What kind of graphics card you got?

I'd try get hold on an e-mail address of forum for EA customer support and let them know the problem for a possible solution.

Sorry missed that the first read through.

Got the latest drivers for the card?
Tried playing the first campaign again to see if thats working?

Sounds like quite an odd problem.

Yeah you would think it would support the latest drivers. You checked for any possible patches on the site?

Silly old EA - I'd take/send it back to where you got it explaining the problem of it not working to get your money back - not really a great game compared to some others.

From what you describe it sounds like quote a low level crash if the signal to the monitor is eventually cutting out.  It could be for whatever reason the graphics drivers are crashing.  What I'd be tempted to do is try something like drivercleaner and then do a fresh reinstall of the drivers.

A brief look around suggests turning off post processing in the config as well, guess you've tried this?

Just an update to this MOH problem. Thought I'd try Garin's suggestion about post processing - set at simple so changed to off. Ran MOH last night. Loaded EA screen, bombed at menu screen, bombed machine - then began a most bizarre evening. Switched off machine, turned on and coloured code streaming down the screen - 10 month old graphics card fried!!! Re-installed spare card - no internet, no nothing!!! Finally sorted and all OK by midnight, MOH definately uninstalled.
Question - can a game fry a graphics card?
Because that is what it appears. Bioshock ran like a dream, and yes you could say the card may have been failing - but it's bizarre. Had cards fail before, but not like this.
All sorted now, installed new BFG Geforce 7900GS OC tonight. I'm not going to tempt fate and re-install MOH Airborne for love nor money.

Thanks to all

Dragonlance wrote:
> Question - can a game fry a graphics card?
> Because that is what it appears. Bioshock ran like a dream, and
> yes you could say the card may have been failing - but it's
> bizarre. Had cards fail before, but not like this.

Its not impossible, but its not likely either.  A game has fairly limited access to a graphics card really.  Exposure is limited to what the graphics drivers and (in windows) what directx allows.  So there arent too many opportunities to do major damage that wont be caught by either of them.  I know both Bioshock and Airborne use the unreal 3 engine but I imagine Airborne was just stressing the card in a way that Bioshock doesnt.
I can relate a similar tale in fact.  My gfx card is on the way out too.  Even though my PSU is fine the card seems incapable of drawing enough power from it.  When I benchmark the card, it posts results something like a third of what it should do.  Yet I can still run Bioshock at details levels and framerates that are normal for my card.  Unreal tournment 3 (same game engine again)doesnt run at all either.  And I've no doubt some day soon I'll try a game that'll make the card keel over permanently.

> All sorted now, installed new BFG Geforce 7900GS OC tonight. I'm
> not going to tempt fate and re-install MOH Airborne for love nor
> money.

Hey, at least your card is still under warranty.  Nows the time to try it. :)

Thanks Garin for your wise words - much appreciated. One reason that I was able to replace the card so quickly was because I went out and bought it - as a result of trying the warranty!!!

Spent 3/4hr on the phone to MicroDirect, who supplied the INNO3D card. Finally was asked for card's serial number. Not bad, but card at home me at work!! Never mind, Returns Dept would send email requesting number - not yet they haven't. On receipt of Returns number, I can, at my own cost, return it to them and they will send it to INNO3D in Taiwan for repair or replacement - about 4 weeks!!!

You can now perhaps see why I bought a new one. This warranty doesn't seem to be worth the paper it's written on!!!

Any way, happy now - got my right arm back...ha ha

> The demo is really nice, quite immersive.  Not sure if its not
> over scripted though.

I downloaded the demo from xbox live it was rubbish!!!!!!!!!

MOH is still using the PhysX library though even without the card.  PhysX and Havok are just 2 different solutions to the same problem.  The difference is that Aegia offers hardware acceleration of its library as well. 
PhysX is quite popular to use because theres no licensing fee attached to using it unless you want the source code (they're trying to encourage adoption of their hardware of course).

As far as PC games go its the price you pay for ever increasing complexity really.  Its virtually impossible to test a PC game anymore to the point that you can say with certainty that it'll work on every hardware/software configuration and/or that every gameplay combination has been explored.

However I think its fair comment that the ability to patch games encourages some publishers to push games out the door a bit quicker than they should be.

Its the components in your machine that have PSU requirements not the games.  If you have a 8800GTX for instance and you try to run Crysis with it.  Its somewhat implicit that your PSU is capable of powering it.  I dont think its the job of the game publishers to make sure your machine is capable of powering all the components in it.

Even if you did want to say its the responsibility of game developers to state PSU needs, how would you do it?  Every computer has different power needs.  I've got 4 hard drives in my machine at the moment, any minimum PSU requirements would be meaningless because you cant factor in my HDD power requirements.

Umm, the minimum specs are given on the assumption that if you meet them, you also have a powerful enough PSU to support those components running at their potential.

Like Garin said, you can't just give a blanket estimate of how much power it'll require because it'll vary somewhat between basically equivalent (in terms of performance) components, there's too many combinations of hardware and it's further dependant upon things completely unrelated to the hardware the game's most interested by. Kind of rough but you get the point.

Thanks to both of you, fully understood and won't ask daft questions again - you've both been extremely understanding of my ignorance and most descriptive and explanatory of the requirements and restrictions within machines - many thanks. PS MoHA last two missions are awesome.

To you all

MERRY CHRISTMAS and  A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR

Enjoy

Thanks Garin, you've probably hit the nail on the head, so to speak - the old PSU was probably to blame all along - this new one is stormin! Definately arctic weather around the old legs. Merry Christmas.