The serious lockups thread

[El Mariachi]

Are you having serious lock-ups in the game Max Payne? Are these crashes happening randomly or only on reload of autosaves?

well, according to George Broussard, our problem isn't real, and to his knowledge isn't being "remedied":

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by George Broussard:

The game is bug free for the vast majority of users. Any repeatable bugs are being looked at (and I'm not sure there are many), and 99% of the bugs are tracked to video drivers/system setups.<hr></blockquote>

I ask how was this conclusion was reached that the vast majority of users are bug free? Could it not be a more vocal unit that are reporting no problems? What are the exact figures?

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by George Broussard:
A patch is not currently in the works as there are no hard and fast reproducable bugs. When we get word of consistent locks in similar situations across multiple machines, we would address them. Rememdy is tracking all this.

Only that at this time there are not severe enough or reproducible enough bugs to warrant a patch.

Remedy can probably clarify this.<hr></blockquote>

i hope remedy do clarify this, and i hope remedy say they DO have plans to release a patch that address these autosave issues:

1) part 1, level 7: chasing the boss up the elevator after the alleys ways - it locks up during the cut-scene.
2) part 3, level 0: the dream sequence wire-walk, after dying and loading up the save game, there is a lock-up.
3) part 3, level 8: helicopter chapter on the roof, trying to shoot the guards, before taking out the cables.. another lock-up.

ALL these lock-ups freeze the comp completely.. but the music is still heard, but nothing responds.

System spec:
pent 3, 450Mhz
voodoo 3 2000 with official drivers.
soundblaster audioPCI 64V with lattest drivers.
128 MB RAM
20gig HD

-no such problems on any other games i run.

Please, anyone else with these lock-ups please post so that this problem is brought to the attention of remedy.. POST POST POST and let them know!!!

[ 08-23-2001: Message edited by: El Mariachi ]

[Cypher2k]

I find it funny that they might accuse my video drivers of being the problem. Afterall, I'm using the drivers that they tested this game on. If they need to replicate the lock ups and crashes, they can send me down to their office and I'll bring my computer! Then they'll see this problem replicated about a million times!

[mrmudcat]

hope this helps specs listed at other posts i disabled hardware acceleration on sound ..........have sblive.......and im playing no crash for 30 mins woohoo

[mrmudcat]

sorry guys i lied 31 minutes and you guessed it crash..........i give up george on the general forums you listedthat other site one with the mods and said the site was cool i went there and low and behold on there forums there were tons of other people having the same lockups crashes i guess we being the minority all are boxes must be shit or we have outdated drivers or some kind of hardware config that is messed up you are insulting are intelligence......by denying there is no problem there is major problems check out the other forums not just 3d realms..........im pissed but i still will give you guys the chance to fix this problem but for 20 dollars(30 lessthan payne) serious sam rules.there is a problem with top end systems along with med. range ones in fact i see some better than my box having same problems ......my specs.....pentium 1 gig 256 pc800 samsung rd ram.......geforce 2ultra sblive intelvc820 board windowsME...........updated to the max drivers........i guess im going to throw this piece of shit out the window and build something better so i can play max more than few mins at a time..... images/icons/grin.gif

[ 08-22-2001: Message edited by: mrmudcat ]

[Guest]

I hear you. I've posted several notices about the games randomly crashing during the cut scenes or when I use the bullet-time combo. It seem no one is actually listening to the complaints and all they care about are the revenues from the game. This is my last post because I am extremely upset with the flagrant disregard by the developer to ensure their game is bug free...note IT ISN'T!!! Here are my specs and if you blame the problem on me then you best check yourself.

Win 98se
FIC SD11 motherboard
384 ram
Matrox Millenium G400 max
Diamond Monster sound MX300
AMD Athlon 700

All drivers updated and installed.

[Guest]

....AND YES I'VE TRIED ALL THE SUGGESTIONS ONLINE FOR OVER 2 WEEKS NOW. I EVEN DUMPED AND WIPED CLEAN MY HARD DRIVE WITH A FRESH LOAD OF WINDOWS!!

