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Crash to desktop

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fyo

Post Fri Mar 14, 2003 8:41 pm

Crash to desktop

Hey,

Anyone else getting random crashes to desktop? No particular event seems to cause this - appears pretty random. Usually happens within the first hour of playing - once that is cleared, it *almost* never happens.

(But has fairly high chance of occuring during the first hour - maybe 25% or more).

Win98, DirectX9, GeForce256 DDR (latest NVIDIA drivers).

-fyo

Post Fri Mar 14, 2003 11:39 pm

Win98, DirectX9, GF4Ti4200/Detonator 30.82, SB Live!

Demo worked fine, full version crashes after Freeport7 is blown up. Makes me VERY ANGRY

I finally got it to let me play further, but now it always crashes when I wanna talk to NPCs in station bars...

uninstalled game completely, reinstalled demo, reinstalled game, ran norton disk doctor, start new game: no crash? is that really POSSIBLE? well, it seems so

Edited by - YuriEd on 15-03-2003 22:58:30

Post Sun Mar 16, 2003 12:16 am

Ya I get random crashes, and sometimes i get them 20-30 mins apart. Pisses me off in multiplayer in the middle of a mission or trade run. :/ I check my tasks runnign and it says DXDiag is trying to run.....I dont understand how it just randomly decides to run DXdiag , and it only happens with Freelancer. :?

Post Sun Mar 16, 2003 3:45 am

DxDiag runs when Freelancer crashes so it can prepare one of those cute error reports you could send back to Microsoft

Post Sun Mar 16, 2003 11:03 pm

Had similar problem, but it would crash midway through the 3rd mission. Just for giggles, I moved a bunch of stuff off the drive FL was installed on and freed up about 2g of space then defragged. No more problems.

BTW: I'm running under XP Pro Corp.

Post Tue Apr 01, 2003 1:07 am

I get the same problem, but it's really weird...

The game doesen't exit, it stays running, but when I click on it on the START bar, it doesen't go back in... I hear the music, but it's stuck on the desktop.

It doesen't show in the Task Manager, so I have to go to Processes and end it from there and start the game back up.

It happens rarely, though. Usually happens if I have Winamp open and/or an IE page present while the game is running.

Asus A7M266 motherboard w/ latest BIOS flash
AMD AthlonXP 1600+ o/c'd to the equivalent of 1800+
512mb Corsair PC2700 DDR RAM
ATi Radeon 8500LE (250mhz/250mhz) 128mb o/c'd to equivalent of 8500 retail (275mhz/275mhz) w/ latest Catalyst 3.2 drivers
Soundblaster Live X-Gamer 5.1 w/ latest drivers
running WindowsXP Professional

Edited by - The Mole on 01-04-2003 02:13:12

Nog

Post Tue Apr 01, 2003 2:51 am

Once in a VERY long while. And only after the game has played for hours straight.
Come to think of it, Freelancer has crashed when I left IE running.
My server has yet to crash.

Athelon 1800XP
MSI Fuzzy Logic Motherboard
640 Megs SDram
Prophet 2 MX 32 Meg video card
MX300 sound card.
WinXP Pro

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