Krom wrote:If the video card had gone out, the system should have crashed with it. Was there a lose cable somewhere? What did the power light on the monitor show?

guess what? the damn cable was loose! How the hell? LOL I KNOW I screwed the thing in there the last time I had it apart. gahhh

Ok, so out of the blue, my monitor shuts off on me. I still here the sound from my game (was fraggin the hell outta some folks in Quake Teamfortress... yes, I'm very nostalgic lol). So it cuts off, I still hear the sound, and my computer is still running, etc... you get the idea. Well, of course ...

logitech makes good stuff. I have a logitech surround speaker system, it blows away the 3-pc Polk Audio system I had. As for the problems with the mice, I have this issue at work from time to time (I run a waterjet machine - like on American Chopper). Garnet (sand from the waterjet stream) gets ...

my Windows XP is paid for
I gave up the pirated O/S's long ago.

the hotfix worked.

Maybe this helps.. hmmm, a windows hotfix, and registry stuff too, gahhh I hate messing with the registry! LOL Well, I may try this. Funny thing is, I had installed another game before (an older one, can't remember what game it was) and had this same problem. To fix it, the developer had a patch ...

I tried both settings (DirectX and OpenGL). Right now, I am using OpenGL (with the affinity changed to use CPU-0). I'm wondering if I need to get that \"unofficial\" update for D3? I grabbed the 1.4 patch. Should I get the other as well? Maybe it has something that fixes the problem? In either case ...

Those are all amazing systems, I am impressed, and almost embarrased to tell about mine LOL but here goes: •AMD Athlon™ 64 3800+ •250GB SATA hard drive •Extra storage: 2 additional 120GB SATA hard drives •1GB of DDR memory •Dual DVD drives (one DVDRW, one reg. DVD/CDROM) •9-in-1 memory card reader •C ...

Krom wrote:Force the D3 processor affinity in task manager and see if it helps.

That did it... thanks! Worked like a charm and I was able to use full detail and 1024X768 res. Very cool.

Hi, I'm new here. My name is Mike, it's nice to meet you all. :) I haven't played Descent 3 in quite a while. And as you can imagine, I have a much different PC now than I had back when I played it. Now, back in the day, the system I played this on was awesome for this game, and I think I only had a ...