[InitializE]

Yea my game would crash right when I broke the first cable and the guards were running out. Within seconds it crashed and I have EXACT same video card as you.
I eventually made it by because I had very limited time so I had to kill as fast as possisble. I played through that part and it took me about 10 crashes. Frusterating but ahh well...
It never crashed any other time.

[squint]

There's always a handful of people who have problems with games that are practically bug-free for the vast majority of users.

You can submit a bug report to Remedy and if they get enough reports about the same bug, then they might be able to do something about it.

You were just unlucky, that's all. Don't buy hardware that's not tried & true. I always do research at sites like SharkyExtreme before I make a purchase.

[Wild Falkon]

128 MB of RAM is most ikely the problem. Max Payne uses a LOT of RAM. Try turning every running program off except for Explorer and Systray (using CTRL-ALT-DEL) before playing.

Hope I helped.

[Treguard]

I'm not calling the makers or the game in any way, but how much testing did it go through?
3 years is a long time, so surely they could have tested it on as many machine specs as possible. Wasn't there a beta testing?

[El Mariachi]

squint: excuse me? "tried and true" hardware? LOL. My hardware is tried and tested. i can run my other games just fine with no lock-ups. Please don't suggest i bought my hardware (as old as it may be) without knowing the pros and cons.

and another fact is that you've simply no way of knowing exactly what the proportion of buyers are that are experiencing problem such as lock-ups.

Cypher2k: yes, you're right, maybe remedy should offer free flight tickets and accomodation to Finland where we can bring our systems along and let them sort out the problem.

[mrmudcat]

squint tried and true i guess ill throw my pen 3 1 gig and intel board out the window also my samsung rd ram 2 oh yea my geforce2 ultra is shit 2 it isnt tried and true either......soundblaster live is only in about every other machine but it must be garbage also.......are you that naive to think out of the oh 100 or so posts ........i read last night at all kinds of forums...that all are boxes are shit....and yours is gold because yours is tried and true..........and you have no problems running max ......my box runs constant120fps on U.T AT 1280X1024 RES .ALSO SCORES CONSTANT 2000 PLUS SCORES ON VARIOUS GAMES ...............SO I WOULD SAY THAT STATMENT IS @##$%$#$......BY THE WAY WHAT IS YOUR TRIED AND TRUE SPECS

[Bushido]

Hmm....I'm sensing some hostility here. Man it's weird, I haven't had a single crash,lock-up, or bug incident the whole time I played Max Payne. But this looks to be a real serious issue. Guys, just try to be patient with Remedy. They ARE working on the minor bugs that occur with certain setups. At least take comfort in the fact that-even on their vacation-they're always here to help you out. I don't think they're shoot-dodging the bullet at all. They're facing the problems.....Cowards would hide...

[mrmudcat]

BUSHIDO YOU HAVE A VOICE OF INTELLIGENCE............it is very frustrating to hear others having no glitches
but alot of us gamers my self one ive been pc gaming for 20 or more years also do graphic designing CADcam.my system screams on top 50 games..........but max plays for few minutes crash i tried this game on my other puter 500 celeron voodoo3 128 ram no crashes......although imaging was shitty.........thats why some of us are a little preturbed......im tired of the comments about are your drivers updated is your hardware junk.......bushido by the way what are your specs..................squint ill tone the rethoric down but what are your specs .....including drives........ images/icons/shocked.gif

[Bushido]

My specs....(wow first time I've ever posted these...)

Pentium 3 733mhz
128 mb Micron RAM
Geforce 2 GTS
Soundblaster Live Platinum

Other fun things I have are a Plextor CD-R drive. 32x speed. No modem (got cable). And all the usual shit like DirectX 8.

I'm no "Techie" but it seems to me that Max Payne is choking on the real beefed up systems with Geforce 3 cards. I hope you guys get the problem fixed. If Max Payne wasn't going to run when I bought it I would've gone postal!

