JediNyt Posted September 21, 2003 Share Posted September 21, 2003 I dont see any crash threads around so I guess Ill make one for people to post about their game crashing. I just got the game and I havent even been able to get a character name yet cause the game crashes almost right after I choose a galaxy. (Btw what are galaxies? Are they servers? Do I have to create a new character if I go to a different galaxy?) Anyway my screen goes black and the sound screeches and I have to force restart. Help please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DarthMaulUK Posted September 21, 2003 Share Posted September 21, 2003 Get used to it. Many thousands are crashing. I am one of them who hasnt had a single day without the game crashing at launch. Sony will blame everything apart from themselves. They recently blamed my ISP who have done trace routes now etc and put the blame firmly on the software...oh hang on...thats Sony! Do you know how to run a dxdiag check? Sony 'tech support' look at this for fun then blame something totally random... like your RAM not having the same serial number (which, yes, would make it all 1 stick!) However, make sure that you have the very latest drivers and by saying ' i only bought it 3 days ago' doesnt mean that you have the latest drivers. Visit the website for your graphics card maker, down load it then see how you get on. Galaxies is graphically challenged, so make sure your settings are turned down. I ran this game on a 256 MB graphics card and it still sucked. Try this and comeback screaming! ;-) DMUK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deft Aklin Posted September 21, 2003 Share Posted September 21, 2003 Originally posted by JediNyt I dont see any crash threads around so I guess Ill make one for people to post about their game crashing. I just got the game and I havent even been able to get a character name yet cause the game crashes almost right after I choose a galaxy. (Btw what are galaxies? Are they servers? Do I have to create a new character if I go to a different galaxy?) Anyway my screen goes black and the sound screeches and I have to force restart. Help please! Are you running ZoneAlarm? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JediNyt Posted September 21, 2003 Author Share Posted September 21, 2003 I dont have Zonealarm, I dont even know what it is. Anyways Im tempted to take the dam game back. Ive tried everything. Emailing tech support, chat rooms, forums, tweaking settings, etc. and nothing changes. Ive always had problems with games and this one is the worst. My free 30 days are gonna go down the toilet I know it. Well Circuit City will take it back no hassles so I can get my money back at least. Maybe I just got a lemon of a machine who knows. Thx for trying to help me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaos047 Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 I never once have had a crash(knocks on wood). If you have tried everything you can think of i dont know what to tell you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DarthMaulUK Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 i spent the last couple of days out of my 30 playing as that was when it actually started to work. When i get home tonight, I will let you know what i did. In the meantime, can you please post your PC specs, including your graphics card, RAM and processor. (mine is) 2.4 Athlon 1.1 gig ram 9600 ATI pro graphics card (128mb) DMUK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JediNyt Posted September 23, 2003 Author Share Posted September 23, 2003 amd athlon 1900xp 1.6 ghz 512 ram ati radeon 9800 pro 128 mb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DarthMaulUK Posted September 23, 2003 Share Posted September 23, 2003 Cool. Thanks. When i get home, I will check the settings on my BIOS and also graphic settings. A few things have to be turned off because the game needs what i call 'total control' over the graphic settings as these change alot. I still crash. Once when i first finally load up the game. Then once in game i crash when using shuttles/death blown. Sony blamed my ISP but its the software thats causing problems. Something they seem to be ignoring to fix. Are you running Windows XP? Visit the ATI website and download Display Driver, Control Panel, WDM Capture driver ONLY IF YOU HAVE WINDOWS XP http://www.atitech.com/support/drivers/winxp/radeonwdm-xp.html?type=xp&prodType=graphic&prod=productsXPdriver&submit.x=2&submit.y=3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DarthMaulUK Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 The following is my system configuration in hopes that some light may be shed on the Radeon lock-up problems. I offer it up as sort of a "reference" system: Windows XP Home SP1 with all of the current updates installed. AMD Athlon XP 2400+ DirectX 9.0a (4.09.0000.0901 Downloaded from Microsoft...) 1024 266 DDR RAM ASUS A7V333 MB with VIA chipset Recent BIOS (3/2003) Latest VIA Drivers (Hyperion 4in1448) Latest ATI Release (not Beta) drivers Cat 3.5 6.14.10.6360 SMARTGART Installed and running fine on top of the VIA AGP driver 450 Watt Power Supply My BIOS settings are set to the standard default and safe settings, my CPU is not overclocked, and my memory settings are not tweaked in any way. Just the default safe and "slow" settings. Some of my BIOS settings: System Performance is set to "Optimal", not "Turbo". SDRAM Configuration is set to "BY SPD" which disables many of the unstable tweaks. All of the other memory settings are set to "Auto". AGP Apurture Size is set to "128". AGP Drive Strength is set to "Auto". This compensates for any momentary power draws to the AGP slot. AGP Performance Control is set to "Enabled". (Not sure what thisdoes, but it's the default setting...) AGP Fast Write Control is set to "Enabled". Video Memory Cache Mode is set to "USWC", not "UC". UC is the default, but USWC allows for speculative write combining which the Radeons support. Some of my Radeon driver settings are: Troubleshooting Tab: Hardware Video Accelleration is at Full. Enable Write Combining is checked on. SMARTGART Tab: AGP Speed is set to 4X (the maximium my MB supports...) Fast Write is checked on. (Also, I did not uninstall AMARTGART as has been suggested. On my system, SMARTGART seems to work just fine with the VIA AGP drivers.) Direct X Tab: Main Settings are set to "Balanced". Anti-Aliasing is set to "Application Preference". Anisotropic Filtering is set to "Application Preference". Note: SWG does not support the above AA nor AF, so SWG MUST be able to turn these off. If not, then this could lead