All I have kept is the 4gb of DDR2 ram and the 3month old 9800gt(1gb) video card. The new machine has a modest dual core, AMD Athlon x2 7750 2.7ghz and the motherboard is an ASRock N68PV-GS. I bought a CoolerMaster case for it and put a Thermaltake Silent CPU fan on the Cpu and cooling fans front and back to give some through flow. The Power supply is a 400watt CoolerMaster PSU. For an operating system I got serious and bought Windows 7 professional 32. I divided up a new 500gb hard-drive into two partitions. One for storage and one for the OS. All installed well. Including Virtual XP which I downloaded from Microsoft. Everything runs smooth and quick on my 22inch AOC screen. So far so good... Time to check out the Leadwerks Engine and the programs I have made with it. Nothing runs. Not even in Virtual XP. I have oalinst.exe installed. Have installed 'Oblivion' and wandered through the first level with no problems. Do the Hardware/Software savvy amongst you know why this might be..? Quote AMD Athlon x2 7750 2.7ghz, 6gb ddr2 ram, Galaxy9800GT 1gig ddr2 video card, Windows 7,64. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cassius Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 psu seems a bit weak for a 9800 gt but that shouldn't be the problem. Quote amd quad core 4 ghz / geforce 660 ti 2gb / win 10 Blender,gimp,silo2,ac3d,,audacity,Hexagon / using c++ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 That's a very powerful machine. Have you installed graphics drivers, or are you just using whatever Windows did automatically? You might also need to run the program "as the administrator". Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordonramp Posted February 28, 2010 Author Share Posted February 28, 2010 Thanks, problem solved. I went to the Galaxytech website and found the correct drivers. Very pleased. Anyway it's an opportunity to tell about my new system.. Windows 7 looks pretty good to me.. I've yet to totally explore it but it seems a step up from Vista. As they say, it's what Vista was supposed to be. Quote AMD Athlon x2 7750 2.7ghz, 6gb ddr2 ram, Galaxy9800GT 1gig ddr2 video card, Windows 7,64. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 What is Galaxytech? Why wouldn't you go to www.nvidia.com for drivers? Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordonramp Posted February 28, 2010 Author Share Posted February 28, 2010 oh, well I see your point, Galaxytech are the manufacturers of the Graphics card in my machine. I know I could go to Nvidia.. 6 of 1 and half a dozen of the other really. Quote AMD Athlon x2 7750 2.7ghz, 6gb ddr2 ram, Galaxy9800GT 1gig ddr2 video card, Windows 7,64. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L B Posted March 7, 2010 Share Posted March 7, 2010 Windows 7 installs default drivers for GPUs, but these are the bare minimum to display pixels. You should always go to the device manager and choose to update your GPU drivers. Windows 7 will then find the right drivers from nVidia and download them automatically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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