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Re: Call of duty 5 demo released last night
« Reply #45 on: October 30, 2008, 08:10:06 PM »
Yeah my game does not work but I dont belive it to be because of DX9. I reinstalled my DX9 application and it didnt solve my issue. I believe it's really because I'm attempting to use the 6800 Go card which has zero support from Alienware or Nvidia. They really dont care about driver support for the 6800 which sucks but in anycase I found the highest driver set I could use was 84.22 but even then so it's not running. I'll attempt to do DX9 again but I doubt it will fix my problem. Looks like this dinosaur just doesn't have the mustard that's all

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Re: Call of duty 5 demo released last night
« Reply #46 on: October 30, 2008, 08:17:26 PM »
I actually wasnt even suppose to have support for that. Luckily a few of the guys at Laptop2Go.com made a custom nv4 inf file to support the 6800 past 78.34 or w/e it's original release was. In anycase, i just dont think it's compatible with it 

On a positive note however, it does appear to be more stable in frame rates in CoD4 with the new update. I was chopping a good bit unfortunately in heavy gunfights. I was running around in the server and it seemed to be more stable. 
« Last Edit: October 30, 2008, 08:22:28 PM by F3ar0n »

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Re: Call of duty 5 demo released last night
« Reply #47 on: October 31, 2008, 04:42:21 AM »
I'm not having any trouble with my copy. I'm using an 8800gts and driver version 177.83
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Re: Call of duty 5 demo released last night
« Reply #48 on: October 31, 2008, 07:59:38 AM »
congrats dave u got this one right. now my game works...ty
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Re: Call of duty 5 demo released last night
« Reply #49 on: October 31, 2008, 08:10:31 AM »
I actually wasnt even suppose to have support for that. Luckily a few of the guys at Laptop2Go.com made a custom nv4 inf file to support the 6800 past 78.34 or w/e it's original release was. In anycase, i just dont think it's compatible with it 

On a positive note however, it does appear to be more stable in frame rates in CoD4 with the new update. I was chopping a good bit unfortunately in heavy gunfights. I was running around in the server and it seemed to be more stable. 
That sucks that they don't support the 6 series Go chips.  NVidia still supports the 7 series and I checked and my desktop 6600 will support the 178.24 drivers.  Sees strange that the go version wouldn't still be supported.
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Re: Call of duty 5 demo released last night
« Reply #50 on: October 31, 2008, 12:53:31 PM »
Dunno if anyone had this problem:

I couldn't change my GFX settings without CODWAW dropping me to the desktop.  The process was running but it never came back up.  So in order to change my grfx settings I did this:

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I have a workaround to change some settings:

The config file is here: C:\Documents and Settings\%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Activision\CoDWaWbeta\players\profiles\%your profile name%\config_mp.cfg

Open that file with a txt editor (preferrably notepad.exe)

You will have to search around for the settings you want. I found 'seta r_mode "1024x768" '. That allows you to change the resolution.

I have yet to find other settings such as AA (Mine was set to 4x initially which does not work to well with the lesser gt9500). So to change that, after I killed the process, the next time I ran it it wanted to start in safe mode, which I said yes. That reset to all the lowest values and that's how I changed the AA settings.

This could be the AA setting, but at AA being off the setting is confusing to me: seta r_aaSamples "1" . I am guessing that 1 = aa off but I am probably wrong. Hope this helps!

I posted that on the COD beta forum as well.  It seems some others are having that issue.
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Re: Call of duty 5 demo released last night
« Reply #51 on: October 31, 2008, 02:12:30 PM »
Actually there is a fix to alot of issues with video and CODWAW.  XFire.  The actual cause of my previous issue is Xfire.  Once I turned that off, I could change any video setting and it would restore correctly after the settings were changed.  There are a few reports on the CODWAW beta forums saying that closing Xfire completely solved some issues.
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Re: Call of duty 5 demo released last night
« Reply #52 on: October 31, 2008, 03:43:35 PM »
It installed and played on mine perfectly when I had Xfire turned on and running.
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Re: Call of duty 5 demo released last night
« Reply #53 on: October 31, 2008, 04:38:41 PM »
yea im not a big fan of xfire.  But i haven't used it in a long time maybe its better now!

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Re: Call of duty 5 demo released last night
« Reply #54 on: October 31, 2008, 05:23:20 PM »
The 6 series was the first series they really decided to come out with powerful GPU chipsets for laptops. I remember the M7700 Alienwares were the first ones to really implement it with the 6800 Go. They later released a cheaper laptop with 6600 go's and eventually 6800 Ultra's and so on up to 7800 Go cards (and beyond now I guess). But I guess because it was first real series it hasn't been supported well at all

Also CoD5 beta is still not working for me. I've done everything everyone has posted to a t. Again I just dont think it's really supported at this time. However one would question even thinking about picking this game up if there's so many problems in the demo. How stable is the main release going to be in a few weeks? I suspect a lot of patches

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Re: Call of duty 5 demo released last night
« Reply #55 on: October 31, 2008, 08:58:01 PM »
It installed and played on mine perfectly when I had Xfire turned on and running.

Well, that was the issue with my setup.  As soon as I quit Xfire, it could change gfx settings with no problems.
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Re: Call of duty 5 demo released last night
« Reply #56 on: October 31, 2008, 09:27:31 PM »
It installed and played on mine perfectly when I had Xfire turned on and running.

Well, that was the issue with my setup.  As soon as I quit Xfire, it could change gfx settings with no problems.

Well I shouldn't say that. Back in the days of the original COD. I could never install it because xfire was enabled. It kept giving me an error. I exit out of xfire and it works fine. I believe it still does that every once in awhile.
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Re: Call of duty 5 demo released last night
« Reply #57 on: November 03, 2008, 08:26:13 AM »
However one would question even thinking about picking this game up if there's so many problems in the demo.

Even after playing it, I'd still question picking it up.

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Re: Call of duty 5 demo released last night
« Reply #58 on: November 03, 2008, 11:14:14 AM »
However one would question even thinking about picking this game up if there's so many problems in the demo.

Even after playing it, I'd still question picking it up.

I am talking about the MP beta.  Isn't the demo just SP?
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Re: Call of duty 5 demo released last night
« Reply #59 on: November 03, 2008, 11:27:30 AM »
I think that's what he meant. A bunch of us, including Czar, played the MP beta on Saturday. It was kind of bleh (to me anyways). The maps were good but that's about it. I hated the weapons. The graphics also didn't look as good.