to game instabilities. Texture Preference is set to the highest quality setting. Mipmap Detail is set to the highest quality setting: Vert Sync is set to "Application Preference". Note: Again, this feature is controlled by SWG and SWG MUST be able to turn this feature on or off through it's game options. TRUFORM is set to "Always Off". IN DXDiag, the "AGP Texture Acceleration is "Enabled" with no grayed out box. I get 22-29 FPS in the wild and 16-18 FPS in the city Always becareful of messing with your BIOS. Ive done this to my PC and although I still have some crashes, i can at least play the game. It took me 3 weeks and after doing this, i sat back and it launched! DMUK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EsahC Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 Theres your problem bro! ATI and VIA do NOT get along. I stopped getting VIA chipsets because they are horrible when it comes to ATI. 133 had it 133a didnt. I had that exact same board and had a ATI 9800 pro in it and all it did was crash and casue problems because VIA seems to have a problem with ATI cards. I had also tried it with a 9500 and a 9000 and I had the same problems. I know tons of people have these same problems. If your lucky you dont. Most people I know who have this, and the groups I talk to, do have a problem with VIA and ATI together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Gaarni Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 Hmmm, guess it wasn't the game after all. No, seriously, if that's the case, maybe your problems will be solved now, DMUK? I truly hope so. To crash as much as you do, I couldn't take it myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DarthMaulUK Posted September 25, 2003 Share Posted September 25, 2003 ah yes i know. i do put up with alot. But there is something going on with the game graphics when it loads and the graphics cards. It happens on both nvidea and ATi cards. Havent put my finger on it yet.....but its something there. If it wasnt for the guy who posted that Tech info i posted here, i would not be playing the game. A true life saver...kind of as it still crashes alot. DMUK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JediNyt Posted September 25, 2003 Author Share Posted September 25, 2003 I talked to Sony and they said I need to get AGP texture acceleration working in Direct X for the game to work. So Im gonna have to reinstall Direct X and my video drivers to try to get that enabled. I dont know if I have to uninstall all of it first so I sent an email asking them. I also dusted and vaccumed my comp just in case it was overheating. I dunno, its still nice to have a clean comp. Tomorrow I might know if all this works so we'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DarthMaulUK Posted September 25, 2003 Share Posted September 25, 2003 As i have said in previous posts. Sony will blame everything on your PC. Overheating is rubbish. My PCs case is open because i was told the same and I still crash. but fingers crossed DMUK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EsahC Posted September 25, 2003 Share Posted September 25, 2003 DMUK get a new motherboard bro, shell out 100$ for the asus a7n8x, I PROMISE you that it will run flawless! Just turn off border and click run in a window otherwise you wil have an odd green color and some other colors messing with ya. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gravitar Posted September 27, 2003 Share Posted September 27, 2003 alright here's my problem I can play the game, but after about 10 - 30 minutes it freezes, then it corrects itself but all I see is a grey screen. I have a P4 2.4 W/ HT 1 Gig DDR Radeon 9600 and 9200 (I tried it with both cards and got the same result, though the 9600 lasted longer ) I installed the newest drivers, newest directx, and tried to set all my settings the same as what he had before, and it still crashes after about 10 - 15 minutes now instead of yesterday I was getting 30 minutes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deft Aklin Posted September 27, 2003 Share Posted September 27, 2003 Okay, let me run down the list: 1) Is your Zbuffer enabled? If you go to virtual memory because your RAM is full of uneeded graphic info, it can do this. 2) DId you update windows? 3) Set your graphics crad settings to default and try it. Seeing if perhaps you have done some grievious error in the settings. 4) Try doing a full scan on SWG. Now we'll do the basic 'Make the game work right stuff' 1) Run a virus scan 2) Check for BIOS updates. 3) Update your drivers 4) Update Windows 5) Full scan SWG 6) Defrag your drive 7) Then try again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gravitar Posted September 27, 2003 Share Posted September 27, 2003 check this out I can not turn on Fast Write wtf? grrr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deft Aklin Posted September 27, 2003 Share Posted September 27, 2003 IS there possibly a setting locking it that way? A default setting button or something? I know in ATI cards it automatically switches to custom when you change something, but you can't activate certain things without switching from application preference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gravitar Posted September 28, 2003 Share Posted September 28, 2003 every thing is set to default I set the Fast Write and AGP to default which is On and 4x, it says it needs to restarted to apply, I restart, and it set to 8x and Off it won't reset to On and it's pissing me off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gravitar Posted September 28, 2003 Share Posted September 28, 2003 This is the only thing I can think of to try and get it to work reformat haha if that doesn't work, then I'm screwed We'll see what happens eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DarthMaulUK Posted September 29, 2003 Share Posted September 29, 2003 Re formatting wont work. If you follow what I posted earlier, that should help. Its something to do with the graphic settings. I am almost certain of that. AGP plays a part in it DMUK PS: someone mentioned about getting a new motherboard...everything in my PC is new Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gravitar Posted September 30, 2003 Share Posted September 30, 2003 I did follow everything you said except the fast write and it won't let me turn it on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gravitar Posted September 30, 2003 Share Posted September 30, 2003 blah slow internet made me double post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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