Sat Dec 11, 2004 11:21 am
game crash when flying a few minutes in space
Hello everybody!
Before I explain what's going on, please allow me to make clear that I have checked almost every single topic in the "Freelancer Technical Issues" board (this board) concerning my problem.
What I found in those topics (about 15 to 20 topics) is that alot of people with relatively new video cards crash out of Freelancer or have a sudden computer restart.
I just got a new pc, Intel Pentium 4 HT processor with 512 Mb RAM and a GeForce 6610 XL video card, 3400 Mhz processing speed. Windows XP Home Edition with SP2...
I have a legal version of Freelancer which I used to play on my older pc (which had a GeForce 2 MX). The game worked perfectly on that old pc. I never had lag or bad FPS, it just worked perfectly.
I installed Freelancer on my new pc, hoping to play on my favorite Jolt server again. When I first started I got the infamous "Video card is not recognized"-message (you all probably know what I mean). I clicked continue, having one of the newest cards currently available, therefore feeling safe. After having configured my settings, I connected with the Jolt server.
I started on planet Manhattan, looked around a bit (like 5 minutes or so) and then I launched into space. After just 2 minutes in flight the game froze for like 2 seconds and suddenly my pc restarted.
I tried launching Freelancer again, I connected to Jolt, went into space... and the same thing happened... And a third time! I went to the Microsoft tech support page. There's a way to prevent your pc from restarting when you have a system error. I did that.
So I went back to Freelancer. I just selected a random multiplayer server which I could join but after 2 - 3 minutes of flight the game froze. This time I had a beautiful error message (because I disabled auto-restart). It's all in Dutch so I didn't translate it yet (I live in Holland if you want to know) but I noticed something about a video card driver.
This pc is about two weeks old, but just to be certain I checked my driver and DirectX version... ForceWare v66.93 and DirectX v9.0c...
I tried tons of things, including:
-A "clean" startup of my pc (execute "msconfig"...)
-Cranking down hardware acceleration by TWO notches (as suggested by a topic)
and tons and tons more...
In the few minutes I managed to play I detected no sound problems... I heard dialog, background music, gun sounds, everything and therefore I did not follow instructions displayed in the nine-page stickied topic.
Bottom line: I AM DESPERATE! I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING!
I REALLY REALLY like this game and I REALLY REALLY want to play it again. I've read through 20 topics and I've tried alot of things to NO AVAIL... IT KEEPS FREEZING FOLLOWED BY THIS AWKWARD BULLSH*T ERROR!
Could somebody please help a desperate freelancer?
Edit: Just for the record, one of the latest and most GPU (video card) demanding games, H A L F - L I F E 2, runs smoothly on my pc with almost every setting at maximum. UT2004 runs really great, the Painkiller demo works great, NFSU 2 works great, HALO runs amazing, even DOOM 3 runs pretty good (almost everything at maximum)... So what could possibly be my problem?
Edited by - J-M v2.5.5 on 12/11/2004 2:38:18 PM
Before I explain what's going on, please allow me to make clear that I have checked almost every single topic in the "Freelancer Technical Issues" board (this board) concerning my problem.
What I found in those topics (about 15 to 20 topics) is that alot of people with relatively new video cards crash out of Freelancer or have a sudden computer restart.
I just got a new pc, Intel Pentium 4 HT processor with 512 Mb RAM and a GeForce 6610 XL video card, 3400 Mhz processing speed. Windows XP Home Edition with SP2...
I have a legal version of Freelancer which I used to play on my older pc (which had a GeForce 2 MX). The game worked perfectly on that old pc. I never had lag or bad FPS, it just worked perfectly.
I installed Freelancer on my new pc, hoping to play on my favorite Jolt server again. When I first started I got the infamous "Video card is not recognized"-message (you all probably know what I mean). I clicked continue, having one of the newest cards currently available, therefore feeling safe. After having configured my settings, I connected with the Jolt server.
I started on planet Manhattan, looked around a bit (like 5 minutes or so) and then I launched into space. After just 2 minutes in flight the game froze for like 2 seconds and suddenly my pc restarted.
I tried launching Freelancer again, I connected to Jolt, went into space... and the same thing happened... And a third time! I went to the Microsoft tech support page. There's a way to prevent your pc from restarting when you have a system error. I did that.
So I went back to Freelancer. I just selected a random multiplayer server which I could join but after 2 - 3 minutes of flight the game froze. This time I had a beautiful error message (because I disabled auto-restart). It's all in Dutch so I didn't translate it yet (I live in Holland if you want to know) but I noticed something about a video card driver.
This pc is about two weeks old, but just to be certain I checked my driver and DirectX version... ForceWare v66.93 and DirectX v9.0c...
I tried tons of things, including:
-A "clean" startup of my pc (execute "msconfig"...)
-Cranking down hardware acceleration by TWO notches (as suggested by a topic)
and tons and tons more...
In the few minutes I managed to play I detected no sound problems... I heard dialog, background music, gun sounds, everything and therefore I did not follow instructions displayed in the nine-page stickied topic.
Bottom line: I AM DESPERATE! I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING!
I REALLY REALLY like this game and I REALLY REALLY want to play it again. I've read through 20 topics and I've tried alot of things to NO AVAIL... IT KEEPS FREEZING FOLLOWED BY THIS AWKWARD BULLSH*T ERROR!
Could somebody please help a desperate freelancer?
Edit: Just for the record, one of the latest and most GPU (video card) demanding games, H A L F - L I F E 2, runs smoothly on my pc with almost every setting at maximum. UT2004 runs really great, the Painkiller demo works great, NFSU 2 works great, HALO runs amazing, even DOOM 3 runs pretty good (almost everything at maximum)... So what could possibly be my problem?
Edited by - J-M v2.5.5 on 12/11/2004 2:38:18 PM
. In the meantime, try reinstalling DirectX if you haven't already done so, or even try installing the latest version (9.0c).