Quote:Could it not just be your card was tired and was about to kick the bucket anyway. GeForce 2 you say? Bit old ain't it.
You're not reading the entire post.
.. I didn't believe it myself..
So I tried with two other cards just to see if it was misfortune. Like I said above.
The first card to die (the one that I originally encountered this problem with), was a BIOSTAR GeForce6800GT w/ 512MB gDDR3. When I launched into space after setting the WinCamera line to 75 (the samplefile I had used the value 63 with a long decimal, after modifying it to 70 the HUD wasn't appearing where I wanted it too), my screen went black instantly. The computer was still running, but the videocard wasn't displaying anything.
I figured my PC might've just locked up, so I rebooted. Now, the GeForce BIOS still works, right before the system BIOS I can see it ping and initialize my card. However, once it gets beyond that point the screen goes black again. So I took it out and tested it in two other computers, one of which had the same exact hardware as the original box the card came from, the other being a Dell Dimension 8800. It didn't work in either of them.
.. Still in disbelief, I installed a BFGTech GeForceFX5200 into my box. I edited cameras.ini again and set the value down from 75 to 73, and upon launching from a base into space, the exact same thing happened with the 5200. I tried that card in my other two boxes, and it didn't work anymore either.
Afterwards, I had a GeForce2 MX400 left over from ages ago, so I figured what the hell. I've got an extra 6800 anyway, I'm going to try this again and see if it fails. I installed it, opened cameras.ini, set the WinCamera value down to 70, and that's when this happened:
RParade Wrote:As an example, my last attempt with the GeForce2 resulted in my display being warped to some undescribable resolution, something like 240x350 (estimated guess). The image on my screen was more of a skewed, obsfugated triangle at the center of my display rather than an actual "square", and it didn't occupy the entirety of the screen like it should've (even under stupidly low resolutions like 320xwhatever it should've used the entire display). The GeForce2 was the only card I was able to actually see anything with upon launching into space, but seconds after my display died and then the card never worked again.
.. Again, I installed the GeForce 2 into two other boxes and it didn't work anymore either. Instead of trying it again, I installed another 6800 that I had and booted into Windows. I didn't load Freelancer, instead I just uninstalled Freelancer. I reinstalled Freelancer and of course it worked fine, since I wasn't using a modded cameras.ini or resolution anymore.
I've recreated this problem with three different cards now, all of which worked prior to attempting this, and all of which were tested in two other systems. I'm only reporting what happened to me as a warning to others, it's fine if you don't believe me, but I've fried three cards now and I'll go to my grave screaming about cameras.ini and how it's a dirty, DANGEROUS hack. I didn't believe it myself, which is why I tried it with two other videocards. None of these cards had been overclocked or unlocked, they were stock videocards and the first videocard that died (the 6800) was only six months old. It could've been a seriously eery series of bad luck mishaps, or perhaps it's an issue with my hardware (something other than my videocards, all of which worked perfectly before attempting this), either way.. It still doesn't change the fact that there's danger involved in implementing this "mod."
