Okay, I know I said I have no more rants....but I have a new one...
Why does it take SO MUCH to play ONE game?
My husband and daughter bought me CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder for mybirthday. We installed it, and it wouldn't start.So, my husband uninstalled and reinstalled about six times, and finallywe came to terms with the fact that we may be missing something andneeded to just call UBI (the game's company) when they were open onMonday.
So, I called them...they went over the system requirements...and toldme that we didn't have the correct (read: recent enough) video card inthe computer. So, we go out the next day and buy one of thelisted required video cards. It's now installed (thankgoodness I have a fairly computer savvy husband), but for some reason,the computer froze upon restarting. So, he figured out thatwe needed to plug the monitor into the new video card. Startsup fine...but then the game STILL won't start. ARGH!!!!
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Okay, so today I call the dang UBI place again, and this time I findout that yes, we now have the correct system requirements...BUT we haveto "disable the onboard graphics chipset" on the BIOS. Calledmy husband...he said he did that. Called Microsoft so theycould walk me through it...they said, Sure...for $59.WHAT?!
Okay, so now we're totallying at $30 for the game $70 for the videocard. I am NOT willing to pay another $60 to Microsoft forsomething they should just DO for their dang customers!!:growl:
So, I try to find out online how to "disable the onboard graphicschipset"...can't find a single site that has a guide to how to doit. I call my husband, he tries to walk me through it...butwe're now thoroughly confused, and he's going to try calling a morecomputer-savvy friend of his...that happens to be the flakiest personon earth, and probably won't get back to him for another week, becausehe's just like that.:sigh
So, we're kinda stuck. We've now spent about $100 for agame...and STILL cannot play it.:angryrant You have NO IDEAhow eager I am to play this game...to see how good I would be atsolving a murder mystery (even though it IS just a game...I'm stillVERY interested in seeing how good I would be in-game at this).
Argh...:banghead
So...if any of you know how to "disable the onboard graphics chipset,"please enlighten me...or if any of you know what could be wrong, pleaselet me know that as well. This is so frustrating...I almoststarted crying earlier at the stupidity of it all. We cannotreturn the game because the policy of the store we bought it at won'tlet you return an opened game...so we're stuck trying to figure out howto get the dang thing working...or possibly giving UBI heck until theygive our money back.
Hugs to all,
Frustrated Rosie* :grumpy
Edited to add: also posting this as a new Off-Topic thread to see if someone can help me with it.
