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Topic: If you're experiencing hard locks... |
RamRod~rb |
General Member Since: Dec 23, 2006 Posts: 2332 Last: Dec 23, 2006 [view latest posts] |
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Category: SoFII General Posted: Friday, Jun. 7, 2002 09:19 pm |
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For those of you experiencing hard locks, I can just about guarantee it is hardware and/or driver related. It doesn't mean squat if other games ran fine.You are using driver components that have never been utilized before as this game taxes your system in ways no other game is capable of doing at the moment. If you're overclocking, drop it back to normal. For those of you that don't know, by bumping up your fsb you are overclocking everything. Perhaps your memory can't handle that. Or one of your pci cards. Or your agp slot or card. Blow out all your drivers and start over if need be. Video drivers first, then chipset, then the rest of your drivers. It's done in this order for a reason. Some vid card drivers install their own agp driver. Not good. Make sure you have the latest certified drivers for everything. Make sure you have proper cooling. Especially for these highend vid cards and processors. A lot of the cases I see on the market suck both in cooling and in power supplies. Be sure to disable any antivirus before installing anything. Especially drivers. It is not a gforce or an amd problem as I'm running both. Along with a via based soyo dragon+. If you're using one of those half breed boards with mixed chipsets for the northbridge and southbridge, they are known to have problems. Look for updated bios for you board as well as chipset drivers. Make sure you don't have a pci card in slot 1 if you vid card even allows for that. DO NOT mix memory types/speeds. This is a big no no. Again, just because it worked before doesn't mean squat. Ask Wid about this one. Ask Hammer about cooling the vid card. There may be bugs in the game, but I guarantee you some of your problems are on your end. A patch isn't going to help you if that's the case. Laugh, biscuit eater, flame all you want. I suggest you look into these things real serious like. If you don't know what you're doing, find someone who does. |
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kyleb~rb |
General Member Since: Dec 23, 2006 Posts: 283 Last: Dec 23, 2006 [view latest posts] |
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kyleb~rb |
General Member Since: Dec 23, 2006 Posts: 283 Last: Dec 23, 2006 [view latest posts] |
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RamRod~rb |
General Member Since: Dec 23, 2006 Posts: 2332 Last: Dec 23, 2006 [view latest posts] |
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Category: SoFII General Posted: Saturday, Jun. 8, 2002 01:30 am |
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I agree on the rimms. Hope it works for you. Not so I can say I'm right though. Just like to see you get it working. |
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kyleb~rb |
General Member Since: Dec 23, 2006 Posts: 283 Last: Dec 23, 2006 [view latest posts] |
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BoonieRat~rb |
General Member Since: Dec 23, 2006 Posts: 285 Last: Dec 23, 2006 [view latest posts] |
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Category: SoFII General Posted: Saturday, Jun. 8, 2002 10:26 am |
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I've tried useing different dets for my Gf3Ti500=no luck . I updated my IWill KA266-r to the latest BIOS=no luck . I updated my AGP/Chipset drivers for my ALi~chipset to the latest 1.90version=no luck . for my SoundB@stard live5.1(drivers only) there is no update! if anyone can point me towards some WDM drivers for the 5.1 for win98 i'd appreciate it and try them ... |
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RamRod~rb |
General Member Since: Dec 23, 2006 Posts: 2332 Last: Dec 23, 2006 [view latest posts] |
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RamRod~rb |
General Member Since: Dec 23, 2006 Posts: 2332 Last: Dec 23, 2006 [view latest posts] |
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Category: SoFII General Posted: Saturday, Jun. 8, 2002 02:29 pm |
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Quote (BoonieRat @ June 08 2002, 05:26) | I've tried useing different dets for my Gf3Ti500=no luck . I updated my IWill KA266-r to the latest BIOS=no luck . I updated my AGP/Chipset drivers for my ALi~chipset to the latest 1.90version=no luck . for my SoundB@stard live5.1(drivers only) there is no update! if anyone can point me towards some WDM drivers for the 5.1 for win98 i'd appreciate it and try them ... |
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I had no luck finding any new drivers for you either. Might I suggest since you are using 98 that perhaps you could have an irq conflict with that card. Try one these sugestions. Move that card to a different slot. Remove it altogether and see if the problem goes away.
Judging from Kylebs post and another in this forum as well as several emails and PMs I received overnight, this thread has helped a few people resolve their lockups. Glad to hear it.
So I'll pin it in hopes it might help others resolve their problems as well. |
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BoonieRat~rb |
General Member Since: Dec 23, 2006 Posts: 285 Last: Dec 23, 2006 [view latest posts] |
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Category: SoFII General Posted: Saturday, Jun. 8, 2002 02:57 pm |
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I moved the soundblaster a while back before i installed SoF(it was sharing an IRQ with the AGP slot! but now they both got there own IRQ's. the only thing they share with are IRQ holders for PCI steering(whatever that is! . there are'nt any conflicts though. i checked for them... I have tried another reinstall, but no joy... |
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Unowned~rb |
General Member Since: Dec 23, 2006 Posts: 4 Last: Dec 23, 2006 [view latest posts] |
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Category: SoFII General Posted: Saturday, Jun. 8, 2002 03:24 pm |
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I do not think my lock ups/reboots are hardware related. In win2k, i can run mutiplayer FINE, no problems, works 100%. In win2k, single player locks up, reboots, crashes etc. In winxp, when I start multiplayer, the PC reboots instantly. In winxp, I can SOMETIMES play single player WITHOUT A PROBLEM, works great, love the gore, good fps @ 1280x1024. Other times, crashes 1 sec into the game, 10 seconds in, or just doesn't load at all. I can however, run random missions with much more success, no problems with those. So, this is NOT a hardware problem, sorry to say. I re installed all my drivers, and all the critical updates etc for winxp are installed. No new bios is available for my board. I have not overclocked anything, and I know the CPU/System temp are fine. My ram is not in high performance mode, all settings are default. I have tried in high performance mode, with custom settings, still does not work. This is a case of some real bad bugs in the game. Lack of QA? I dunno, I hope the up-coming patch sorts these problems out. |
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