Game Instability

ins · Jun 26, 2003, 11:54 AM

Erm, my machine keeps freezing whenever I play Enemy Terroritory. I don't know what's causing it but it is quite annoying

I've got a feeling it may be some setting. Also Quake 3 OSP seems to freeze only when I use a certain config, so this makes me think it could be some kind of graphics setting as both games use the same engine (i think?). Any ideas? help

~~craig588~~ · Jun 26, 2003, 12:19 PM

What are you load temps, whats your system specs and what PSU do you have?

ins · Jun 26, 2003, 12:24 PM

A-Bit nForce2 NF7 (onboard sound + lan)
AMD Athlon 2000 XP
Sapphire Radeon 9700 PRO
512mb DDR 400

Ave Temps: Case Ave 32 | CPU Ave 45
Max Temp: Case Max 35 | Cpu Max 52

(in degrees celcius )

Never hit above with me monitoring.

400W PSU

Note: It hasn't crashed in any other game BAR Quake 3 OSP but thats only with the one config.

Ta for the reply.

~~craig588~~ · Jun 26, 2003, 12:43 PM

I was thinking you might have been overheating or had a weak power supply, but those are both fine. I'll look deeper into this.

ins · Jun 26, 2003, 03:18 PM

ta dude ^^

~~craig588~~ · Jun 26, 2003, 07:37 PM

I'm sorry, but someone else will have to help you becuase the best I could do to mess it up on my system was to make the loading screens flicker like crazy (and the only way I managed to fix that was by reinstalling) but I couldn't make it crash. I also searched google and a few other forums and didn't find anything.

Theres always generic stuff you could try, like reformatting, reinstalling DX, drivers and/or Enemy Teritory, but this doesn't seem like the type of problem that would be fixed by that.

Another question came to my mind: Does it crash at a certian point of time consistantly, or on a specific map?

scobywhru · Jun 26, 2003, 07:51 PM

Well Its better then my Machine RTCW: ET just hardlocks it with the Squel of deth comming from my Audigy Card, atleast when I saturate my PCI bus

ins · Jun 26, 2003, 08:56 PM

it always freezes like a few minutes into the game, on any map although it did last quite noticeably longer once.

digerati · Jun 26, 2003, 11:08 PM

I've had this happen on the UT03 demo. If I played a certain type of game style it would always lock up a few minutes of the game. I even tried underclocking my radeon.

~~craig588~~ · Jun 26, 2003, 11:21 PM

Oh, wow you just inadvertantly gave me the soloution. I had the exact same problems in anything based on the UT2K3 engine, where it would crash randomly. I fixed it by running driver cleaner, then installing the omega drivers. Try that, it will probably work.

digerati · Jun 26, 2003, 11:26 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by craig588
Oh, wow you just inadvertantly gave me the soloution. I had the exact same problems in anything based on the UT2K3 engine, where it would crash randomly. I fixed it by running driver cleaner, then installing the omega drivers. Try that, it will probably work.

Does this mean I get something special?

~~craig588~~ · Jun 26, 2003, 11:31 PM

You get a thanks and this pic:

digerati · Jun 26, 2003, 11:39 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by craig588
You get a thanks and this pic:

NOOO!!! YOU KILLED ZAZA!!!

ins · Jun 27, 2003, 06:24 AM

im still crashing :[

Kgentatszu] · Jun 27, 2003, 06:28 AM

you can try underclocking your radeon like ^_^ mentioned and see what happens......(though i doubt it)

digerati · Jun 27, 2003, 07:11 PM

Let's assume the worst situation. Hardware incompatibility, what kind of motherboard do you have? I know my old soyo dragon plus didn't like half the things I put in it and gave me hassles on about almost every program I ran.