Random crashes to Desktop

Mon Apr 07, 2003 4:10 am by Wydom@ker

I am having problems with Freelancer crashing to desktop. Windows 2000 Pro comes up with the send an error report dialog, mouse has locked up so have to use keyboard to send or not send and then the system frees up and the mouse works again. The mouse is a USB Logitech.

The crashes seem to happen when I return to space. There seems to always be ships flying infront of my ship and the Game narrator starts giving the mission brief when the game crashes part way through the Brief. The sound continues, narrator and background, after the game has been replaced by the desktop. The error report dialog pops up after the sound finishes.

I have the latest C-Media, onboard sound, drivers available via Windows Update, and I have just rolled back to nVidia 41.09 drivers for my GeForce 256 (64M

.

More system details:
CPU: AMD XP 1600+
RAM: 512MB SD-RAM

Any help would be appreciated.

Winners never Quit, Quitters never Win

Mon Apr 07, 2003 3:16 pm by natespizer

Im having the exact same error i had it working over the weekend and boom moday morn rools around and crashs to desktop once i go to space. Nothing changed with my computer between last ngiht and today im now pissed and actually two days ago asame thing happened to my roomate.

1.4 t bird
1 gb ram
gf3 64 mb
XP PRO no sp
SB Audigy

and it was workign 12 hours ago with out any changes grrr

and my roomates spec
ecs board
1800 XP
on board sound
Radeon 7500
512 ram

lets get this game figured out ud think it wouldnt be this buggy

Tue Apr 08, 2003 3:29 am by supermoose

exact same problem here... to me and my friend
my PC stats are:
P4 2.4GHz northwood
G4 GeForce 4 Ti 4200 128MB
80 Gig. HD
XP Pro
Integerated Sound on2 my Mainboard
845G Max MSI Mainboard
512MB ram... (possibily 3300 DDR or whatever)

i dont know exactly bout my friends PC but it is very close to mine
P4 2.4GHz
G4 GeForce 4 Ti 4600 128MB
Win 98 SE
but that is all i kno bout hiz
PLEASE HELP US!!!!!

Tue Apr 08, 2003 5:14 am by Kermit12a

Hi

I have the same problem.
The only thing that I can see that is the same through out the posts is that everyone is running On-Board Sound. My flatmate has no problems and the biggest difference is that he has a stand alone sound card.

Tue Apr 08, 2003 10:19 am by Wydom@ker

Unfortunitely natespizer states he/she has an SB Audigy sound card.

Winners never Quit, Quitters never Win

Edited by - wydom@ker on 08-04-2003 11:19:49

Wed Apr 09, 2003 1:37 am by BeerGuy

Same crash to desktop problem with a friend's system that I just upgraded for him. No error messages, just instant quit to desktop. Everything is functional, no lock-ups after the crash...just no game either.

P4 2.4B
Gigabyte GA-8SQ800
2x256MB OCZ PC3200 DDR
ATI Radeon 8500LE 128MB w/Catalyst 3.2
40GB Maxtor ATA100
Onboard AC97 sound
350W Power Supply
Win XP Pro SP1
Direct X 9.0a

This wasn't a clean install, but rather a change-and-go upgrade of hardware. I am willing to believe there could be myriad problems with old software, drivers, etc. on the hard drive from the previous config, but since so many are having the same type of crash, I tend to think there is a specific cause associated with this.

Wed Apr 09, 2003 11:14 pm by mr.Wabbit

Did you modify yor ini's? it wont work whith modified ini's so grab the original ini's from the downloads page

Thu Apr 10, 2003 1:59 am by Wydom@ker

Have had an interesting development, of sorts. Just got my hands on the Demo. Installed it and played it for 5 hours straight - no crashes! Have taken every mission that crashes in the Full game without a single problem, other than getting roughed up by the emermy.

So, whatever is causing the crashes does not exist in the Demo.

Winners never Quit, Quitters never Win

Sat Apr 12, 2003 1:29 am by Wydom@ker

Well, I seem to have solved my crash problem - to a certain extent at least. The trick seems to have been to reduce the load on my Geforce card. Here's what I did:
- Reduce the hardware acceleration to the minimum FL will run with.
- Reduce the FL graphic details a notch or two
- Reduce to nothing, the Background Stars slider under Detail *** this seems to have made the biggest impact
- Reduce Space Detail to about 50%
- Turn off the Dynamic Comms window
- Turn off Background Dust
- Turn off 3D sound

Now I only seem to crash when I try to go to the Commodity Trader on Manhatten and other similar planets. FL crashes when it tries to start the intro sequence for the Trader. On stations and outside traders on planets, the intro does not cause a crash.

Thus far I've played continuously for quite a few hours without an in-space crash - although I have died a few times :

Winners never Quit, Quitters never Win

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