Train Simulator

[Tobs]

I have a packard Bell Laptop(only 9 months old) i loaded microsoft train simulator but when i try to play it...it shuts down the computor and tells me i have an error with my graphics device or something,this comes up on a blue screen then the computer shuts down competely-the display adaptor is S3 graphics Twister K+ S3Hotkey,some reference of this comes up before the laptop knocks off, I've reduced the hardware acceleration to none, i've defraged the Hard Drive i've even done a system restore to see if it was something i messed up ages ago. i've been through the troubleshooting...any Suggestions?

[LeMarchand]

Have you tried updating your graphics drivers? I had a similar problem with a game, and this fixed it.

[Tobs]

yep i did try doing this, updated it through microsoft website-upgraded to latest direct X or something, can't quite remember-still ha no joy-whats even more annoying is that my litlle brother bought an add on for the game and that won't work...needless to say I'm not his fave person at the mo

[j2buttonsw]

Try downloading the driver from here rather than the Windows update site (which only have the signed drivers): http://ranger.s3graphics.com/swlib/380drv/ BTW I would go for the 139412Hotkey.zip from Oct 2003

[Tobs]

thanx a million for that, currently downloading file now. You a life saver j2. I'll let you knowhow i get on with it