total system freezes - help!

Mon Mar 17, 2003 4:19 pm by adoniram7

Hey folks -

Just got the game Friday. Here's the deal:

System:
AMD 2000+
762mb RAM
ATI Radeon 9000 pro
defragmented hard drives
creative sb live

The original OS was windows 2000 pro.

Symptom: total system freeze during play - happened
at any time during the game - initial menus, firefights,
docking, landing, trading, etc.

This is a system that has run Morrowind bug-free, which is,
as some of you may know, amazing.

I completely reloaded with Windows XP Pro, latest catalyst 3.2
drivers, directX 9 (I was already running direct9), latest
creative soundblaster drivers, service pack 1, and etc.

I have tried literally every single setting for the ATI card:
one notch down, fast write off/on, optimize for performance,
optimize for quality (open gl and direct x), many different
resolutions (desktop and in-game), every single option in-game,
from reduced performance on.

This is definitely an ATI/Freelancer problem, as it's the monitor
that dies (I've had the monitor die to the point of geting "no signal"

.

So, anybody else have this problem? Have there been any
headway in getting this resolved?

Great game, just wish I didn't have to re-play the same scenario
a kabillion times hoping and praying it doesn't lock until after the
next time the game is saved.

Thanks much for any help you can give here,

adoniram7

Tue Mar 18, 2003 2:11 pm by datafreelancer

seems to be a few of us now with same probs

CAN ANYONE HELP US

if there is a MS employee here , tell yer bosses not to realease a product UNTIL ITS FULLY TESTED

Tue Mar 18, 2003 6:24 pm by 707

I just get kicked out to the desktop - no warnings or messages.However the game does not recognize my ATI 9500 Pro card (even with the latest drivers) when I start up..

Tue Mar 18, 2003 7:05 pm by adoniram7

Just to add more pain to the issue: I reloaded about five
times over the last few days. Once, it actually worked
for a whole half hour straight! Er, but it's since degraded
to the point that, again, I can't make any progress (i.e.
let's all lock up before the game is saved routine).

The only possible thing left to do is to upgrade the BIOS
and drivers on my AMD motherboard. I've tried literally
everything else.

This is one of the coolest games out there, too. What
a shame!

adoniram7

Wed Mar 19, 2003 10:24 am by datafreelancer

true i agree it does look good, and i so wish to get somewhere, i actually managed to go from leeds to new berlin without a crash, sold me berilium and then no joke 7 -10 secs later . AAAA freezeup, but i did manage to save JUST before, so reset time, load up , load save game, leave docking,...."freelancer you are welcome to "....AAAAA freezeup, reset, goto add remove programs, find FL, goodbye!!

i might pop in sometime if 9.1 is released and will wait till then cya, its not worth the stress and hassle, i just wish me other games would work, but never mind, i hear theres a rather dodgey flight sim in MS Word

Wed Mar 19, 2003 8:59 pm by adoniram7

Note, that this game plays perfectly on my laptop with
a G-Force 2go (resolution ain't great, had to turn down
in-game performance and go to 16-bit, but NO lockups!)

I'm running an ATI 9000 pro. What is everybody else
running? Maybe we can get a concensus.

adoniram7

Wed Mar 19, 2003 9:10 pm by DaGnome

Running XP, P4 2.4, GF4600, 512 Mb RAM.

The game worked perfectly to begin with, I've run thru the SP once and then
some trading and pirating. Decided to run SP from the start and it worked
until mission 10. Then suddenly it crashes whenever I try to continue
with the storyline.
In the eventlog it says event-id 1000 and "freelancer.exe; 1.0.1223.11; common.dll; 1.0.1223.11; 00091eb8."

I've changed nothing in the comp., so why does this happen and how do
I solve it?

//DaGnome

Wed Apr 30, 2003 7:09 am by uboel

Freelancer was running perfectly with my GeForce4 Ti 4600. Yesterday, I installed a Radeon 9800 Pro...and Freelancer starts freezing in the main menu...
This morning I installed a beta version of the Catalyst 3.3 drivers. I'm now able to load a saved game and to go into space....but the game freeze when I switch to the menu, pressing the F1 key...

As it seems impossible to get support or to find any intersting information at Microsoft, I try here...

Cheers

Ulric Boel

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