Private Paurtz Posted March 16, 2001 Share Posted March 16, 2001 my friend is having problems with the demo. his computer (im not a techie but heres the basics: win 98 amd-k6 II 350 mhz ati rage agp 4mb video card 128 megs ram directx 8.0 installed the demo comes up nicely, and the first scenario looks fine, and i was surprised at how good the graphics look with his low end system. but after about 20 seconds of starting the first scenario, the game locks up, and the last sounds heard begin to loop. ctrl+alt+delete is required to get out of this. <marquee behavior=alternate> </marquee behavior=alternate> ------------------ when evil is spoken about you, live so that noone can believe it [This message has been edited by Private Paurtz (edited 03-16-2001).] [This message has been edited by Private Paurtz (edited 03-16-2001).] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olle Petersson Posted March 16, 2001 Share Posted March 16, 2001 Is it reproduceable? I.e. does it happen every time, or did it happen once and you didn't try again? I think something similar's happened to me once or twice, but once the computer was rebooted there wasn't any problem. Cheers Olle 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Private Paurtz Posted March 16, 2001 Author Share Posted March 16, 2001 happened everytime. rebooted, loaded different drivers, happened again. reloaded newest drivers possible, rebboted, retried, happened again. same thing everytime. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted March 16, 2001 Share Posted March 16, 2001 It may be possible that his soundcard and video card are sharing the same IRQ, which may cause problems for some computers. While sharing IRQs is normal, due to the amount of data sent to each item in CM there is a possibility of problems such as the one your friend is experiencing. There are several possibilities to change the IRQs, but they require a bit of confidence and knowledge about what you're doing in Windows. To check if the video and sound are sharing IRQs go to the Start Menu > Settings > Control Panel > System control panel > Device Manager tab > double-click on the "Computer" icon in the listing. This should bring up a tabbed dialog box that will initially display the IRQ assignments (with the IRQ number to the left of the item). Look through the listing for the video card and the sound card and see if they're sharing the same IRQ. If they are, then changing this around may solve the problem. However changing this isn't really easy and is dependent on your system. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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