[ 08-23-2001: Message edited by: Bushido ]

[mrmudcat]

bushido oh i finished the game 3days ago saving every few..secs...............and have removed from drive i will reinstall and play max again...........i just want some ............final justice.......ala......................maxxyboy

also i feel my creative drives.......cd rom dvd rom cdrw.......maybe they cant handle safedisk encryption...after all Mr. BROUSARD from 3dr said his creative cdrom couldt handle it so it must be true??????!!!!!!!!!........i still have lazy matrix 2.5 mod for UT................its still a blast...........

[El Mariachi]

*bump*

is anyone esle experiencing lock-ups, state the system spec and the exact wherabouts of the lock-ups here.. help remedy help us.

[El Mariachi]

Over at the voodoo extreme forums there are over 6 pages detailing various bugs and crashes of Max Payne:
"Max Payne Problems, remedy answers":
http://www.veforums.com/Forum33/HTML/000031.html
that's the first page.

[El Mariachi]

why, thank you heyhey233 - good luck on finding a solution.

http://www.contrabandent.com/pez1/otn/ez/ezpi_grr.gif needless to say, the 3DR boys closed the other thread. I'd like to congratulate all those who showed up without problems and hijacked the thread, turning it into a flame war and making it generally unpleasant and intimidating. It seems like a guy can't even ask questions without getting lynched. Read the thread here, page one starts:
http://forums.3drealms.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=4&t=002883&p=1
Also, Joe3DR, please could you re-open that thread. i for one won't engage in any such flaming. Maybe instead of closing it, you should have just given a warning to all the offenders. closing the LEGITIMATE QUESTIONS thread was too harsh and trigger happy. you've succeeded in silensing a voice. how many more will you guys silence? the thread will slip into obscurity and it'll leave the general forum without any "bite" or substance, because you're controlling what's to be asked, what's to be thought, and what's to be said.

http://www.contrabandent.com/pez1/otn/ez/ezpi_worried.gif [edit] also here's another closed thread, although this one was closed because it criticed Max Payne for being too short.Despite some legitimate points from both sides, it wouldn't be allowed to survive on the main page of the general forum, not when there are games to be sold. It's a real shame that people can't get any meaty debate going over there.
read page one here:
http://forums.3drealms.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=4&t=002897&p=1
I have no comment on the lengivity of the game at this stage as i await a patch to emerge first.

Please don't misunderstand the intentions of this thread. it's a thread for tech support on lock-ups..

[ 08-24-2001: Message edited by: El Mariachi ]

[Guest]

I haven't had problems till end of Ch2. Then crashes started on game loads. Something seems to be wrong with save/load functions: It would inform me that there is no game to load (?!) and if I tried to load from load list, it would finally crash to desktop (CTD). The load list seems to be quite desorginized then (an empty slot in the middle of the load list).

Win2K sp2
Elsa Erazor III (TNT2)
P3 866
RAM: 512 MB

[B]

This is my first post on this forum.

I'm having the same problems that El Mariach is having.

Those lock-ups never happen on the first time you load a level, just when you load the level you are playing. Then,you move a little and ... images/icons/shocked.gif you get stuck, and you have to reset your comp.
It is always on the same levels like:
Part1 chapter 7 in the begining and near the end
The last level when you are in the rooftop
I think the problems are relatedto specific levels having problems with loading of a game

My crap Computer is:
P2 400
Voodoo 3000
128 ram
soundblaster 128

[ 08-24-2001: Message edited by: B ]

[heyhey233]

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by El Mariachi:
Are you having serious lock-ups in the game Max Payne? Are these crashes happening randomly or only on reload of autosaves?

well, according to George Broussard, our problem isn't real, and to his knowledge isn't being "remedied":



i hope remedy do clarify this, and i hope remedy say they DO have plans to release a patch that address these autosave issues:

1) part 1, level 7: chasing the boss up the elevator after the alleys ways - it locks up during the cut-scene.
2) part 3, level 0: the dream sequence wire-walk, after dying and loading up the save game, there is a lock-up.
3) part 3, level 8: helicopter chapter on the roof, trying to shoot the guards, before taking out the cables.. another lock-up.

