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darcal · 11-11-2008, 02:39 AM

Not long ago I got Max Payne from Direct2Drive, which came with 1.05 already installed. It seemed to work fine but now it always crashes at the bar (part 1, episode 4). Everytime I get in there the game locks up and the display becomes corrupt as it tries to recover. At first the enemies blur with a no clipping sort of effect, then if I press escape it quits to the desktop with an error message and if I don't press escape it goes to a blue screen error.

I've tried it using different resolutions, hardware and software rendering, different detail settings and whatever I do exactly the same thing happens.

Admittedly I'm using a laptop but it's only about 15 months old and MP is at least 6 years old. Anyway, it's a Vista laptop running XP Pro (SP3), 2 ghz AMD CPU, 1 gig RAM, 128 meg ATI Radeon with latest drivers. Quite puny by todays standards but it runs Half-Life 2 very smoothly for instance.

So, is there a later patch for MP or should I just forget about it and play MP2 instead?

Cheers.

PS: Tried Windows 98 compatibility mode and no joy either.

11-11-2008, 02:39 AM	#10
darcal	Re: Max Payne won't run on XP Pro Not long ago I got Max Payne from Direct2Drive, which came with 1.05 already installed. It seemed to work fine but now it always crashes at the bar (part 1, episode 4). Everytime I get in there the game locks up and the display becomes corrupt as it tries to recover. At first the enemies blur with a no clipping sort of effect, then if I press escape it quits to the desktop with an error message and if I don't press escape it goes to a blue screen error. I've tried it using different resolutions, hardware and software rendering, different detail settings and whatever I do exactly the same thing happens. Admittedly I'm using a laptop but it's only about 15 months old and MP is at least 6 years old. Anyway, it's a Vista laptop running XP Pro (SP3), 2 ghz AMD CPU, 1 gig RAM, 128 meg ATI Radeon with latest drivers. Quite puny by todays standards but it runs Half-Life 2 very smoothly for instance. So, is there a later patch for MP or should I just forget about it and play MP2 instead? Cheers. PS: Tried Windows 98 compatibility mode and no joy either.