Hi people,
i have some weird problem, sof2 is freezing on my machine. Sometimes i can play 3 or 4 hours and all runs fine, othertimes i got a freeze after 10 min. The picture is freezed and throu my speakers i hear a beep, that doesnt stop until i hit the resetbutton.
I have this since 2 months i think, i reinstalled windows several times, cleared my harddisk, updated my bios, reinstalled sof2 several times, put out my tv-card, cleaned my pc  and asked everyone i know, but it keeps freezin.

I use a 1,4 athlon thunderbird on a elitegroup mainboard with via chipset, 512 mb sd-ram and a radeon 9700 pro (don´t lough a better cpu will follow when i got money   )

The Freezes are very annoying, so it would be very nice if anyone can help me or make suggestions.

Greets
Mr. Wolf

Ravensoft...please help here..I am having the exact problem.  A lot of people are having this problem...we are playing sof2 fine for the longest time..then out of no where...we are having freezes and reboots.

I thought I fixed mine..but it started again.

DirectX version?
DirectSound?
Vid Card?
Sound Card?
What Servers?
What Maps?

wiser2?

i've posted my specs too many times.....I have a 2 page post going now about my problem...it will not get fixed...unless I can manage to configure my hardware so absurdly that it accomodates sof2.

Beefyman, i use DirectX 9 with Catalyst 3.1. Drivers.
I have a Terratec DMX Soundcard, it is DirectSound compatible, but not WinXP compatible, so i use it with standard xp drivers. They work fine i think or does this effect my problem?

The freezes occcure an all maps and servers.

I forgot to tell ya, that i had massive installation problems. If i install sof2 normally via cd i will get a bluescreen and the pc reboots. Only copying cd1 to my hdd and copying the pk3-files manually in its directories worked for me.
Whats wrong with my machine, anything other runs fine  

Hmm... I think you may need to set your registry values manually then, I'm not sure if it would be legal for me to post them here so I would ask them...  And also make sure you have your cd key in sof2key file in the sof2/base/mp folder in lowercase and without dashes on the first line.
(i.e. xxx111xxx111)

If not, try looking for different sound drivers, preferrably from your manufacturer, it looks like it could be a sound problem based on the beep...

If not... check your graphics drivers.

CPU is fine dude, I got a 1.67GHz and it's doin me great.

Thanks for your reply beefyman,
I have a registry key "ravensoftware/sof2", u said i have to set the values manually then, what should i set?
My key is ok. My soundcard manufactor provides no xp drivers for this card, as i said before i use standard xp driver. hmmmm

10 minutes ago the freeze happend again, after 2 hours smooth gaming , i looked in the eventlog under windows and it said the following:

AMLI: ACPI-BIOS tries to write into the unvaild E/A-Portadresse (0xcf8),which is located in a protected area: "0xcf8 - 0xcff". This can cause system instability. Contact the manufacturer for technical help.

AMLI: ACPI-BIOS tries to read at the unvaild E/A-Portadresse (0xcfc),which is located in a protected area: "0xcf8 - 0xcff". This can cause system instability. Contact the manufacturer for technical help.

AMLI: ACPI-BIOS tries to write into the unvaild E/A-Portadresse (0x70),which is located in a protected area: "0x70 - 0x71". This can cause system instability. Contact the manufacturer for technical help.

AMLI: ACPI-BIOS tries to read at the unvaild E/A-Portadresse (0x70),which is located in a protected area: "0x70 - 0x71". This can cause system instability. Contact the manufacturer for technical help. (Translated)

What does that mean? Can anyone help?

Thx Spike, i will check this and try out.

Doesn't the acpi have to do with the power conservation features of the motherboard/windows?

I believe so... It would almost definitely be a BIOS problem then, you seem to be having no problem with your registry.  The only problem would be in an automatic update.