bruno

Schrullenhaft, Hi again. I jump on your last reply and wonder if my random lockups are not linked to the mouse. I noticed yesterday that, a few seconds after CM locked up, the mouse pointer disappeared from the screen. Also, what is ACPI, how can I make sure the system uses it or not etc. my system : Win2K+SP2, MSI, Thunderbird 1.2, 256 DDR, DirectX 8.1, NVidia 27.10.

another thing I forgot to say : my screen saver locks up from time to time, after a variable length of time. may that be linked to the same hidden problem ?

Hello, having problems with the Detonator drivers used on a Cougar Maxi Gamer VE (aka NVidia) on Win2K, like flickering and random lock of CM (locking the PC as well), I have installed the 27.10 drivers and then DirectX 8.1. the diplay adapter did not get any 3D capability it had with the 23.11 drivers and of course CM could not recognize the actual resolution and ran in 600*480. So I had to re-install the 23.11 driver but stil faces the risk of random lock and FSAA. Any clue ??? Thanks in advance.

Schrullenhaft, thanks a lot for this reply. at least I know not much can be done with this HW. Also, another problem I have noticed by playing a few games : CM locks up randomly after 10 or 15 turns in large to huge games, for example while you are setting up the orders for units. the PC is totally locked and I can't even activate Win2K Task Manager to kill the task. I have to re-boot and need to re-start a new version of the game because the file is corrupted and does not load. Any clue ? Note : I have 256 DDR RAM and a 1.2 GIG Thunderbird : should be enough for CM !!

Have checked w/Dell. They say that the video chipset has limited 3D capabilities. Have reinstalled the latest videodriver and right after DirectX8a (the acceleration buttons are still greyed out). And still get only 600*480 resolution in CM. Again, when I was in Win98 with the same hardware (Dell CPxJ), CM was working fine. I had DirectX7 at that time but had not checked the diagnosis since CM was working. Maybe you have a patch for the combination Win2K / DirectX8a / ATI rage M1 on a Dell (daydream ...). Or what should I do ??

I had CM run previously in Win98 on this laptop (Dell Latitude CPxJ). I have Win2000 now. FYI, have also a crash at game launch with SPWaW (mech.exe) though it used to work previously in Win2000. Do not know what is corrupted in my system ; everything looks fine, and no registry errors are reported after running RegClean. DierctX : the Direct3D and DirectDraw and the AGP Texture acceleration are greyed out. Could that be the cause of the problem ? I am going to reinstall the Videodriver with the latest driver. We will see.

Have installed CM in Win2K on a Dell Laptop and DirectX8a. laptop resolution is 1024*768. Videocard : ATI Rage Mobility 1. Monitor settings : Generic TV, Digital Flat Panel, Std Monitor. DirectX resolution : same as laptop Problem : the game starts only with 640*480. No other choice and if I skip to next says fails to initialize DirectX 3d graphics. What can I do (have reinstalled-rebooted many times)