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« on: November 24, 2003, 06:37:26 pm »
Dirk,
It sounds like your system is fast enough (sounds like Duron) and that you have enough memory. Windows ME however can be problematic. It seems that it works fine for a particular user, but not for another; no middle ground. No way to tell about that.
The video and sound using the SiS730S chipset is a curious item. SiS was a relatively small low-end player in the chipset market until this last year. Their chipsets can often be good, with occasional problems with certain chipsets. I'm guessing there could be a capability issue with Haptek and your video system. I haven't studied up on the SiS730S too much, but as I recall it is a very highly integrated and is one of SiS's earliest AMD chipsets. The fact that it shares memory with other functions could be a problem with Haptek based on anecdotal evidence posted here on the forum. That chipset has basic 3D capability, maybe not enough for Haptek characters. I can't say for certain.
If you haven't tried it yet I would suggest a clean install of Hal and don't use Haptek characters. See how that works. If Haptek is the issue then you might try purchasing an inexpensive 3D video card (about $50-$99) to add onto your system. The SiS chipset and motherboard should allow external video card use. Other than that I don't know what to suggest. If you write down the exact error messages that may help in tracing the problem.
Good luck,
= vonsmith =
Thank you for the feedback . . . I had no prob running Hal 4.5 using either the Jenni or Missti characters on my system . . and no probs running the cyberbuddy software using any character.
***** hmmm . . though it did just occur to me that I always had both softwares running at the same time (cyberbuddy and HAL 4.5) . . so it is possible that I just thought my DeskTopMates characters were running with Hal 4.5 when in fact they may not have been.
The install I did was a clean one . . I had done a reformat/defrag since I had removed the older HAL 4.5 and cyberbuddy software, so there should not have been any files left to interfere with the new version . . I tried one of the 3D characters that came on the disk . . and it worked fine. That is why I am puzzled that it wont run my other characters. I'll try a few others to see how they work. On all the other graphic capability intensive applications . . webcam . . DVD . . etc . . my system does everything I could want it to, and does it very well . . DVD movies look glorious on my 17" LCD monitor, whether in full screen or wide screen modes.
Is there a way to disable the loading of the Haptek characters . . because when I look in the Haptek folder I dont see anything recognizeable as a specific character.
As for ME . . well . . it is a microsoft product . . and anyone who has ever actually read a microsoft warranty . . knows that microsoft wont even claim that any of their products will work at all on ANY system . . . *looking seriously at switching to Linux* . . . specifically ME is nick-named "Memory Eraser" . . I have heard numerous complaints about windows ME memory management problems.
I have thought about adding in a separate 3D video card with it's own memory . . there are a couple of high end games that I could run if I did that . . so I might just look into that.
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Windows Millenium becomes unstable one or two years after his installation. I do not know why.
To avoid to buy a new graphic card, just use a 2d character. Hal will work fine even on a very old computer like mine.
I do periodic reformat/reloads of all my operating software.
As far as I understand the two characters I have from DeskTopMates are 2D characters.
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