-ReP- 07-29-2003, 12:50 PM I have been playing T2 since the day of release with minimal problems and never a ue. But now after a slight change in my hardware I crash to desktop, lock up, or ue about every 5 minutes of game time. The only change since my previous happy gaming to my current "I'm gonna throw my tower out the window" crashes is I installed a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz soundcard and a second HDD for storage.
I have tried a fresh install with no scripts of any kind, still crashes. It's not heat because other more demanding games run for hours without problems. I have tried every sound setting in T2 and on my soundcard itself. I have uninstalled all my drivers and updated them all. I will be upgrading from 98 to XP very soon and will be reformatting my my primary HDD when I do, but that is the last thing I can think to try. If anyone has any ideas please let me know.
System Specs:
Athlon XP 1700
AZZA KT3-AV Mobo
768 Mb PC133 Ram
GeForce 3 64Mb
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound
Western Digital 8 gig, 5400rpm
Western Digital 80 gig, 7200rpm
DirectX 9.0a
Inland Optical Mouse
52x CD-ROM
52x24x52x CD-RW
Any ideas would be appreciated, as I said the last thing I can think of trying is the reformat that is coming anyway.
Killjoy 07-29-2003, 01:23 PM get directx 9b, update chipset drivers... does it do it even in Miles 2 positional audio? try backing up your clientprefs.cs and rebuild it from scratch....
-ReP- 07-29-2003, 01:48 PM I will try 9.0b and some older graphics card drivers... Miles was what was suggested by everyone so I use it. Chipset drivers are newest. I will try the clientprefs rebuild also, but a totally fresh install of T2 crashed the same way.
Dac346_99 07-29-2003, 03:20 PM good luck.
btw play tribes if it don't work, much better game.
-ReP- 07-29-2003, 04:59 PM well... directx 9.0b didn't help... older series drivers didn't help (but I may try more of them). What if I went back to directx 8?
r0gue3 07-29-2003, 09:49 PM ReP, do you do a scan of spyware every once in a while?
get spybot or adaware, it doesn't matter.
spybot (http://www.safer-networking.org/)
adaware (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/)
One of my buddys had a problem with the same stuff yer having quite a while ago (near the beginning of T2) and removing an instance of some spyware solved his problem.
Otherwise.. *sigh* reformat :|
-ReP- 07-29-2003, 11:34 PM thx bud <3 j00 but I have been running adaware daily for as long as I can remember. I appreciate it though.
It's the soundcard :\
Try direct sound if you can.
Thrax Panda 07-30-2003, 12:59 AM Agreed. T2 has many achilles heels, but it's achilles heel's achilles heel is sound.
-ReP- 07-30-2003, 01:03 AM It's the soundcard :\
Try direct sound if you can.
In T2 settings?
I agree Thrax only game I've ever seen where you set it to what is supposed to be better sound and it sounds worse... :|
alienkiller 07-30-2003, 01:17 AM take out the sound card and it will work perfectly
for a while when i got a radeon 8500, my old aureal vortex would cause lockups in ANY 3d i did. removed it, and not 1 after that.
-ReP- 07-30-2003, 02:00 AM holy sheep shit... I just played 2 maps with no lockups using direct sound in t2 settings... /me bows to ZOD. ty ty ty
Beren 07-30-2003, 05:10 AM Try direct sound if you can.
/me bows to ZOD.
:huh:
Of all the things ZOD has done, and recomending MS has elevated him to being worshiped...
-ReP- 07-30-2003, 11:49 AM He was already worshipped I was just doing the daily prayer. :D Stress testing the new settings today (aka playing a bunch). /me crosses fingers.
commonsense 07-30-2003, 11:51 AM hmm.. I've recently started ueing too.. never used to happen..
I'mma gonna try me some of these here stra-tir-gees
-ReP- 07-31-2003, 02:32 PM What about running 2 soundcards on the same system? Never done it before but couldn't you just switch hardware profiles and speaker wires? If it's possible I may just play T2 with an old SB16 Value and play the games that actually work on my Santa Cruz.
What about running 2 soundcards on the same system? Never done it before but couldn't you just switch hardware profiles and speaker wires? If it's possible I may just play T2 with an old SB16 Value and play the games that actually work on my Santa Cruz.
You probably can. Worth a shot.
-ReP- 08-02-2003, 12:25 PM Can't get 2 cards to work on 98... maybe it will work on XP if switching to XP doesn't fix the problem first.
-A- ...Lost? 08-02-2003, 04:09 PM MILES sound code is the bug.
(as evidenced by its removal in the SUPPORTED garage games torque engine)
MacGyver 08-02-2003, 10:06 PM KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!
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