Bad problems with dying crash

[Guest]

Hi,

I have serious problems with max payne. Problem is, I die all the time without beeing shot or so. Mostly its at a point wher I would expect some sound. Instead - death sequence - often together with the level-finish audio message.
Sometimes I stand input-less for several seconds, and suddenly - death sequence, or death sequence sound and a 'stuck' screen flimmering between two consecutive frames. Prseeing E gets me back to last savegame.

This happens at least every 5 minutes or so - sometinmes as often as every 30 seconds.

Any Idea ? It nearly looks like all these crashes poeple are reporting, but only 1 in 100 actually kicks me back to the desktop.

I already read all the faqs and tried all suggestions: I lowered sound accel, I installed most recent drivers of everything, I reinstalled DX8, I swapped boards until both sound and video card had their own interrupt (not easy :-) ) etc.

My Hardware:

Athlon 750 / 256MB RAM
ASUS A7V Mainboard (Via KT133 Chip set, AFAIK)
Sounblaster Live Value
Elsa Gladiac Geforce 2MX
Adaptec 2924UW SCSI (with plextor CDROM)

Any Idea ? Help !

tia, Chris

[Roland_Deschain]

Yeah that A7V right there has issues. I know that if you have a SB Live installed there might be issues. This may or may not help but you should consider disabling onboard stuff you don't use such as serial ports and your parallel port. If you use a USB mouse then disable the PS2 port. Yeah that board has known IRQ problems.

I can through PCI cards into every slot on my Biostar or Abit board, my friend throughs his SBlive into his Asus he knows he's asking for a BSOD... Maybe that helps.

[Guest]

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Roland_Deschain:
Yeah that A7V right there has issues. [...] but you should consider disabling onboard stuff you don't use such as serial ports and your parallel port. If you use a USB mouse then disable the PS2 port. [...]
<hr></blockquote>
I have already disabled all unused peripherals (the Promise IDE as well as serial, parallel and
ps/2-mouse ports. I only use USB and ps/2-keyboard, as well as the mentioned pci cards.

BTW - the system is perfectly stable outside of max payne. I have quite some games and they all run ok.

IMHO this is a Max Payne problem.

[Guest]

I have the same system that yours

Asus A7v
Duron 750 with 256 Mb RAM
SoundBlaster Live! Value
Asus V7100 Ge-Force 2 MX-400

I have no probleme with the game and I try it in Windows 98 firts edition, Windows 2000 Pro and Windows XP Beta. I don't need to disabled any thing to make work Max Payne.

What are or Windows version... if is Windows ME, format your drive and install an order. Else, install the lastest via driver 4in1, the promise controler, liveware 3 for the sound card and the lastest driver for your video card. You can also disabled all screensaver or flash your bios to the lastest version

Good luck with your probleme