Freelancer freezes at random .. how to fix?

Tue Mar 04, 2003 10:40 pm by Rogueone

So far, after about 3.5 to 4 hours of play, no lock ups after changing my power supply.

Something I noted on the new one is the label on the side of it notes it supplies 35A to the 5v rail. For anyone having this issue, I'd opne your case and read what it supplies to the 5v section. My old one was 30A.

If I'm guessing correctly, I bought my case back when I bought an AMD 1400, and all I had for cards were the GF 4400. I used the onboard sound and ethernet of the mobo.

3 months ago roughly I bought an amd xp 2100 and never gave the PS a thought.

A month ago I decided to buy a SB Audigy 2. Ever since, various games have been crashing constantly. I had a few lockups/crashes here and there before getting this, but nothing that seemed more than OS issues. But my guess is the Audigy2 requires just enough current from the 5v rail to pull power away from the CPU or GPU, and that was why the system would crash.

With the new supply having 35A for the 5v components, it's running smoother. So anyone having this problem should double check, even the guy with the 450w supply. Just because it's labeled 450 doesn't mean it reall puts that much out, or that it puts what you need where you need it

regards,

RogueOne

Wed Mar 05, 2003 12:19 am by Jemimus

I removed my SB live 1024 and turned on the integrated sound chip for the first time in a year..

And Freelancer wont crash anymore.. at ALL

So.. this solved it for me

Wed Mar 05, 2003 2:16 pm by satan

was going to post last night that I was a dunce because I noticed by reading the forums that the demo has a level 2 limit and I was very near to the limit when it kept crashing.
Anyway glad I didn't because I downloaded the mod that gives you negative worth thinking this must be the answer.I started playing this morning and after approx one hour of gaming it crashed again.
So back to square one for me.
I think I had better invest in a better power supply.

Lord Satan has spoken
Let the sin begin

Wed Mar 05, 2003 2:25 pm by moZn

I just ordered a 400W PSU with a load peak of 35A on the +5V conductor, and a new non-SB sound card.
I'll let you know how things work out as soon as I get the new goods tested with freelancer.

Btw it's worth changing sound card to eg. Trust, because SB card use up more than twice as many CPU clock cycles when processing sound.

moZn out ...

Wed Mar 05, 2003 7:28 pm by citgo566

Seriously, the day I have to go out and buy a new power supply for a game when my system works fine with everything else is the day I will stop playing PC games. MICROSOFT GET IT TOGETHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

Thu Mar 06, 2003 2:03 am by treb

it's not only microsoft,

i got crashes with SimCity4 too.
Now with a new PS everything runs like a charm.

greets
Treb

Linux:
gawk, date, finger, wait, unzip, touch, nice, suck, strip, mount,
fsck, umount, make clean, sleep.
(Who needs porn when you have /usr/bin ?)

Thu Mar 06, 2003 6:06 am by ZeroGravity

I find it hard to believe that we ALL have bad power supplies, I'm getting random reboots of my computer when I play...like maybe once in 45 minutes to an hour or so. With the number of people in here complaining about crashes/freezes/reboots I think it's the game needing a patch not all of us needing new computer hardware.

Thu Mar 06, 2003 8:35 am by ZeroGravity

Well I reinstalled DX9 and my Audigy drivers and played for 5 hours with no reboot/crash/freeze *knocks on wood* I hope that was all it was.

Thu Mar 06, 2003 11:58 am by treb

think we'd have to discern the different causes of the problem.
for me, with random freezes and colored vertical lines on screen it was the PS.

for others it might be the soundcard or driver issues.

greets
Treb

Linux:
gawk, date, finger, wait, unzip, touch, nice, suck, strip, mount,
fsck, umount, make clean, sleep.
(Who needs porn when you have /usr/bin ?)

Thu Mar 06, 2003 2:53 pm by Tocole

I seriously hope it is not the power supply, I just built this computer during Christmas. I will try to reinstall DX9 and Audigy drivers. Once it locked up a one point, it wouldn't do it at the same point again (in the demo). And once the story missions were done it wouldn't lock up at all. I hope my retail copy works well.

Buckle up and hold on to your mud.

Thu Mar 06, 2003 5:57 pm by moZn

I got my new PSU and sound card today.
I installed the lot and tried out FL again.

But after about 5-10 minutes of playing, I had to accept that there had been no change in the stability of the game.
It still crashes for me ....

All I can do is sit back and hope for a patch that resolves the problem ...

Fri Mar 07, 2003 1:30 pm by moZn

Ok .. I might as well continue this semi-monologue thread

Today I woke up and thought: "What can I do today to try to make my Freelancer work?"
A friend of mine installed it on a Win2K machine, and I thought: "Hey .. why haven't I tried Windows 2K yet?"
So now I have win2k installed. Same drivers and dx version as under winxp.
Let's see how it works out. BBL PPL ...

Fri Mar 07, 2003 2:33 pm by Tocole

Just picked up the full version last night, it takes longer to get to Canada. I reinstalled the DX9 that came on the CD, installed the game and...it works! Played for a few hours without a hitch! The only thing I did different was close down some programs in the taskbar. I hope it stays working.

Athlon XP 2000+
MSI KT4V
MX-480 x8
512 DDR333
Audigy 2
XP Home

Buckle up and hold on to your mud.

Fri Mar 07, 2003 3:20 pm by moZn

I've been playing for a solid 1½ hours on Windows 2000 now, and there has absolutely no problems whatsoever.

I hereby conclude that the problem (for me at least) has been Windows XP, and not my sound card or PSU as others has experienced.

moZn out ...

Sat Mar 08, 2003 2:49 am by gunnar

Im using Win98se+ an old Diamond 300MX soundcard and had LOTS of random lockups.

I dialed back the DirectX Hardware Sound Acceleration, using DXDiag.

Now Im back to normal, lockups every so often ;-)

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