ALL these lock-ups freeze the comp completely.. but the music is still heard, but nothing responds.

System spec:
pent 3, 450Mhz
voodoo 3 2000 with official drivers.
soundblaster audioPCI 64V with lattest drivers.
128 MB RAM
20gig HD

-no such problems on any other games i run.

Please, anyone else with these lock-ups please post so that this problem is brought to the attention of remedy.. POST POST POST and let them know!!!

[ 08-23-2001: Message edited by: El Mariachi ]<hr></blockquote>

excellent post. i'm writing to a couple of people about the problems with remedy supporting max payne and hopefully, they will do something about it.

[Guest]

NO ISSUE?

Out of the 2 people I know that bought the game BOTH are having these lockups.

Strange though that the PCs are quite different, except for an Athlon CPU.

PC1:
AMD TB 800, Abit KT7, 128MB Infineon, GF2, Soundblaster 128 PCI, Win98SE

PC2:
AMD TB 1333, MSI K7T Turbo/R, 256MB Apacer CL2, Voodoo3 2000 PCI, OnBoard Sound, Win2000

both PCs have the latest drivers, patches, SPs etc.

My PC is No. 2 and I can exactly reproduce the problems Nr. 2 and 3.
Especially Nr. 3 is annoying since I want to finish this damned game....
I can sometimes play for hours without problems and then come to a part (like Nr. 2) where i can not quickload one time without a freeze.

Some say its a Voodoo3 problem, but notice PC1 with a GF2 has no Voodoo3 inside images/icons/smile.gif

Hope Remedy knows what they are doing. With support like this it would be no wonder if people would not buy MP2.

[Kicyer]

I am having the same problems with mine aswell. There isn't any predictable time when my game locks up. I can play for 3 minutes or 30 minutes but reguardless it will freeze up. I can still hear everything like background music and sound effects. I have to shut my computer down with the evil red power switch everytime it freezes.

I run:
Celeron 566MHZ
191Megs of Ram
Radeon 32 Meg PCI SDR.

[Guest]

Well you were lucky to even play the game at all, i must of reinstalled it 10 times tryed 10 diff vid drivers and couldnt get past intro after 3d realms logo it crashed into a purple screen which i had to hit the red button to get out of it. I got a geforce 3 amd 900 sb live.nothing i tried would get it to work except disable sounds which it skips intro but no sound ,searched the forums etc nothing helped until i found a cheat site that commands you put in shortcut here is my shortcut after target "C:\Program Files\Max Payne\MaxPayne.exe" -developer -skipstartup -disable3dpreloads -nodialog .Now games runs fine at all resoulutions and havent had one crash -skipstartup and -disable3dpreloads seem to have done the trick.you would think 3drealms would of told ppl that these commands actually exsist instead of finding them on a cheat site.As for no joystick support that sux.
hope this can help ppl

[mrmudcat]

fisst ...............el mariachi i apologize.that your last thread got locked .....but i do feel that people were there solely to say your specs suck ....etc........i fell for the bull shit but wont again .....im stll having lockups every few minutes although i set the game rez higher than desktop rez it worked for chapter one but then chapter 2 back to crashing this time max will be removed for good.................. images/icons/rolleyes.gif i was there solely to get help not get into a flame war .again sorry El............ images/icons/confused.gif

[ 08-27-2001: Message edited by: mrmudcat ]

[Guest]

I would just like to refer to what bushido said before about max "choking on high end systems with GeForce 3 cards."
Well i have such a card o/c 220/540, Thunderbird
1,333mhz, 256 mb cas2 RAM.
There one could think that the game would run wonderfull on my machine, but thats not so, in some gun fights the slowdowns are unbearable by maximum details and with anisotropic filtering.
I also have had some of the famous blue screens wich actually had never occured until i treid turning off the V-sync, or could it maybe have been because of the Double frame buffering instead of triple ?

