JigVictor07 Posted February 1, 2001 Share Posted February 1, 2001 Hi, I recently upgraded my computer and now CM is unplayable. It freezes already during the first turn when I'm giving orders. Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work and I just have to switch the computer off. I never had this problem with my old system. The specs for the new computer are: TBird 1GHz Asus A7V mobo 256 MB PC-133 Elsa GeForce2 MX 32MB IBM Deskstar 75GXP 30 GB Soundblaster Live! Value DirectX 8.0 Latest NVidia drivers from their website Latest VIA 4-in-1 drivers and BIOS v.1003 for the mobo CM v1.1 Windows 98SE Desktop resolution 32 bit All except vital programs are closed during the game. Any help is appreciated. JV [This message has been edited by JigVictor07 (edited 02-01-2001).] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted February 1, 2001 Share Posted February 1, 2001 Another user found a Registry patch for Athlon motherboards and NVidia drivers (they were running Win2K though). This may hopefully help your problem: ASUS AGP Registry patch (link to forum post with ASUS link): http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/Forum8/HTML/001190.html 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JigVictor07 Posted February 2, 2001 Author Share Posted February 2, 2001 Thanks Schrullenhaft, I'll give it a try. JV 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JigVictor07 Posted February 4, 2001 Author Share Posted February 4, 2001 OK, that patch was only for Win2000 and I have 98SE... What else could I do? All other games run just fine. JV 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted February 6, 2001 Share Posted February 6, 2001 Though this has no bearing on your particular problem to my knowledge... The ASUS A7V has a version 1005c BIOS at the moment. The Tiawanese site is mixing up the English characters at the moment, so I can't figure out all of the differences between your current BIOS and this one. I believe there have been some changes to the ATA-100 controller and SMBus. Possibly some other changes too. ASUS A7V BIOS update: http://www.asus.com.tw/products/motherboard/bios_socka.html A7V BIOS Beta BIOS 1005d (fixes some boot problems with previous 1005 BIOS's): http://www.asus.com.tw/products/techref/tech-report/mthmbqa.html There is also a BIOS update to the Elsa Gladiac MX (though this mentions the GeForce 2 GTS in the text, it appears to be for the MX). This will most likely affect functionality between the video card and the monitor and any applicable changes to displaying certain resolutions, etc. Elsa Gladiac MX BIOS update (get NTSC version 3.11.00.18.34): http://www2.elsa.de/internet/ElsaFileArea.nsf/files?OpenView&Start=1&Count=1000&Expand=4.2.1#4.2.1 It seems as if Elsa has released drivers based on 6.67. I'm not sure if there is anything special about them (most likely not), but you may want to try these instead of the NVidia Reference drivers you have installed now (though I'd guess that there really isn't a difference). Madmatt has had problems with a number of the NVidia releases above 6.31, so I don't know if these will be any better or not: http://www2.elsa.de/internet/ElsaFileArea.nsf/files?OpenView&Start=1&Count=1000&Expand=4.2.5#4.2.5 What are your current FSAA settings ? Though your computer should be fast enough to use FSAA without problems, you may want to tinker with the settings to see if this does anything. Do you have any other lockups with this computer outside of playing CM ? Do you play any other DirectX-based games ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JigVictor07 Posted February 6, 2001 Author Share Posted February 6, 2001 Thanks again Schrullenhaft, I'm using BIOS v1.003 because it's said to be the most stable version. But maybe I try the 1.005 version and see what happens. And the other fixes also. About FSAA, I'm using 1x2 setting now and haven't tried any other setting. The only other game I'm playing currently is the B17-II and amazingly I haven't had any problems with that (or any other software), unlike many others have... I contacted the BTS support directly and Madmatt sent me a long list of possible fixes in about an hour, even though it must have been about 1 or 2 AM there. That's what I call support! Thanks again for your help! JV 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JigVictor07 Posted February 8, 2001 Author Share Posted February 8, 2001 OK, found the problem: the Soundblaster Live! Value... It was already in slot 3 but I had to force it to IRQ5 in BIOS (it was in AUTO before) and set the latency to 'Yes' and now the CM works! Thanks Schrullenhaft and Madmatt for your help! JV 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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