phil stanbridge Posted December 3, 2000 Share Posted December 3, 2000 Hello all, still having major lockups with this patch. Can't understand it. My specs: Athlon TB 900mhz 256MB Ram WinME DirectX 8 Geforce 2MX with 6.31 Nvidia drivers SBLive 1024 ISDN 128k My machine isn't unstable like this with anything else. I was using 7.17 drivers and downgraded, also upgraded DX to version 8. Even playing against the AI I can almost guarantee a system lockup resulting in a hard reset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rune Posted December 3, 2000 Share Posted December 3, 2000 Ditch the 7.17 drivers, both Madmatt and I had nothing but problems with it. You can go back to 6.47, altho I am testing the 6.49 that were just released. Rune Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil stanbridge Posted December 3, 2000 Author Share Posted December 3, 2000 I am using the 6.31 drivers as Madmatt suggested I do if I still had problems. Still hasn't made a differnce. I'm hoping I won't have to do a format C: here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne Posted December 3, 2000 Share Posted December 3, 2000 I've seen a few more lock-ups than is normal on mine as well. I have a ; Compaq AMD 450 with a Nvidia TNT32, Win 98, DirectX 7, Essolo sound system. My drivers are 4.12 from the Jaton co. Don't know if this is a fluke or a result of the beta patch. ------------------ Blessed be the Lord my strength who teaches my hands to war and my fingers to fight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Napoleon1944 Posted December 7, 2000 Share Posted December 7, 2000 Locks ups galore with Rage 128 video, but I think the sound card was the culpret. Format c: was the answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted December 7, 2000 Share Posted December 7, 2000 phil - can you play v. 1.05 without any problems or does it lockup also ? If it does, then there are probably driver problems still. You may have to completely uninstall your video drivers (killing .INF files and registry settings - if you know how) and install some "Standard PCI SVGA" drivers. At this point you could then reinstall the 6.31/6.47 NVidia drivers. What may be important here is deleting registry settings associated with the NVidia drivers. I don't know of any in particular that would cause the problems that you're seeing. Hopefully there won't be any spurious DLLs/VXDs from 7.17 causing any potential problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
27ray Posted December 7, 2000 Share Posted December 7, 2000 Must just add that my Apple Powerbook 400 runs this game fast (faster than a PIII933 during one TCP/IP session and i was on battery power no less with wireless networking ... but i digress) and does not crash despite numerous PBEM, TCPIP games and many many mods. This is the best game going And i love it kudos all around!!! -ray P.S. I know that this might sound inflammatory but for the sake of many users with difficulties i thought i would point out that their are alternatives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne Posted December 7, 2000 Share Posted December 7, 2000 I may have found out why I was freezing up. I do a defrag on my system every two days and now no problems. ------------------ Blessed be the Lord my strength who teaches my hands to war and my fingers to fight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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