Gondor Posted April 4, 2002 Share Posted April 4, 2002 Athlon 600 128mb ram 133mhz Geforce 2 mx400 w/28.32 drivers Sb Awe64 or the SB live value Windows XP home The problems are when i play and its been crashing more than just pausing at times. The crashes basically happen like this... Im playing the game and at different times the game freezes and the sound loops. While i try to do "Ctrl-Alt_del" or "Hit the start button on the keyboard" it goes to the desktop and the whole desktop looks like the Gamma or brightness is turned up extremely high. I have to reboot to clear the desktop. I noticed that when it freezes the hardrive light goes beserk... When all this starts the game stutters then the above happens. Sometimes When the freezing happens it subsides and it unfreezes and it can play again. Whats going on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aisandler Posted April 4, 2002 Share Posted April 4, 2002 Welcome to the club.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Lazzz Posted April 4, 2002 Share Posted April 4, 2002 Turn all your video options down and keep VOLUMETRIC SHADOWS and ANISOTROPIC FILTERING switched off, Switching off GL EXTENTIONS will help also but give you a framerate hit. Try also keeping the desktop set at the same colour depth and resolution as the game that can sometimes stabilise Q3 based games - (I had to do that just to get MOH to run!) Reading through many posts the other night I get the impression that the 28.32 drivers may not be that great so you might try the 27.70 drivers from nVidia as these have worked for me. Best of luck. Lazzz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPF Posted April 4, 2002 Share Posted April 4, 2002 I've been having the same crashing on loading levels. This is what I have had to do to play. Before I start a single-player game, I disable my NIC (network card). I noticed that after a crash, I lost networking, and after some false starts, I finally found that disabling my NIC solved the map change crash. Also, I checked my directx by starting the main menu, selecting Help, then selecting Analyze Your Computer. I then went to DirectX Diagnostics, and selected the Display tab at the top. I noticed that when I tested Direct3d, the diagnostic would hang on a white screen. I selected Install DirectX 8.0a, which would repair the system to where it would play the diagnostic with no errors. __________________________ System: (nothing overclocked) Athlon 1.3 Ghz Transcend AKT4/A Motherboard 512 Mb RAM (Crucial brand) ATI Radeon 64Meg DDR VIVO (reference drivers) SB Live MP3 version 3Com 905b PCI NIC OS: XP Professional (all patches) _______________________________ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest skooby1doo Posted April 4, 2002 Share Posted April 4, 2002 Originally posted by Kahunaman Easy problem to fix, GForce 2 user should not upgrade their driver to the latest. Stick to Detonator version 21.83 Newer version are developped for GForce 3 and 4 ... Even if they are supposed to be compatible, they are not as stable for GForce 2 card. Also you'll see in file TROUBLE.DOC with the game that RAVEN have develop the game using Nvidia driver v23.11 This is a common problem for GForce2 user (one game out of 10 have this problem using new driver on GForce 2 card) http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=432765 try this i have a geforce 2 gts and i had the newest drivres from nividia and whent and i was getting the same problem as you the n i whent down to the 23.xx(cant remeber iam not at home now to check sorry) but the frezzeing didnt stop but it didnt happen as often i cn play for a good 30mins to and 1hr then after that it crashs avery 10-20 mins iam going to go to down to det vr 21.xx and see what happens when i get home system spec p3 667 512 ram xp/2k pro/98(i have tried the game on all these os's and still the same thing) geforce 2 gts 32mb let me know what happens ill let ya know f it works if i do t first respect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gondor Posted April 4, 2002 Author Share Posted April 4, 2002 Could the problem be a paging issue or hardrive issue... Becuase when it crashes my hardrive light goes bonkers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest skooby1doo Posted April 4, 2002 Share Posted April 4, 2002 i really dont think so cause i have the same problem with 2k pro/xp with c&c renegade i couldnt install that reformated and put on 98 it istalled but it keeps crashing every 30min to an hour and with jk2 i installed it fine in xp but it keeped crashing i havent tried it in 98 yet cause i took it off thanks to my sister but ya i really beleive its my vid card i havent seen my hard drive go crazy but ill look for it next time respect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrazyDude Posted April 4, 2002 Share Posted April 4, 2002 It is best to use the latest nvidia drivers as they fix the infinite loop problem of before. This fixes 99% of blue screen crashes, and other crashes you may have. Also try to keep he color correction at off. I noticed this helps. The game still crashes but i can't help that. It crashes maybe once every hour or so. My best bet is it is because microsoft has yet to verify any new nvidia drivers. This being said, lets blame it all on microsoft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest skooby1doo Posted April 4, 2002 Share Posted April 4, 2002 ya thats why i think this is all happening because of that dam digital signature in xp and 2k pro on 98 i dont have that many problems like mabye 1 or 2 but as for the newest drivers i dont think they are taht good for the geforce 2 vids cause i had the newset but it crashed a lot more often then when i went down to some older drivers and when i get home iam going to some a littel bit older to see if i cant fix this permently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrazyDude Posted April 4, 2002 Share Posted April 4, 2002 my bad i forgot to mention. I am on a geforce3 ti200, but since the drivers are all of the same frame reference we still all in same dish. The latest drivers fix the infinite loop thing for my card for sure. But as i said, try messing around with your card settings. After i turned off color correction i haven't crashed for a long long while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest skooby1doo Posted April 4, 2002 Share Posted April 4, 2002 ya i dont think that i tried that but ill try that and see what happens thanks ill do that first and play it but if it keeps crashing then iam going to a older version driver respect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gondor Posted April 4, 2002 Author Share Posted April 4, 2002 I have installed the 23.11 drivers and where do i turn off color correction??? With that and the drivers i will let you know what happens?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Omedarcus Posted April 4, 2002 Share Posted April 4, 2002 I'm also having that problem whre the game crashes when playing with bots. I have the right drivers for my geforce 2 and my system is really fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aisandler Posted April 4, 2002 Share Posted April 4, 2002 P3 550mhz 256megs Ram Win XP Pro Geforce 2 MX/400 w/Latest Detonator XP drivers. Running @ 800x600 in 32bit without a hitch except for freezing/sound looping every 15-30mins, problem is reported as Nvidia_Disp.dll responsible. Changing Hunkmegs to 170 (2/3 of 256) seems to have bought me more time, but the crash is still inevitable. I tried installing the 23.11 drivers and when attempting to run the game, it gives me the GL_Subsystem Error (or whatever that common GL error is called). How are people with a Geforce 2 running the game with the 23.11 drivers? When I download them from the Nvidia site, they are labeled "Stereo 3D" drivers or something to that effect. Am I downloading the correct drivers? Adam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gondor Posted April 5, 2002 Author Share Posted April 5, 2002 I have played the game with the 23.11 drivers and it gives me pretty poor performance. Stuttering of graphics it paused two or three times. When i try to play the game and run or something it stutters to the point of i might get killed?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest skooby1doo Posted April 5, 2002 Share Posted April 5, 2002 ya i was useing the 27.xx drivers then i when to the 23.11 and that didnt work if anything it was worse so then i got to the 21.xx and same thing it was worse so i say **** it i whent back to the 27.83 and it didnt work it still crash even more now so now iam going to format and put 98 on and dual boot xp **** i dont know what to do ill let yall know what happens respect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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