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Pablo · #1 September 25th, 2003, 09:02 AM

I had the same problem as Renegade 13. The game froze, I window-keyed out, came back and the freezing was gone but some chumpy graphics appeared on the mouse and menus. Resolved it by saving and restarting the game.
PC: AMD 1.4GHz, 448 MB RAM (64+128+256), GeForce 4 64MB video, directx latest (9?), HDD 120GB seagate.

Renegade 13 · #2 September 25th, 2003, 04:31 PM

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Originally posted by Pablo:
I had the same problem as Renegade 13. The game froze, I window-keyed out, came back and the freezing was gone but some chumpy graphics appeared on the mouse and menus. Resolved it by saving and restarting the game.
PC: AMD 1.4GHz, 448 MB RAM (64+128+256), GeForce 4 64MB video, directx latest (9?), HDD 120GB seagate.

Yep, that's the same. I tried upgrading my video card's drivers, but found the latest Version was already installed. I haven't yet figured out the problem. But the game still works, so I can't complain too much

pathfinder · #3 September 28th, 2003, 11:55 AM

Nutz, I can't get the demo to work at all.

Freezes when I hit the "Play" button.

System:

WIN98SE
AMD Athalon XP1700+ cpu
DirectX 9.0a
512 MB RAM
GeForce 4200 TI w/64MB RAM & 44.03 Nvidia drivers
Creative Audigy (latest driver)

Alpha Kodiak · #4 September 28th, 2003, 02:15 PM

I'm noticing that a lot of the systems (though not all) that are having problems have AMD processors. Is anyone with an AMD processor able to run?

Phoenix-D · #5 September 28th, 2003, 05:31 PM

Yep. AMD 1700+ (i.e. 1.4 GHz) here.

Pablo · #6 September 30th, 2003, 08:26 AM

Updated all drivers/directx but still the freezing is spoiling the fun as I have to exit the game and start it again in order to get rid of the messed-up display. Reloading the game is no good; it is required to restart the game. This happens ~every 5-10 minutes. Any ideas?

David E. Gervais · #7 September 30th, 2003, 12:16 PM

FYI: I have the following system..

ECS Elitegroupe K7S5A motherboard
AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (1.46ghz)
nVidia GForce2 MX/400 64mb
SoundBLaster Live! Value
256 Meg RAM
30gig HD, 52x CD-ROM,

The game runs fine for me, but early on the game was crashing to desktop without warning. With Aaron's help the problem was tracked down to the sound card.

I found updated drivers at www.soundbLaster.com and it has never crashed since.

The nVidia drivers I'm running are v45.23.
The SBLive drivers are v 5.12.2.252 (7/24/2002)
I have the original v1.0 of my motherboard BIOS.

None of my devices are sharing IRQ's except for my USB controllers and my sound card. (but I have no USB devices plugged in to my computer)

I've heard that many motherBoards have problems with AMD, but most if not all of these have BIOS patches that fix the problem.

One other note,.. the only 'active' program on my taskbar (icons on the bottom right!) is the volume control. (I'm a firm believer in running programs WHEN I need them, and not having stuff running IN CASE I will need them.)

I hope some of this info helps, have a great day.

Cheers!

[ September 30, 2003, 11:17: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]