Lethaface Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 Since all the fuzz about the brits , the last few weeks I have been starting up some CMSF games again. However, it ctd's so much it is barely playable. I havent seen this before while playing CMSF on this machine. It could be 1.11 since I didn't really play since it came out, however I played some RT tcp/ip battles a few weeks ago. Since the Vista sp2 did come out though, so Im not sure what is the problem. The symptoms are that CMSF will run fine, untill suddenly the cursor turns into a windows cursor and everything, except sound, hangs. This occurs during loading of bigger maps, although not always, as well as during regular mission time, or deploying phase. A few times I was given a 'run out of memory' prompt however this hasn't occured the last 10 times orso. Im running a coreI7 920, ati hd4870x2 wiht 6gb ddr3 on a asus p6t mobo using vista ultimate x64. anyone else shares this problem? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisND Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 I use Vista Business 64 bit, and haven't had any problems. FWIW. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan/california Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 Update your drivers. if that doesn't work try manually resetting to an older version. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Johnston Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 I use Vista 64 Home Premium thingummy, works fine here. Well, no, it doesn't, it crashes on the first campaign, but I don't think that's Vista related; scenarios and QBs are fine. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethaface Posted July 17, 2009 Author Share Posted July 17, 2009 well have the latest ati drivers, just checked upon mobo utilities but there doesnt seem to be any chipset or other necessary update. Dont want to run older ati drivers. Ill try to reinstall cmsf, perhaps it will do something. Cheers for advice anyway 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan/california Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 You could try a Windows Seven Beta? Or XP 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apocalypse 31 Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 I use Vista Business 64 bit, and haven't had any problems. FWIW. Same here, but I CANT TAKE SCREENSHOTS!!!!FFS 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan/california Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 There is a reason Vista cratered after all. I mean INTEL refused to upgrade for *&^&$%*$ sake. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisND Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 Same here, but I CANT TAKE SCREENSHOTS!!!!FFS Yeah, I've had the same problem. Ended up just using FRAPS for screenies. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatoichi Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 I've had a problem with my ATI 4850 with drivers later than 9.3 running CMSF - I had a lot of crashes and ended up going back to 9.3. I'm not alone in discovering that these are the last stable drivers for the 4800 family of cards for playing CMSF - I hope that patch 1.20 does something about this, but knowing how flaky drivers can be for both NVIDIA and ATI I'm not holding my breath that there's anything BFC can do on their end. There's a few threads on this ATI problem over in the Tech forum. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apocalypse 31 Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 Yeah, I've had the same problem. Ended up just using FRAPS for screenies. I've toyed with it, but in the end I've made my deicision to not download 3rd party software to take a damn screenie. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethaface Posted July 18, 2009 Author Share Posted July 18, 2009 just updated all my other drivers and checked anything that could be wrong; disabled adaptive AA, etc... It didnt really help, although i could play for a good 20 minutes I think I played a tcpip battle using the same ati drivers, so perhaps its vista sp2. hoping 1.2 will let me play again 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acrashb Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 just updated all my other drivers Downgrade your ATI drivers to 9.3 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethaface Posted July 19, 2009 Author Share Posted July 19, 2009 Im not really feeling for going from 9.6 to 9.3. It seems to be a ram leaking problem, which makes me believe my video cards drivers have little to do with it. Could be wrong though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethaface Posted July 19, 2009 Author Share Posted July 19, 2009 Faulting application CM Shock Force.exe, version 0.0.0.0, time stamp 0x494f6fc8, faulting module atioglxx.dll, version 6.14.10.8673, time stamp 0x4a0e279e, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x005f0cd7, process id 0xef4, application start time 0x01ca08a6edbf48b0. seems you are right; i looked it up in the event viewer. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatoichi Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 Yep, and going back to 9.3 is currently the only workaround I've found, unless there's something in the forthcoming 1.20 patch that makes the later drivers play better with CMSF. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethaface Posted July 20, 2009 Author Share Posted July 20, 2009 Just tested it and indeed it works, thanks for the advice. Hope there will be a solution for this soon... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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