System crash when playing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater

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ian27

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Hello all,

I just bought a new eMac this week (1.25 ghz / 512 RAM / OS 10.3.3), and have been reinstalling all my old software etc onto this new machine. I noticed when I looked through the applications that it comes bundled with a few games one of which was Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. However, every time I open the game it always crashes my system within a few minutes and force quit is disabled so I have to switch it off at the power button and back on again.

Does anybody know why this might be crashing? I thought if the game comes bundled with the computer that it should work swimmingly. The game easily meets the system requirements so I don't think it's a processor or RAM problem. What else could it be?

Any advice would be gratefully received. I'm not particularly bothered about playing this game, I'm just curious to know why it is causing such a problem.

Ian
 
Hmm, not sure. Apparently the eMac comes with an ATI Radeon 9200 graphics processor with 32MB of dedicated Double Data Rate (DDR) video memory - whatever that means?!? The game requires 3D Graphics Acceleration (minimum of ATI Radeon or NVIDIA GeForce 2 series card) plus 32 MB of video memory (VRAM).

So does this meet the requirements? I'm not sure.

Do you also know where I can find the details of my graphics card in my systems profiler?

Thanks.

Ian
 
you can find them in hardware, PCI AGP cards (for sure if you're running panther, but should be the same in jaguar...)... at a first sight, your graphic card is ok, check at ati.com for the details... maybe you can just vary some settings... but in my gaming experience, having the minimum graphic card memory required isn't the best thing for a game...
 
Thanks for the reply. My system profiler says that my card is ATY, RV280?!?

So do you think that it is possible that this could do what is crashing my system? I can't seem to find any way of varying the settings.

Thanks.

Ian
 
I'm quite sure of that, i can't see any other problem... i don't know if in OS X is possible, but maybe you can find a way to enlarge the space of th HDD that can be used by the graphic card... in win xp, and with an nvidia, i found the way to do... for the details of the card, you should read some lines below the one you've pasted here...
 
Thanks for the prompt reply. I took a look at the other details of the card using the method you described but to be honest the details mean gobbledegook to me really.

I am glad that that is probably the answer to the problem though, it certainly explains something. It just seems a bit strange that Apple would include software with the computer that is likely to be problematic. I guess it is more about sales than performance.
 
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