new computer/old games

Hi, I'm new to forums, and tinking with computers in general but I've a new computer with the quad core and duel 8800gtx cards..plays nicely but on an old fav game (nolf1) it wont render with sli enabled and plays badly with 1 card enabled, the nolf has d3d renderer, i noticed in downloads here @ MG programs for slowing down cpu's...is that the course and how easy to undo a change like slowing down?
any advice on newcomputers/old games would help im sure : ))

 

whats nofl1? its probably something with the new drivers for the DX10 cards but who knows

 

thanks Viper
nolf is an old game with drivers for dx7..it plays with dx9 card(geforce 6200-and up i assume from other players there) but single cards only i guess...yes new computer is ready for dx10 and nolf plays with 1 8800 gtx card, but badly, and not at all with both cards enabled...hmmm..maybe some old games get left behind..sad but true? lol. I saw in dowloads freeware for clocking down cpu to play old games...have clocked down the cards themselves but no fix..anyway thanks, and as new here was that setup and mark03 score yours? nice

 

yea i dunno how the new chip architecture of the DX10 cards will run with DX7 games...Im guessing that its just a compatibility issue. maybe run it in compatibility mode for what, windows 98? other than that i cant think of anything

thanks for the props, yea its mine. i gotta push it as far as i can until i build a new system lol. proc at 3.7ghz now, woohoo!

Welcome to MGs

 

are you in vista or XP? If Vista, then you are out of luck. If XP, then try running it in Compatibility mode for 98.

 

Re: thanks Viper and Tollhouse..

yeah I got it to run! spent about 2hrs trying every various setting but finally came through playing in Sli now. What it was was both the Nvidia controlpanel and a video optimizer program needing to be configured for nolf game especially. Anyway all games now play great! : )) I know what you mean about pushing-this comp is a quad at 2.66ghz and ran mark5 at 16847 but to overclock...makes my head spin..LOLOL And yes it's XP..i dunno but vista probably just sucks up more processing then it's worth?..xp is good enough. Been fun learning about computers so far and thanks for the helps : )

 

just curious what settings did you exactly change?

 

Re: whelp...

..something to do with enabling verticle sync in opengl and direct 3d and use 32bit Z buffer in 3d and force anisotropic filtering and force full scene antialaising...lol-what all that means i dunno, and why it works like that and not in say..disabling verticle sync in direct3d..i dunno..also game itself controls need to enable trilinear filter..and not that i actually REMEMBER any of that-have it written down in case i lose settings! lolol