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PetriRMD
08-30-2001, 05:20 AM
Guys,

If you're experiencing problems with Max Payne, please go through the following steps patiently.

So far, it looks like 95% of the problems have been solved by these troubleshooting steps.

Thanks.


DirectX Troubleshooting
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- Start DXDIAG (Start/Run, type "dxdiag")
- Select "Display" Tab and verify that D3D Acceleration, DirectDraw Acceleration and AGP Texture acceleration are all Enabled (Note: PCI and 3DFX cards do not support AGP)
- Run both the "Test Direct 3D" and "Test AGP Texturing" tests, if they fail, re-install DirectX 8.0 (Note: PCI and 3DFX cards do not support AGP)

System lockup when exiting the game
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Problem:The game locks up when you exit the game
Solution: Enter the Multimedia properties, change the playback & Recording device to game compatible and also reduce hardware acceleration for the sound card.
Solution: People with a modem that supports "Voice Audio" may need to disable the audio properties from the modem preferences.

Sound and Input Troubleshooting
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Problem: Aureal Vortex 2 based sound cards such as Diamond MonsterSound MX300 may not work properly with the game, especially with Windows 2000.
Solution: Unfortunately Aureal never finalized its drivers for this sound card, and now the company does not exist anymore. Possible behaviors are random crashes, sound may start cutting off or graphic novels may not have any voice-overs. A restart of the PC will solve the problem temporarily.
Solution: Try disabling your sound Hardware acceleration. Go to Control Panel. Double-click on "Aureal Vortex Audio." On the first tab, there is a check-box for disabling 3D hardware audio - make sure it is checked.


Problem: The extra buttons on some mice (Razer Boomslang and Logitech mice) may not be configurable as game controls from in-game menus if the manufacturers' driver software (such as Logitech MouseWare) is installed.
Solution: Please configure the desired keys from the mouse control panel or uninstall the mouse software.

Problem: The game has a strong "mouse lag". If I move the mouse, the game responds with a one second lag
Solution: Drop your display resolution and upgrade your display drivers.

Visual Artifacts
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Problem: If you get any of the following:
- Screen flashing in different ways
- Only partial screen is rendered
- Out of video memory errors
- FSAA does not get enabled even though it's selected
- Characters behaving weird ("floating heads").

Solutions: These are driver issues, possible solutions:
- Update display drivers
- Enable "Application Preference" in display driver's FSAA control panel
- Lower resolution and/or FSAA setting in Max Payne
- On ATI Radeon cards, make sure that you're using 7115 drivers instead of the 7075

Problem: With a Voodoo card, I'm getting constant screen flashing or flickering and objects or characters sometimes get drawn through the walls.
Solution: Select Options and change screenbuffers to Double instead of Triple

Random Crashing or Exit to Desktop
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Problem: If the game crashes randomly on a Windows 2000 computer that has a motherboard with a VIA chipset
Solution: Please install Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 or later.

Problem: The game crashes when loading a level
Solution: this is most probably because of a texture management problem in the driver. We recommend that you downgrade your texture color depth, detail settings and/or resolution and screen buffering mode.

Problem: Running in high resolutions or with FSAA enabled results into random freezing with the game
Solution: Please lower your resolution and/or disable FSAA. Many 3D accelerators simply run out of resources when running the game in high resolution.

Problem: Problem random lockups or crashing
Solution: Run DXDiag (Start/Run, type "dxdiag") then select Sound tab and lower the acceleration level
Solution: IRQ Sharing is know to cause problems on some systems. If possible, make sure that your display adapter has a unique IRQ
Solution: Changing your AGP Aperture Size in your BIOS may help on some systems
Solution: Overclocking your CPU or graphics card may cause instability. Run both of them at manufacturers suggested speed
Solution: Close all other programs, running other resident programs may cause conflicts

Game doesn't start
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Problem: With a Voodoo3 card, I'm getting "not enough video memory" error message when starting the game, even with the lowest settings
Solution: Drop your desktop resolution and color depth

Installation problems
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Problem: CRC Error during Install:
Solution: Try disabling DMA on Your CD-ROM drives. If this doesn't help, then during the install when you receive the CRC errors write down the names of the files that have CRC errors. After the install finishes patch the game. Then copy over the files that had a CRC error to where ever they belong in the game folder on the hard drive.