[Kicyer]

If anyone is useing a Radeon try Downloading the BETA Driver i've heard alot of good things about it. It supposbly works great on Max Payne so I am DLing it now. I will post back and tell you how it works whenever my DL is complete....could be a few days..damn 56ks! graemlins/dopefish.gif

[SureShot]

Very well. Seems I am not the only one having problems;

Specs:

PIII 500
32MB Nvidia TNT2 ULTRA (12.41)
Yamaha Sound Card
224MB RAM
Over 10GB HArd Disk STILL FREE
Anything else? Ask, and I shall provide - except Motherboard and RAM type (Not sure how to figure out what they are)

Problem: MP will play for 3-10 minutes absolutely fine, great graphics, good FPS, and then freeze - OR - Will play for same length of time before 'cracking' then freezing. By cracking, I mean it breaks into loads of shards, and I can see lines, and stuff.

Weirdly enough, it depends how long I leave it - if I go to bed for 12 hours, the game runs for ten minutes. If I try striaght after a freeze, it runs for two seconds. Makes me think about how hot system must be?

Sure Shot

[Kicyer]

Ok if anyone is using an ATI Radeon download the BETA Driver and it should work. Mine works perfect now. No lock ups anymore! images/icons/grin.gif

[Guest]

Max Payne is freezing for me too. Seems to happen consistantly after I quicksave. This needs fixed. I have a high end $3500 system that has no problems running graphic-intense games. I'm ready to sell the CD on E-Bay, I've tried everything and I'm in the PC software business.

[fractalgp]

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Bhodi-Zepha:
I've tried everything and I'm in the PC software business.<hr></blockquote>
Which means exactly what? Maybe your $3500 rig is incorrectly configured? Have you read the FAQs and READMEs and MANUAL?

http://www.maxpayne.com/support

[Guest]

Hi everyone,
Time to add my woes to this thread. I've have tried to get this game to run for about a week now. Most of the time I can play for about 2-5 min
before system locks up. The latest was in chap 2 when I was at the top of the stairs and killed the guy at bottom of the stairs. The screen was locked up but the mouse pointer was now active, but it had no effect. Here are the specs from my offending machine ! AMD K6-II/450 128mb generic ram,Epox MVP3G5 w/2mb cache VIA chipset, Voodoo 3 3000 16mb,SB AWE 64, Samsung 20gig C images/icons/grin.gif rive, Maxtor 8gig D: drive, Generic DVD Player, Yamaha 8/4/24 Burner
Adaptec SCSI controller,USR 56K Modem,
Of course I have installed the latest drivers from VIA, 3DFX 1.07, Creative Labs, etc...
I have installed the 1.01 Max Payne patch.
I have tried the command line options as specified by Talonsoft (What a joke they are!)But that is for another thread. My system can run Quake II, UT, SOF, HL, etc... just fine.
I know this was a little long but 3Drealms seems to want more detail, So here it is

[El Mariachi]

i've finally got a reply from Take 2 Europe.. i thought i'd post their reply in the unlikely event that it may actually help users with serious lock-ups..

heres what they say:
<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>originally from Take 2 Europe tech support:
Thanks for contacting Take 2 Technical Support

Regarding the problems you are having with the game I recommend that you
complete the following tasks:-

Before you start the game you should press Ctrl,Alt,Del and end task all
background applications except Explorer & Systray. To end task click on the
application (so it's highlighted blue) then click on end task, you will have
to repeat the ctrl,alt,Del procedure until there are only these 2
applications left.

Download the latest patch for the game. This can be downloaded from
www.3drealms.com (http://www.3drealms.com)

If you are still having problems I recommend that you turn off the hardware
acceleration for your sound card, to do this go into your control panel and
double click on multi media. Click the advanced properties button for
Playback and then click the performance tab. Lower the hardware
acceleration down to none. Also do this for the recording device, by
selecting advanced properties for the device and bringing the slider bar
down.

