Game Unplayable - Staff please respond

Alpha Kodiak · #1 November 21st, 2001, 12:22 AM

Man, this is not the thread Dell's marketing department wants the world to see!

Question, if you just turn on the laptop and let it sit for a half hour or so doing nothing, will SEIV work properly or not? That might be a clue as to what sort of issue to look for.

Mephisto · #2 November 21st, 2001, 12:39 AM

Sorry, didn't read the part about the laptop.

If only dell laptops with ME are the ones that crash it is probably a dell problem, I agree.

LLB · #3 November 22nd, 2001, 01:24 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Alpha Kodiak:
Man, this is not the thread Dell's marketing department wants the world to see!

Question, if you just turn on the laptop and let it sit for a half hour or so doing nothing, will SEIV work properly or not? That might be a clue as to what sort of issue to look for.

Well, I actually like my two Dell machines. There just seems to be a quirk in the laptops that crashes SEIV, or, probably more accurately, there's a quirk in SEIV that causes it to crash on Dell laptops.

Your idea of letting the machine sit for a half hour before trying the program is interesting. Usually when I turn the laptop on it's because I mean to do something with it

, so I've never tried your suggestion. I will when I get a chance, because I agree that the results might be informative.

Thanks,
L

LLB · #4 November 22nd, 2001, 01:41 AM

quote:
Originally posted by [K126]Mephisto:
Sorry, didn't read the part about the laptop. If only dell laptops with ME are the ones that crash it is probably a dell problem, I agree.

No sweat, Mephisto. I thought you were making good sense, because hardware glitches *can* cause just the sort of infuriating intermittent errors we've been describing. I've been there too, and it's *not* fun

.

L

Peeve · #5 November 24th, 2001, 09:58 PM

Hmm.. I am having the same problem on a new Dell desktop. Old Dell desktop (P3 450 Win 98 SE) has no problem with SE IV. New Dell desktop (P4 1.7 GHz WinMe) has the range check error when I try to move a ship anywhere. I will see if the work around mentioned earlier solves the problem and post back.

Peeve · #6 November 25th, 2001, 05:01 PM

Got it to work. Started SE IV and got the range check error, closed game, waited 45 minutes then started again and played for 4 hours with no problems.
I had a similar "timing" problem with Diablo 2 with the key being 1 hour for that game, but that is for a different forum.

Thanks!

Atrocities · #7 November 25th, 2001, 06:28 PM

Peeve, I'm sorry dude, but I have never heard of that. What are your system spec's?