I cant see anything

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  1. oyotnas

    oyotnas Member

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    I havent played this game in a long time. So I decided to play again.
    But when I loaded it up. and entered the only active server. I hear the server join sound.I can hear gun shots but still I see the loading screen. I hit the ESC button the pause screen shows up. I have deleted. Re installed this game 4 times. And I have no idea what to do next. Any help would be great.
     
    oyotnas, Jul 18, 2011
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  2. Brutos

    Brutos Administrator Staff Member Moderator

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    try starting it with -autoconfig as startup paramter.
     
    Brutos, Jul 18, 2011
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  3. oyotnas

    oyotnas Member

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    nope didnt work.
     
    oyotnas, Jul 19, 2011
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  4. w00kie

    w00kie Mustachioed Mexican

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    mkay, what CPU and Gfx card do you use?

    Empires runs only on CPUs that support SSE2 and GPUs that support DirectX 9 or above since some patches ago.
     
    w00kie, Jul 19, 2011
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  5. Brutos

    Brutos Administrator Staff Member Moderator

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    it wouldnt go as far if he didnt have sse2 and dx9. It would stop working way before.
     
    Brutos, Jul 19, 2011
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  6. Trickster

    Trickster Retired Developer

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    IIRC that's what happened when you didn't have DX9.
     
    Trickster, Jul 19, 2011
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  7. oyotnas

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    Processor Information:
    Vendor: GenuineIntel
    Speed: 2992 Mhz
    2 logical processors
    1 physical processors
    HyperThreading: Supported
    FCMOV: Supported
    SSE2: Supported
    SSE3: Unsupported
    SSSE3: Unsupported
    SSE4a: Unsupported
    SSE41: Unsupported


    Video Card:
    Driver: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200

    DirectX Driver Name: nv4_disp.dll
    Driver Version: 6.14.11.7519
    DirectX Driver Version: 6.14.11.7519
    Driver Date: 16 May 2008
    Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
    Monitor Refresh Rate: 75 Hz
    DirectX Card: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
    VendorID: 0x10de
    DeviceID: 0x322
    Number of Monitors: 1
    Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
    No SLI or Crossfire Detected
    Primary Display Resolution: 1280 x 1024
    Desktop Resolution: 1280 x 1024
    Primary Display Size: 12.80" x 10.24" (16.38" diag)
    32.5cm x 26.0cm (41.6cm diag)
    Memory:
    RAM: 510 Mb

    well it says I have the SSE2 supported
     
    oyotnas, Jul 19, 2011
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  8. Brutos

    Brutos Administrator Staff Member Moderator

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    Your rig is ancient, try updating your gpu drivers, but that is really incredibly ancient.
     
    Brutos, Jul 19, 2011
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    Brutos Administrator Staff Member Moderator

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    Brutos, Jul 19, 2011
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  10. Trickster

    Trickster Retired Developer

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    Half a gb of ram and an FX 5200. I'm surprised you can even run solitaire to be quite honest, and I don't mean that offensively. That really is ancient.
     
    Trickster, Jul 19, 2011
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  11. oyotnas

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    Yeah none taken. I can run alot of games on here. This comp was made in 2001.
     
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    oyotnas, Jul 19, 2011
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  12. Beerdude26

    Beerdude26 OnThink(){ IsDownYet(); }

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    I think we also implicitly require SM 3.0, which it doesn't have
     
    Beerdude26, Jul 20, 2011
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  13. f1r3w4rr10r

    f1r3w4rr10r Modeler

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    and another client for the how low can you go config ;P
     
    f1r3w4rr10r, Jul 20, 2011
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  14. w00kie

    w00kie Mustachioed Mexican

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    when I still had a FX 5700 Ultra, over 8 years ago, I already ran into trouble (instant framedrop) when doing burn-outs in GTA:SA. And that was only one cheap particle effect :headshot:

    EDIT: Are you able to play TF2 propperly (including all the particles and blood)?
     
    w00kie, Jul 20, 2011
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  15. MOOtant

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    We don't require SM 3.0. There's dxlevel 90 check in rendering part. In Steam patch 1 there's check right at the start so it won't give black screen without saying anything.

    oyotnas: ensure you aren't using any tricks like setting DX (level) to lower than 9.0.
     
    MOOtant, Jul 20, 2011
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  16. McGyver

    McGyver Experimental Pedagogue

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    I'm sure you can play a lot of games from 2001. There are smartphones out there that have more processing power.
     
    McGyver, Jul 20, 2011
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