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10-15-2001, 06:56 PM
Hey all, there was a bug and i've been waiting a week to get access to this BBS, so i've monitored it enough that i don't think this is a duplicate problem. let me lay down my system specs:
Windows ME 4.90.3000
AMD Athlon Socket A 1400mhz
DFI AK-76SN Motherboard
256MB RAM
screen res 1280*1024*32-bit
MSI / nvidia Geforce 3 with Detonator 21.85 XP Drivers
Event / Echo Layla Soundcard + interface (not very common)
TDK veloCD 16*10*40x
Matshita dvd-rom SR-8583
one hard drive partitioned as C, E, F, total 40gb, 7200rpm ATA-66
another hard drive partitioned as D, 5000 rpm tops, not exactly sure
DSL through a LNE100TX Fast Ethernet Adapter
Intel Anypoint Wireless 1.6mpbs network installed, USB
THE PROBLEM: Max payne randomly crashes, either straight up dropping me to the desktop, or reseting the computer, with or without freezing for a few seconds and looping sounds first. sometimes the computer doesn't reboot and i have to do do it manually, if there IS a freeze with looping sounds. dxdiag checks everything out fine, but just to be sure, i turned off/down hardware acceleration on both my video card (it's a geforce3, it should be able to handle it), and my sound card (an event layla, a 8 input multitrack recording card. very fast sound processing, directx compatible, on my last computer i used it for games all the time.)
the game runs longer when i scale down graphics options, as if there's some pre-determined amount of processing power that i can use up before it crashes. crashes are not entirely random based on this, but sometimes i can play for half an hour in 1024*768 with all options on, perfectly smooth, and sometimes i can't play for 2 minutes on 640*480, all options off. mostof the time though, i can play 640*480 for 20+ minutes, and 1024*786 for 2-5 minutes.
THE WORST PART: max payne was one of, although not the first, games on this new computer that i jjust put together. i already had half-life installed, which worked in very high graphics modes without crashing for long sessions. now, since max payne started crashing like this, ALL of my accelerated games are crashing like this. i bet i've just got a setting wrong, but i've been all over every site i could think of, updated motehrboard/video card/sound drivers, looked through the troubleshooting sites of all my hardware and this, even sites for a few games that i figured it WOULD crash on if i had them. please help me!
Windows ME 4.90.3000
AMD Athlon Socket A 1400mhz
DFI AK-76SN Motherboard
256MB RAM
screen res 1280*1024*32-bit
MSI / nvidia Geforce 3 with Detonator 21.85 XP Drivers
Event / Echo Layla Soundcard + interface (not very common)
TDK veloCD 16*10*40x
Matshita dvd-rom SR-8583
one hard drive partitioned as C, E, F, total 40gb, 7200rpm ATA-66
another hard drive partitioned as D, 5000 rpm tops, not exactly sure
DSL through a LNE100TX Fast Ethernet Adapter
Intel Anypoint Wireless 1.6mpbs network installed, USB
THE PROBLEM: Max payne randomly crashes, either straight up dropping me to the desktop, or reseting the computer, with or without freezing for a few seconds and looping sounds first. sometimes the computer doesn't reboot and i have to do do it manually, if there IS a freeze with looping sounds. dxdiag checks everything out fine, but just to be sure, i turned off/down hardware acceleration on both my video card (it's a geforce3, it should be able to handle it), and my sound card (an event layla, a 8 input multitrack recording card. very fast sound processing, directx compatible, on my last computer i used it for games all the time.)
the game runs longer when i scale down graphics options, as if there's some pre-determined amount of processing power that i can use up before it crashes. crashes are not entirely random based on this, but sometimes i can play for half an hour in 1024*768 with all options on, perfectly smooth, and sometimes i can't play for 2 minutes on 640*480, all options off. mostof the time though, i can play 640*480 for 20+ minutes, and 1024*786 for 2-5 minutes.
THE WORST PART: max payne was one of, although not the first, games on this new computer that i jjust put together. i already had half-life installed, which worked in very high graphics modes without crashing for long sessions. now, since max payne started crashing like this, ALL of my accelerated games are crashing like this. i bet i've just got a setting wrong, but i've been all over every site i could think of, updated motehrboard/video card/sound drivers, looked through the troubleshooting sites of all my hardware and this, even sites for a few games that i figured it WOULD crash on if i had them. please help me!