freezing up in Colonies menu

Alpha Kodiak · #1 January 21st, 2001, 06:35 AM

The problem may not be the AMD chip (since I am running SEIV on an AMD k6-2/450). If you have a straight K6 then that might be it, but a K6-2 or K6-3 should be fine. I have seen problems with notebooks and games. Often, the sound card in the notebook is non-standard and causes problems. If that is the case then you might try turning sound off in the game.

I'm not at all familiar with your particular system, so I don't know if the sound is the problem, but it is worth checking out. I have yet to run into a game that the K6-2 had a problem with (including SEIV).

pathfinder · #2 January 21st, 2001, 07:30 AM

I have an AMD Athalon 500 mhz and SE IV runs without a hitch....the K-6...depends on cpu speed. But I used to have one and it didn't have too many problems (2 years ago anyway)..
but do turn off anything but systray and explorer...
maybe turn off sound...

DirkHowitzer · #3 January 21st, 2001, 03:57 PM

AMD Athlon all the way baby...;-)

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Lucas Kamp · #4 January 23rd, 2001, 09:31 PM

> turn off anything but systray and explorer

That worked! Great, thanks for the suggestion. (Am still not sure which app was the problem, possibly the antivirus one. Will repeat more carefully, doing them one by one.)

Thanks to all who responded ...