ASL Veteran Posted June 27, 2000 Share Posted June 27, 2000 I have been having trouble with a game freeze so total that I have never encountered anything like this before. This problem first appeared in the Gold Demo, but since it only happened once I didn't sweat it. Now it has happened about four times in about three hours of gaming last night. Basically, I go into playback mode and run the movie ... then if I hit the rewind button and get the movie going again the game freezes. This is no normal freeze, this is total freeze. The sounds are locked and I can't shut the computer off with the power button. In fact, the only way I can shut the computer off is to literally unplug it. I have a Pentium III 550, ATI Rage, Direct X 7a. In a unrelated issue, when I reinstalled my game after figuring out another issue, I got the message that the Mov0001 file has been corrupted and it then asks if I want to abort or ignore in order to complete installation. I tried installing more than once and I got that message every time. I didn't worry about it cause I figured it was the intro movie and I don't have quicktime. Windows probably couldn't identify the file and turned it into something it could identify. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASL Veteran Posted June 27, 2000 Author Share Posted June 27, 2000 By the way, I am playing at 1152 x 864 resolution. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted June 27, 2000 Share Posted June 27, 2000 When you lock up is the sound still coming from your speakers ? You may want to play with the "audio acceleration" slider in your Multimedia control panel (Multimedia control panel > audio tab > Advanced properties button in Playback area > Performance tab > Hardware acceleration slider in Audio Playback section). If you know what audio card/sound chip you have you may want to check and see if there are any driver updates (which may fix or make your problems worse - crapshot on that one). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danno Posted June 27, 2000 Share Posted June 27, 2000 This is similar to the lockups I am(was) having with using the madmatt mod pack. I've installed the fix and so far no lockups. The problem with the power button not working on your machine is really odd. My guess is that the lockup is so bad that it's hampering the power saving or whatever soft shutdown thing? I've never seen that happen before. The idea of using the sound acceleration slider is a good one. If I start getting lockups again I'll try that one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASL Veteran Posted June 28, 2000 Author Share Posted June 28, 2000 I checked ATI's website and saw that I do not have the latest driver. I had the ATI Rage Xpert 99 build 4.11.6216. I am now downloading driver build 4.12.6269. We'll see what happens (fingers crossed). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASL Veteran Posted June 28, 2000 Author Share Posted June 28, 2000 Well, I played through "Fear in the Fog" with no freezes so I think the new driver did it. Unfortunately there was no fog ... and very little fear as I only took 10 casualties to the Krauts 132. I did make sure that the weather effects were on to full effect .... still no foggy stuff. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Big Time Software Posted June 28, 2000 Share Posted June 28, 2000 Two last checks: 1. Toggle SHIFT-W to make sure you haven't switched off fog in CM. 2. Check your card's control panel. See if there's a toggle for 'fog table emulation'. If yes, turn it on. Charles 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASL Veteran Posted June 29, 2000 Author Share Posted June 29, 2000 I don't see any "Fog" box to check. I noticed another post up above dealing with the ATI Rage about fog. I'm thinking I just don't get fog with the ATI Rage. I began playing "Ham and Jam" yesterday and the freeze problem did rear its ugly head again. Not during gameplay though. First time it occurred was at the beginning of the set up phase. The second time it froze was when the screen said "Loading 3D graphics". After getting past those initial warts I played through ten turns freeze free before I had to call it a night. Once again, the only way to clear the freeze was to literally unplug the computer. I have a pretty common Hewlett Packard Pavilion. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Big Time Software Posted July 1, 2000 Share Posted July 1, 2000 Possible overheating? Is your CPU or your video card overlocked? If so, try turning that off. Charles 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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