If this doesn't solve the problem, please try the following:

Go into taskbar properties and make sure always on top is not checked. Click
"Start > Settings > Taskbar & Start Menu > Always On Top".

Also please check that in the max payne options before you start the game,
make sure task switching is disabled (turned off)

You could also try starting the game using the following command line To do
this, right click on the shortcut and change the target to the following:

"C:\program files\max payne\maxpayne.exe" -skipstartup

If you still have the same problem try disabling your modem. To do this,
Right click on my computer and select properties. Click the device manager
tab and then click the plus sign next to modem then right click on your
modem go to properties and tick disable in this hardware profile. Try the
game now to see if this solves the issue.

If you still encounter problems, please try turning the sound off in the Max
Payne options screen before the games starts and reply back with the results
of this.

If you have any problems with the above or require any further information,
please reply back so that we can help further.

Please be sure to delete all old text when replying. This will help us to
process your response in a more timely and efficient manner

Regards

Take 2 Technical Support<hr></blockquote>

http://www.ukobservers.net/cwm/otn/ez/ezpi_grr.gif Well, how's that for saying: "they'll be no patch.. it's your config that's the problem". A config of mine which works surprising well on all my other games.... hmmmm...

Okay take 2! i'll triple check just one more time!

[mrmudcat]

el............i tried all that stuff along with starting out with just vid card then started adding stuff ..........no help i have the top 50 games puter has no problems with these............ppl if your not on this thread to help go troll somewhere else...........oh by the way petri from remedy emailed me and i sent him dxdiag specs but havent heard back yet.............fractal if you have nothing to say positive or helpful why are you in the tech forums.....go troll the general forums where you can be with the other i dont have a problem fanboys of max

[ 08-29-2001: Message edited by: mrmudcat ] images/icons/grin.gif images/icons/grin.gif images/icons/grin.gif images/icons/grin.gif images/icons/confused.gif

[ 08-29-2001: Message edited by: mrmudcat ]

[Guest]

As i mentioned in another threat : I've found a solution which worked for me, i just lowered the "AGP-Aparture-Size" in my BIOS to 64 MB and now MP runs without any crash, absolutly stable!

[mrmudcat]

markus does this work i havent tried that i know my ap size is set at 256...........specs p3 1 gig 256 rd ram geforce ultra 64 mb ....sb live images/icons/grin.gif

[Guest]

Ok...I'm writing again. Tried the AGP lowering to 64, still crashes to desktop. Tried the added text to the shortcut and still crashes to the desk top. Tried both combined...no luck. It seems to crash consistantly when I kill the third guy in the house (very first area of play) up in the bedroom. I shoot him with the shotgun and he goes into the slow motion death of falling backwards. About half-way to the ground...bam...back to the desktop. My specs are on the first page of this thread.

To 3dRealms:
There...you now have a specific situation to focus on. At least write a message on the main web page that acknowledges you have heard the complaints. I know I'm not the only one who has this problem...I've read hundreds of posts about the crashing problem.

[PetriRMD]

Max 734, please e-mail your DXDIAG specs to me directly. That would give us something more specific to work with. (Start->Run->dxdiag, save all information).

[Kenshin]

wow..i got the a similar problem to Max 734, and not once was I asked for my dxdiag info, neither were other people with the same problems...what's the deal? I'm starting to feel like we're all getting selective technical support here...
No offense Remedy, but shouldn't you be asking for the dxdiag info from all the people who have similar problems? Wouldn't that help you out even more as you can see if there are any consistencies/inconsistencies with the setups of various people in order to try and narrow down this wide-spread desktop crash problem? I might not be that knowledgeable in the world of computers, but don't you think that this would be somewhat a step in a postive direction?

If what I'm saying doesn't really help you (Remedy) in finding the problem, then that's ok..I just felt like throwing my 2 cents in...

[mrmudcat]

markus this has worked so far through chap 1 thanx........ images/icons/grin.gif .........i just blew the two brothers away with one shot gun blast between the first brothers eyes pellets went through and killed other brother 2 freakin awesome all in slo -mo ........will keep posting has this worked for any one else................ images/icons/shocked.gif

[PetriRMD]

Kenshin (and others having problems), please read
this (http://forums.3drealms.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=17&t=000124) thread. If nothing listed there helps, touch base with me directly.

Thanks.

[Guest]

@mrmudcat: Yes, for me this really works. When setting the AGP-Size to 128 MB the game crashes within minutes of playing, setting it to 64 MB gives me perfect stable gameplay.

[mrmudcat]

markus i had mine at 256 set it at 64 and ive been up all..night........trying to crash it but max is having to much fun.......what kind of vid card do you have or have i missed it in thread ......... images/icons/grin.gif

[Kenshin]

Petri, my apologies for jumping to conclusions, I didn't see that thread you pointed out and i was clearly speaking out of the frustration of not being able to get the game to work.
It's just that it's soooo frustrating unable to play a game you've waited a long time for!

If i'm still unable to resolve the problem, i will surely get into contact with you.

[Guest]

I will let you all know what results I receive from Remedy. Hopefully it will solve most if not all of our woes.

[Guest]

@mrmudcat: GeForce3. Nice to hear that my tip also worked for someone other too.

Btw, i had that "Crashing-To-Desktop-Bug" running Win98SE, so it's not only a Win2000 problem.

[Guest]

3) part 3, level 8: helicopter chapter on the roof, trying to shoot the guards, before taking out the cables.. another lock-up.

i have this and i can't beat the game without a fix. i tried the lowering AGP aperture, no dice. tried turning all the graphics low, no dice. tried using win98se instead of win2000, no dice. locked at exact same place. it only gives me at most enough time to take out the first 3 guards, the last one with the grenade launcher, i never have a chance to take him out cause it freezes. this is complete BS that it seems like they're ignoring this problem since it seems common enough. i thought there was a ding in my CD or something, i saw nothing but thought maybe lost data and didn't load right, but since other people have it i'm pretty damn upset. i'm running an athlon 800, maybe that's the problem, but who cares what it is, there should be a patch and soon.
-192megs RAM
-voodoo3 2000 (PCI)

[Guest]

After several attempts at loading ATI 7115 drivers, (i received errors when unpacking driver files from several diff. downloads) I finally got one to work and got them installed. Played Max for 2 hours last night w/out any crashes. It was about time. Still doesn't make up for the 2 weeks of play, crash, reboot. Anyway, for people with ATI Radeons, the new drivers should fix the problems.

P3, 1ghz
ATI Radeon 64ddr
512 RDram

[Bern]

I have two posts and am still looking for a response. Here is my serious lockup. After the initial intro scene...MP starts to load up and I crash back to the Windows ME desktop saying that MP caused an error in the SNDMFC.dll. Funny since this is a MP file. I have tried everything short of reinstalling windows.

Any ideas out there that may help would be appreciated?

[Guest]

MAX PAYNE IS AN INCREDIBLY COOL GAME

BUT

I get the savegame crash too, especially on the following the trails of blood in the dreamy bits and infact on any bit where I died loads and had to reload the same bit over and over. My computer is:

AMD Duron 800 Windows 98/2000(exactly the same problem in both) 224mb of ram Voodoo 3 3000 PCI(I noticed quite a few people with voodoo 3s have this problem) Original soundblaster 16 images/icons/rolleyes.gif

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I've got the lock-up problem. I have a 1.4 gig athlon, Kg7 raid mobo, 512 megs crucial 2100 ddr, MSI geforce 2 pro 64 ddr. I can't get past the 1st level because it freezes usually close to the guy with the shotgun by the stairs going down, It is really quick. I have changed drivers, did tons of stuff that I have seen on a couple of forums and I am getting worn out. It freezes and the sound keeps going. I have at least gotten it to where it is excellent until that happens. It's not always at exactly the same place, but fairly close. I am running me/xp dual boot and it's happening on both sides.