I haven't seen this mentioned much on the newsgroups - but have seen a
number
of posts on the Sierra forum about this. After running N4 for a while, I
get dumped to desktop or occasionally have a hard lockup. No real rhyme or
reason to it. If I had gone to the Sierra forum first I would've blamed N4
right off the bat, but I was thinking it was my system somewhere since this
didn't get mentioned much in the NG's - everyone on RAS was bitching about
copy-protection issues.
My rig:
Athlon 700 "classic" on a MSI K7 Pro
256MB RAM (2 sticks 128 MB PC100)
SB Live value
Voodoo5 5500 AGP
Toshiba DVD player - doesn't seem to have any copy-protection problems cuz I
can get the game to install and run, but who knows?
Latest drivers for everything, fresh install of Windows 98, does this with
DX 7.0a, 8.0, 8.0a. I've checked things in BIOS, everything seems good -
and I'm running the latest version (1.08). I've even taken each stick of
memory out to see if one of them was bad. My 300W power supply blew the
other day, thought AHA that was my problem all along - new PSU, STILL
getting CTD's.
When this first happened, I tried running GPL in D3D and it CTD'd too, so I
thought I had an overheating problem. Checked all the fans, ran the PC with
the case off and a fan blowing on it. CPU temp is like 90 F, system temp
like 92-94 F and a bit less with the case off, so that's not it. Then I
figure my V5 is dying, but I could run Glide stuff fine, figure something in
DirectX or my video drivers is screwed After reinstalling Win 98 and
drivers, GPL works like a charm even running it right after an N4 CTD
without rebooting. So does F1 CS 2000. So everything else seems to work
fine, although I haven't reinstalled most of my stuff yet.
Anyone have anything similar and find some obscure setting that fixed this?
Or do I have to wait for a patch ? Wouldn't be so bad except that N4
ROCKS - when its running. :-(
--
Ken's Sig 3.1
"Who is the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?"
- Obi-Wan Kenobi
volksy(at)yahoo(dot)com
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R.I.P Adam #45
Ken Beard <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> I haven't seen this mentioned much on the newsgroups - but have seen a
> number
> of posts on the Sierra forum about this. After running N4 for a while, I
> get dumped to desktop or occasionally have a hard lockup. No real rhymeor
> reason to it. If I had gone to the Sierra forum first I would've blamedN4
> right off the bat, but I was thinking it was my system somewhere sincethis
I
I
> thought I had an overheating problem. Checked all the fans, ran the PCwith
> the case off and a fan blowing on it. CPU temp is like 90 F, system temp
> like 92-94 F and a bit less with the case off, so that's not it. Then I
> figure my V5 is dying, but I could run Glide stuff fine, figure somethingin
> DirectX or my video drivers is screwed After reinstalling Win 98 and
> drivers, GPL works like a charm even running it right after an N4 CTD
> without rebooting. So does F1 CS 2000. So everything else seems to work
> fine, although I haven't reinstalled most of my stuff yet.
>
> Anyone have anything similar and find some obscure setting that fixedthis?
> Or do I have to wait for a patch ? Wouldn't be so bad except that N4
> ROCKS - when its running. :-(
>
>
I've got a 1 gz T-Bird with a Elsa Razor 32meg vid card. Was getting hard
lock ups like you described. I switched my video in the game from OpenGL to
D3D and haven't had a problem since. I know the graphics aren't as good but
right now I'm just so thrilled to be playing N4 that I can overlook that.
Try playing the game in D3D and see if that helps.
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> didn't get mentioned much in the NG's - everyone on RAS was bitching about > copy-protection issues. > > > My rig: > > Athlon 700 "classic" on a MSI K7 Pro > 256MB RAM (2 sticks 128 MB PC100) > SB Live value > Voodoo5 5500 AGP > Toshiba DVD player - doesn't seem to have any copy-protection problems cuzQuoted text (10 lines)
> can get the game to install and run, but who knows? > > Latest drivers for everything, fresh install of Windows 98, does this with > DX 7.0a, 8.0, 8.0a. I've checked things in BIOS, everything seems good - > and I'm running the latest version (1.08). I've even taken each stick of > memory out to see if one of them was bad. My 300W power supply blew the > other day, thought AHA that was my problem all along - new PSU, STILL > getting CTD's. > > When this first happened, I tried running GPL in D3D and it CTD'd too, soI AM using D3D. OpenGL on the V5 is slow and ugly, but I may try it to see
if it at least doesn't lock up.
--
Ken's Sig 3.1
"Who is the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?"
- Obi-Wan Kenobi
volksy(at)yahoo(dot)com
Go #43 and #44!
R.I.P Adam
"Otis" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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>
> >
> >
>
> I've got a 1 gz T-Bird with a Elsa Razor 32meg vid card. Was getting hard
> lock ups like you described. I switched my video in the game from OpenGL
to
> D3D and haven't had a problem since. I know the graphics aren't as good
but
> right now I'm just so thrilled to be playing N4 that I can overlook that.
>
> Try playing the game in D3D and see if that helps.
>
>
>
I don't have N4, but I had this problem with GPL.
Sierra tech figured the video card was overheating.
I put in a video accelerator card (a Diamond Monster 3D II).
This took some of the load off my video card and solved
my problem.
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 11:26:07 -0500, "Ken Beard"
<[email hidden]> wrote:
