Overreading stream errors

[Guest]

I get strange overreading stream errors in many different situations. If I let the game sit at the menu too long, at the beginning of the 2nd level, and sometimes at other random places. The errors are always something like "Overreading stream \data\database\Sounds\something\something.wav" and the game crashes. To the best of my knowledge everything on my computer is upgraded to the newest drivers. Here's my system stats:

AMD 1.2ghz
Epox EP-8K7A MB with AMD-761 + VIA 686B AGPset
(newest 4-in-1 drivers)
Kingston 512mb PC2100 DDR RAM
LeadTek 64mb GeForce2 MX 400
(newest drivers)
4 Western Digital 80gb HDs stripe RAID
Promise FasTrak100 TX2 RAID card
SoundBlaster Live Platinum 5.1
(no new drivers available)
Installed from a Creative DVD drive
Windows 2000 Service Pack 2
(and all other updates)

Nothing running in the background at all. I upgraded to 1.01 which did nothing for me. I thought that maybe it was a problem reading from the CD so I found a CD crack and that didn't help. Any suggestions would be great. The only thing I can do in the game right now is play the tutorial and play the first level.

Thanks!

[Spazer]

maybe its something with your soundcard..uninstall the soundcard and take it out..then try to play the game.

[hyte1]

Or you could just try disabling the sound in the games options and then start the game, does the problem persist? If so then its probably the hardware acceleration for the sound card or an IRQ problem.

[Guest]

I tried disabling sound, still did the same thing. This is a very common (and expensive) sound card and there should be NO reason why Max Payne shouldn't be compatible with it.

[hyte1]

Hey I have quite an expensie sound card but it doesn't mean you wont have problems. You can buy the most expensie computer ever and you will still get problems. Every PC cannot be compatible with every piece of software without making tweaks to the system!

Back to the problem:

When you say you have the newest drivers from your graphics card exactly which ones do you have, the leadtek ones or the detonators? Which version?

Also make sure you have all background apps closed when starting the game. Press control delete and go into task manager and close everything down. Also make sure you have any antivirus tools closed down.

[Guest]

I understand that everything won't work 100% with everything, but the SoundBlaster Live! sound card is probably the most used sound card out there right now.

For video drivers i'm using Detonator3 v12.41, which is the newest version on nVidia's website for Win2k.

UPDATE:
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling MP in case something had been messed up during install. This did not help at all. I get frequent "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime" crashes now (I had these before but not as frequent). Could this be due to some corrupted runtime? I can't see what the actual error is because MP covers the dialog box that comes up. I can only see the title on my task bar on my 2nd monitor.

[ 09-05-2001: Message edited by: JediMasterC ]