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Kusie · 08-13-2009, 06:07 AM

Hi all,

sorry to bump this very old topic but i ran into the same problem some days ago.... has this every been solved?

The strange thing is that (my retail version of) Prey worked flawlessly in the past and i played the game two times from beginning to end with no crash whatsoever when it was released... but that was some years ago and now a few years and several XP patches and a new graphics card later i wanted to replay the game once more on the same machine it freezes randomly after 5-10 minutes of playing. It also does that in MP mode. The screen freezes and sound goes on. I must then switch to the task manager and end the not reacting prey task. Then i can continue to work nomally and even start Prey again...

The only hardware changes i made to my PC is to add two additional RAM modules (had 2x512 MB before, added 2x1GB) and i replaced my ATi X800GTO with an Asus HD4650 graphics card. And i added a few USB devices like a Webcam and so on...

I was just about to do a complete XP reinstall when i found this thread, and it shocks me to read that a fresh reinstall does not help at all..... so i gave up on that plan for now and decided to do a little more research on this problem and if it was been solved.

What i WILL do is to do a complete reinstall of Prey with the latest 1.4 patch, but i doubt that this will help.

My system:
Gigabyte GA-K8NF9 Ultra (Rev 1.x) Board with Nforce4
AMD Athlon64 3700+
3 GB of RAM (2x512 and 2x 1GB MDT Modules)
AsusTek HD 4650 PCIe graphics card
Soundblaster Live 1024 soundcard (PCI version)
4x HDD (3x pata, 1x sata)
Win XP Pro up-to-date with patches
Graphics drivers: latest Ati catalyst 9.7
Sound drivers: Sb live XP drivers (from 2003, nothing newer exists)
DX9.0c is up-to date dxdiag shows no problems

Thanks for any help!
Kusie

08-13-2009, 06:07 AM	#104
Kusie	Re: Prey freezes+Soundcrash Hi all, sorry to bump this very old topic but i ran into the same problem some days ago.... has this every been solved? The strange thing is that (my retail version of) Prey worked flawlessly in the past and i played the game two times from beginning to end with no crash whatsoever when it was released... but that was some years ago and now a few years and several XP patches and a new graphics card later i wanted to replay the game once more on the same machine it freezes randomly after 5-10 minutes of playing. It also does that in MP mode. The screen freezes and sound goes on. I must then switch to the task manager and end the not reacting prey task. Then i can continue to work nomally and even start Prey again... The only hardware changes i made to my PC is to add two additional RAM modules (had 2x512 MB before, added 2x1GB) and i replaced my ATi X800GTO with an Asus HD4650 graphics card. And i added a few USB devices like a Webcam and so on... I was just about to do a complete XP reinstall when i found this thread, and it shocks me to read that a fresh reinstall does not help at all..... so i gave up on that plan for now and decided to do a little more research on this problem and if it was been solved. What i WILL do is to do a complete reinstall of Prey with the latest 1.4 patch, but i doubt that this will help. My system: Gigabyte GA-K8NF9 Ultra (Rev 1.x) Board with Nforce4 AMD Athlon64 3700+ 3 GB of RAM (2x512 and 2x 1GB MDT Modules) AsusTek HD 4650 PCIe graphics card Soundblaster Live 1024 soundcard (PCI version) 4x HDD (3x pata, 1x sata) Win XP Pro up-to-date with patches Graphics drivers: latest Ati catalyst 9.7 Sound drivers: Sb live XP drivers (from 2003, nothing newer exists) DX9.0c is up-to date dxdiag shows no problems Thanks for any help! Kusie Last edited by Kusie; 08-13-2009 at 06:11 AM.