Wed Mar 26, 2003 10:19 pm
Solved a recurring lock up problem! Info here.
I don't know if anybody has had this problem, where Feelancer ran without any problems for 2 weeks, but as soon as I upgraded MB's, Freelancer would lock 30 seconds into flight, no matter what I did. On base, in the bar, menus, movies were all OK, though. Here's my specs:
ASUS A7V8X Athlon XP 2200+ Thoroughbred, 512 DDR, ATI Radeon 9500 Pro w/128 meg, Catalyst 3.2 drivers, Win XP Pro (SP 1)
I had a SOYO board with XP 1700+ in it. Once I swapped them and updated a few drivers, I couldn't fly for more than 30 seconds before I would get a hard lock (sometimes even a reboot). I tried new drivers, tons of settings, I even wiped the drive and re-installed XP with all the updates and SP1. Nothing worked. Finally I went into the SmartGart setting in the ATI control panel. My old board was a 4x AGP board, the new one is an 8x. Sure enough as soon as I turned it down to 4x, I could play just fine. No lockups again (and my FPS stayed around 145 w/4x AA and 16x Anisotropic). So, if you're having intermittent lockup problems (or recurring like me) try the AGP multiplier setting in either the control panel (if there) or the bios. The other thing to try is turn on/off fast writes to the AGP port. Later.
ASUS A7V8X Athlon XP 2200+ Thoroughbred, 512 DDR, ATI Radeon 9500 Pro w/128 meg, Catalyst 3.2 drivers, Win XP Pro (SP 1)
I had a SOYO board with XP 1700+ in it. Once I swapped them and updated a few drivers, I couldn't fly for more than 30 seconds before I would get a hard lock (sometimes even a reboot). I tried new drivers, tons of settings, I even wiped the drive and re-installed XP with all the updates and SP1. Nothing worked. Finally I went into the SmartGart setting in the ATI control panel. My old board was a 4x AGP board, the new one is an 8x. Sure enough as soon as I turned it down to 4x, I could play just fine. No lockups again (and my FPS stayed around 145 w/4x AA and 16x Anisotropic). So, if you're having intermittent lockup problems (or recurring like me) try the AGP multiplier setting in either the control panel (if there) or the bios. The other thing to try is turn on/off fast writes to the AGP port. Later.