Problem: Setup requests for Disk-3 or disk3.cab:
Solution: Try to copy the whole CD-ROM contents to a temporary folder on your hard drive and run the setup from there.

[ 09-17-2001: Message edited by: PetriRMD ]

Hole
08-30-2001, 03:48 PM
You forgot the famous splash screen problem...

Guest
08-30-2001, 03:54 PM
How about problems with game being too dark with Radeon cards,even after you use beta drivers that mess up other games?????

Guest
08-31-2001, 09:04 AM
[How do I get rid of the taskbar flashing through the game?]

[ 08-31-2001: Message edited by: Timberdog ]

Joe Siegler
09-01-2001, 12:44 AM
<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Timberdog:
[How do I get rid of the taskbar flashing through the game?]<hr></blockquote>

http://www.maxpayne.com/support/index.html

Spazer
09-02-2001, 01:58 AM
in case the dude above doesnt want to read it, change your desktop resolution to something HIGHER than the game resolution. so if you use 1024x768 ingame, use something higher for your desktop

game too dark? up the freakin monitor brightness/and ingame brightness.

[ 09-02-2001: Message edited by: Spazer ]

Guest
09-04-2001, 08:16 AM
Back to the top...

Jeffer
09-16-2001, 10:19 PM
heh, Newbie is right images/icons/smile.gif

Anyway, its in Control Panel under mutimedia- you cant miss it. Then you need to go to your modem properties; I was having the same problem, but when I changed that in my modem properties, it fixed it

[ 09-16-2001: Message edited by: Jeffer ]

monster_1
09-17-2001, 12:10 AM
I sorry but how do i

"Enter the Multimedia properties, change the playback & Recording device to game compatible and also reduce hardware acceleration for the sound card"

Newbie images/icons/wink.gif

mysteryperfecta
09-18-2001, 12:46 AM
Remedy--

Please start a similar thread to troubleshoot MaxED.

Jeffer
09-21-2001, 11:17 PM
I take that back. It worked for ONE time! Now it still crashes- please help me!

Guest
10-04-2001, 01:57 AM
You guys forgot to adress the splash screen crash. On my system, I can't be sure what everyone else is getting, I have found that if I install any for of direct CD where you can write direct t your cd like is was a floppy, Max Payne crashes at the splash screen. If I wipe windows off my system completely and re-install it and everything else, it works normally again. If I load a backup of my registry the problem stops too. My theory is as such: Direct CD, after being installed, changes something in the registry that makes Max Payne crash at the splash. I've heard 1,000's of people desctibe this similar problem and many have mentions that they too have direct cd. So, is this the other 5% of problems or am I gonna have to becareful with my buring software from now on?

MikaRMD
10-05-2001, 01:58 AM
Greevar, First install the patch.
Then check for further help here (compliments of SilverSurfer):

http://forums.3drealms.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=17&t=000396

SamiV
10-05-2001, 05:02 PM
<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Greevar:
You guys forgot to adress the splash screen crash. On my system, I can't be sure what everyone else is getting, I have found that if I install any for of direct CD where you can write direct t your cd like is was a floppy, Max Payne crashes at the splash screen. If I wipe windows off my system completely and re-install it and everything else, it works normally again. If I load a backup of my registry the problem stops too. My theory is as such: Direct CD, after being installed, changes something in the registry that makes Max Payne crash at the splash. I've heard 1,000's of people desctibe this similar problem and many have mentions that they too have direct cd. So, is this the other 5% of problems or am I gonna have to becareful with my buring software from now on?<hr></blockquote>

I will be forwarding this information to SafeDisc, as the "splash screen problem" comes 100% from the copy protection scheme used. The Max Payne game doesn't even have a splash screen, it's a "feature" (please wait while checking the cd) of the copy protection.

When there's a reproduceable case, there's also hope of getting it fixed... :-P

SamiV.

Jeffer
10-05-2001, 05:42 PM
Could you please help me with my problem? I did everyhing in the FAQ, but it keeps crashing on exit. Please help- thanx