yay I found excatly what is making FL crash but...

Tue Mar 11, 2003 9:58 am by Hyperian

Ok after hours and hours of checking and unchecking and lots of restarting, I've found out excatly what is crashing the game.
The game crashes randomly, it could crash to desktop anywhere from fighting rogue in a battle to idling in a bar. The crash would either be the XP's illegal operation crash, or the minimize-to-desktop-but-can't-maximize-it crash.
Damn stupid services in XP.
It's the "windows audio" service in XP, after I disabled it with msconfig the game ran without crashing, but now it has no sound...
I want sound, I doubt anyone would play the game if you couldn't play it with sound... cause then you wouldn't know what's going on...
I've tried at least 4 solutions that involve reinstalling sound drivers or turning them off, or not using hardware accelerator, and I've also tried the solution found in
http://www.lancersreactor.com/t/forum/t ... er&M=False
None of them worked.

Ok so what do I do now?
Many thanks for people that will reply...

The specs for my computer is...
Proc: XP 2100+ at 2200+
Ram: 512mb
Graphics: geforce 3 + savage 4 (I use geforce 3 to play, savage 4 couldn't run the game)
Sound card: Sound Blaster Live X-gamer (not 5.1)
mobo: GA-7VAX
Powersupply: enermax 430W
I think that's all the relevent specs you need...

(PS: please don't suggest something like "buy a new sound card" or "reformat your computer" or "buy a new *insert hardware type*" cause I'm not rich, I can't go like "hey the game don't work on this computer, Let's throw it away and buy another one!!" I'm not going to spend a weeks time changing something in my computer so I can see if it *might* get the game to not crash... Worst comes to worst I can like, not play the game, it's not like my life depends on it.. right?

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Edited by - Hyperian on 11-03-2003 10:11:22

Tue Mar 11, 2003 1:19 pm by Fihnakis

reclock your PC. My setup is close to what you have and aside from a small problem I may have just fixed it runs flawlessly. If not defaulting your clock, re-examine your software (windows & other programs) installations.

Also, have you d/l'ed the latest audigy update? If not, don't. I reinstalled my audigy CD (the old CD not the updated (was starting from old to new)) and used the audigy update from last year (not the latest one) and it appears to have fixed my odd ****y sound popping problem.

Tue Mar 11, 2003 4:30 pm by Thunder Child

Hi

Stopping the windows audio process should have been a very last resort. If anything it only tells you your problem is the audigy. First i would clock the system back to default, i've seen posts on bad gfx where the only culprit was a gfx card clocked higher then retail speeds.

Second get the older version drivers. I had a bad case of statics with the demo, the newest drivers solved nothing, i found an older SBLive! Value driver (version 2 not 3) and all that static went away.

Good luck

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Wed Mar 12, 2003 3:55 am by Hyperian

nice ideas... but I don't have audigy, my sound card is the SB Live! X gamer, It's the one in Live! series, not the one in the Audigy series...
And I'll unclock my computer and run the game to see if it crashes thanks

Wed Mar 12, 2003 8:29 am by Hyperian

WEEEEE WEEE YAY I FIXED IT!!
it was the overclocking that's making the game unstable!
but now I have to leave the computer at 133fsb

but o well I get to play Freelancer! WEEEEEEEEe
thanks for all that helped me, you know who you are!

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