12-06-2004, 05:43 AM
I have Bloodlines, and am running it on an HP Pavilion notebook with 384 MB RAM (listed 512, but the 128 MB ATI Radeon 9000 IGP is shared memory, of course) on a 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 that cooks my desk surface nicely.
All in all, meets the requirements. And runs.
At first, I was (and am still, to a degree) plagued by stuttering framerates and audio play as the hard disk is accessing components in-game, and I will get an occassional crash whenever the bloodrat goes to feed or gets killed (I suspect as a result of the dramatic lighting change that occurs in either event). But it is playable, and isn't killing my computer.
The trick is I can't seem to get my Win XP to recognize the need nor locations for driver updates, and have been trying to download the update packages manually. The ATI driver update I downloaded isn't recognized, so I still have an out-of-date driver governing the game. Then again, the latest driver info makes no mention of any fixes for this particular game, which implies the latest drivers are not "late" enough.
I'll have to wait for a new driver update and/or Activision to release a patch in order to see if the crash goes bye-bye and the stutter drops away.
â Rhydderch Hael, Tremere fledgling.
All in all, meets the requirements. And runs.
At first, I was (and am still, to a degree) plagued by stuttering framerates and audio play as the hard disk is accessing components in-game, and I will get an occassional crash whenever the bloodrat goes to feed or gets killed (I suspect as a result of the dramatic lighting change that occurs in either event). But it is playable, and isn't killing my computer.
The trick is I can't seem to get my Win XP to recognize the need nor locations for driver updates, and have been trying to download the update packages manually. The ATI driver update I downloaded isn't recognized, so I still have an out-of-date driver governing the game. Then again, the latest driver info makes no mention of any fixes for this particular game, which implies the latest drivers are not "late" enough.
I'll have to wait for a new driver update and/or Activision to release a patch in order to see if the crash goes bye-bye and the stutter drops away.
â Rhydderch Hael, Tremere fledgling.
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