Sid Meier’s Pirates No Good with Intel Video Card
January 24, 2006 by Ingrid Diaz
Filed under Gaming
We’ve received a warning tip from a reader regarding Sid Meier’s Pirates for PC. Apparently, if you have an Intel Video Card, don’t bother getting the game:
If you have been seeing the game “Sid Meiers Pirates” (By Atari) all over the place and you want to Play it (cause you found it at half price at a gaming store) DON’T get it if you have an Intel(R) video card, why you ask. Well I’ll tell ya, because after doing some cool adventuring, and swooning all the Governors and Mayors daughters the game will just shut down on you in the middle of play, and to top that off there’s no auto saves in this game.
It’s so frustrating to get a new game like this and not be able to play it, even when the specs say on the box it will work.
I have tried to update my video card to no avail.
Has anyone else experienced similar problems with the game? I haven’t tried it yet on PC. I have it for the Xbox.
[Thanks for the warning, Teresa!!]
It seems there may be a patch for the game. Only I couldn’t access it through Take 2’s website.
The link for what it’s worth :
http://www.take2games.com/support/patches/Sid_Meiers_Pirates_Version_1.0.2.0_Update.zip
It’s also features on that website, which might have more information about it :
http://www.addictedtopirates.com/
Go pirates!
Well Take 2 recently had some fire troubles from what I heard. Now I don’t know if they hosted their own site but that could be some of the issues.
My friend had this game on her laptop and she absolutely could not run it. I do not remember what video card she had, but, her laptop was not a gaming one, meaning it must have been an on-board or generic intel video card.
Even with the patch, her game kept crashing.
I believe the intel video card is the problem. We recently installed it on a new computer with on-board intel and we can play the game but we cannot re load any saved games. This is both with and without the patch. In addition the graphics tend to be flaky when in a port (the patch fixed this).
I have the patch as well but it still crashes about every 30 seconds….it is very frustrating
I would like to know the mail adress of Sid Meier and tell him what a son of bitch is, because he has “bonded” the game with nVidia and ATI card manufacturers. You know the first version was not so high tech and I am realy mad on me, because i discarded the DOS version of Pirates.
Does anybody knows the mail adress?
I have the same problem as Cameron. No matter what I’ve done it still crashes every 30-90 seconds. Has anybody ever figured anything out?
I have a NVIDIA 7600GS and i can not even launch it if it makes yall feel any better. Downloaded the patch and still same result. Installed it and when I hit the icon on my desktop I hear a breif tune and it freezes. Never any video. This so sux. I had a NVIDIA 6200 and it worked fine now with the new card nada. Well good luck all and hopfully we find a fix.