please help

[lute]

hi

i have a 1.8 GHz DELL c840 latitude laptop with 528 K RAM and an nvidia geforce4 440 video card. i installed the game and it runs extremely slowly so it is unplayable. there is a 2-second delay for everything, cant even use the mouse to scroll.

i read in the troubleshooting guide that i should install the latest drivers - which i found in the DELL site and installed. this did not fix the problem. anyone have any suggestions?

thanks

[Madmatt]

Dell may not be hosting the most current drivers. There was a bug in some older ones which exhibited extreme slowdowns in various games.

Grab the newer drivers directly from www.nvidia.com (http://www.nvidia.com) instead or, you might want to use a set of older drivers which I still feel are the best performing ones for your card. They are version 30.82 and can be found in the Archives area of the Nvidia page. The Archive page can be accessed once you select your video card and OS type in the Driver section.

Madmatt

[lute]

hi - thanks for the advice. here is what ive found:

the laptop uses an nvidia geforce4 440 go card. it is not supported in the nvidia site, only in the dell site.

the new drivers downloadable are the v.42.58, a03. these were the ones i downloaded, and made the game unplayably slow. i then downloaded the previous version, the v.28.35 a02 drivers, and now the game runs normally.

thanks again for the help