Game freezes

[Imp]

Okay think I have noticed something like that the odd time doesnt freeze game just causes a refresh but I normaly have a lot of stuff runing in the background & it is very rare & causes no impact on game in my case. Are you running other graphic stuff in background that may cause it most obviously a wallpaper changer if playing in windowed mode

[DRG]

Originally Posted by Imp

Are you running other graphic stuff in background that may cause it most obviously a wallpaper changer if playing in windowed mode

and...

- is the game the one and only thing you have run and are running while playing ? Have you run hours of other applications before playing the game or is this the only thing you have going?

How many other programs are running while the game is running and are you on line while playing?

As I have already said many times in the past I regularly run the game, Paint shop Pro, A text Editing program and MOBHack all at the same time while getting patches ready and my computer is an 11 year old Dell with a 800 Mhz Pentium III which means it's a senior citizen with a walker compared to most machines today ( that said I recently picked up a rootkit that caused a nasty crash and for a few days thought I'd lost everything but that was not the case and after I had a new HD installed along with a fresh install of XP it's running better than ever now with my old HD as D: )

That said, if I've been running for hours and doing a lot of things I *occasionally* see oddities like this in the game AND other programs as well.

That said the inital report of " Suddenly my game has started freezing "indicates first that it was running fine before which means something new has been introduced to change that so what changed ?

Don

[Imp]

Sorry was a direct response to Wdlls post as original problem seemed solved, should have used quotes. The VERY odd time its like it needs to refresh never bothers me & Im sure is caused by something runing externaly to the game. Reason I mentioned wallpaper changer is because when desktop changes screen will refresh so seemed a possible cause. Said several times your games are incredibly stable I often have 2-5 things going including online & it plays fine rock solid programing as far as im concerned.

[whdonnelly]

So far it occurs on my Vista machine, but not the windows 7 computer. There are no other programs open, outside of all the windows features and other programs that seem to run in the background. The only new software is a Firefox upgrade from a few weeks ago, plus the Microsoft, Adobe, and MacAfee daily or weekly upgrades. Doesn't seem to matter how long the computer has been running, or even if I have anything open in another window. Since this seems to be my very own problem, I will reload everything and not assume it is from a bad Microsoft patch.
Or get a new computer

[Mobhack]

Originally Posted by whdonnelly

So far it occurs on my Vista machine, but not the windows 7 computer. There are no other programs open, outside of all the windows features and other programs that seem to run in the background. The only new software is a Firefox upgrade from a few weeks ago, plus the Microsoft, Adobe, and MacAfee daily or weekly upgrades. Doesn't seem to matter how long the computer has been running, or even if I have anything open in another window. Since this seems to be my very own problem, I will reload everything and not assume it is from a bad Microsoft patch.
Or get a new computer

Vista is the "Windows ME" of the early 2000s. I'd describe it as the "bad Microsoft patch" in question ... !

The best way to patch vista IMHO, is to apply a Windows 7 upgrade to it. It is the fixed version of Vista, after all. And probably cheaper than a new PC.

Cheers
Andy

[Wdll]

Originally Posted by Imp

Sorry was a direct response to Wdlls post as original problem seemed solved, should have used quotes. The VERY odd time its like it needs to refresh never bothers me & Im sure is caused by something runing externaly to the game. Reason I mentioned wallpaper changer is because when desktop changes screen will refresh so seemed a possible cause. Said several times your games are incredibly stable I often have 2-5 things going including online & it plays fine rock solid programing as far as im concerned.

It's not a game killer or anything. It only happens when I play the game windowed. Although lately it is most of the time (windowed). It happens no matter if I have other software running or not, or time it Windows is running. I don't worry about it.