Demigod killed my Gfx card! j/k

Ugh - that sucks nom.  Regarding the i3 graphics chip, no idea - but definitely worth a shot.  Give it a try and let us know how that goes.  My work laptop can run dg at like 5 fps (eg I tried it once and never again), but hopefully you do quite a bit better. 

Another thing - and I'm trying to get as many people as possible to do this - please check out the following thread and use it to configure your network if you have not.  I think alot of the disconnects and crashes are caused by network configuration and noticed a huge improvement myself when I have things configured properly.  The more of us that get setup correctly should result in fewer drops or disconnects. 

http://forums.impulsedriven.com/387553

Funny.

Over the past two weeks I've twice had graphical related issues with DB where I had never had any before.  In both cases, the whole screen went black, with the exception of the bottom bar, mini-map, and damage numbers.  In one case I fixed it by alt-tabbing out and back.  In the other case, alt-tabbing out crashed the game (luckily within the first three minutes).

Nice name change Nom !

Good luck on the video card, hopefully you can get that squared away. I wish i had an extra to send over.

Lets us know if your i3 will work!

Hey thanks guys

I didn't get to try the i3 graphics since i actually have a new card already , my brother wanted a new one so i bought it for him and i'll use it meanwhile i (hopefully ) get the old one replaced. The only problem now is the new one makes so much noise it's driving me crazy  , even at the lowest fan speed setting    . OH well

You see pacov, i had read the thread you linked, and i was just done resetting my modem-router to factory defaults and disabling its built-in firewall (i was having some issues with settlers 7 online too), right when the gfxcard died.  Hopefully i will now be able to see if there's any difference connectivity-wise   Though i think if UPnP is enabled and well implemented both in Demigod and the router there's no need for any port forwarding.  We will see i guess

Jong, this is actually the account i gifted to my brother, but since he doesn't use it i changed it to OMG_nom . I want to conserve my original account name for some reason, kinda afraid of losing it   .

Although I'm still not sure if i should extend it to the full "OMG_nomilarac", "OMG_nom" is shorter and faster to type to log-in. What do you think? OMG_nom is kinda too short and impersonal, it could even be confused with OMG_mom . I'm a living doubt....

If uPnP is enabled and well implemented is the key.  I found it caused me issues as I used that before in dg and had the random drops, etc.  My thought is, the more people with a standardized config the better as we are all pretty much used to seeing random drops in games... i mean, realistically, I could play 8 games tonight and 4 of them will have someone with a random drop (granted some could be rage quits, but there are usually a few "signs" if that's going to happen).  I'd imagine most people's experiences are similar (though granted, on a good night 2/8 games would have a random disconnect).  Anyway, just my 2 cents - but I think setting up port forwarding and following the_monks guide is a good approach. 

Hope you get back in action before too long.  And perhaps were forced to buy yourself a nice little upgrade in the process (I hate when that happens :))

I vote for OMG_nomilarac - even thought I would only ever refer to you as nom

I'm a little curious now... who makes your graphics cards Saul/Nom?  Wonder if there was a new patch or anything.  I have ati and I know one of their releases caused me some dg headaches several months back. 

Well if they have nvidia is shouldn't be a problem because I have never had an issue with mine.

Nomilarac is a cool name bro, keep it!

keep the omg it means your one of us

Well, the community has spoken , OMG_nomilarac will be, thanks for your advice guys  

The deceased card was a Nvidia 8800GT, but i highly doubt demigod had anything to do with its death pacov. It was giving some signs of malfunction (some weird freezes-hiccups ingame, specially in settlers 7), it was 20 months old and the heat wave we're suffering around this parts probably didn't help at all .

I do hope i get some kind of replacement from the shop though, since it's still under the standard 2 years guarantee here in EU.

P.S: I forgot, since i reset the router to factory default settings and disabled its built-in firewall i haven't had a single drop or got proxied/NAT with any other player, all this without any port-forwarding. I haven't played that much though, so i'll keep tracking how demigod behaves with these router settings.

Interesting.  What router are you using?  Thanks!

I still vote OMG_MOM

OMG_YourMomNom