Hello all, I have a question for some able minded computer person that understands the mystery of what happens after I push the on button better than I. Here goes, I have a P4 2.4, elite group mother board p4m800 pro with a via chipset, 512 of kingston memory ddr 400 an agp Nvidia geforce 6800 gt factory overclocked 256 mb ramdac dual 400mhz 1000mhz memory clock core clock370 mhz graphics card that has been just returned from the manufacturer(BFG) as 100% working IDE maxtor harddrive 80 gig. 350w power supply. Anyway the graphics card needs min 300w and it requires a power plug in. I am trying to play far cry with recommended specs of 512 mb ram p3 1 gig 64 mb directx video card, pretty low specs, however when I try to play the game it auto detects my computer at low settings and I dont get all graphics like moving water etc. I played it fine on my old p3 933 with an ati 9600 no problem. I am wondering other than the graphics card what could be causing this it is a new build. Not enough power from supply? How do I test such a thing? Mother board bad? All latest drivers installed! Thanks to anyone who may shed some light on this for me before I am forced to spend who knows how much diagnosing my new build! I am having problems running my MAME as well on this computer however this may be a seperate software issue just wanting to make this question somewhat pertaining to our group

did you try changing the settings to a higher level manually? nobody ever actually uses the auto detect settings.

Quoted from Mani

did you try changing the settings to a higher level manually? nobody ever actually uses the auto detect settings.

Thanks for your reply! Yes I did however when I up the setting to high I get even worse results such as blacked out areas, colors missing... makes me think that either not enough power to the card or...  Maybe the hard drive has something wrong with it. I think I will try a new hard drive as my first attempt unless any other suggestions come my way. Only problem with that is the obvious Pain of transfering evey thing on to a new drive.

Cheers