Peculiar Crash Problems

[abaris 0]

LOMAC runs OK whilst flying, but once in the menus it freezes more often than not. Sometimes I get a freezing screen with rapidly repeating sound samples, when I try to end a flight. Sometimes nothing happens until I'm back in the menus. And when I try to navigate the menus, the mouse pointer is suddenly stuck.

 

I'm running an Athlon XP 3000+, 1024 Ram, Radeon 9600 Pro, Aureon 5.1 Fun - everything equipped with the latest drivers.

 

Did anyone else encounter those peculiar freezing actions?

[Growler67 0]

What kind of cooling does your case have? The Radeons (any video card for that matter) get pretty hot. Until I added extra fans, it seemed I had Sparklies, and lock ups. Since the additions went in......none. Just checking, maybe it might be a heat issue.

[abaris 0]

Could be a heat problem, but it only occurs in LOMAC. Everything else, including IL2FB and FS 2004 runs OK without any freezers.

 

So I tend to think, that it has something to do with that particular game.

[cloonsey 0]

If your running ZoneAlarm try turning it off.

[Smoke Eater 0]

This is the same problem I had with the Radeon 9600XT. The newest drivers do not help. The only thing that allows me to play is that I turned my graphics acceleration down one notch. It slows the cursor down a little but at least I can look at the menu for a change. Mine would crash three seconds after hitting the menu screen. I would have to hard reboot every time.

Hope this helps!

[Tuff 0]

I think there was a fix for this on the lomac forums, try searching there.

[abaris 0]

This is the same problem I had with the Radeon 9600XT. The newest drivers do not help. The only thing that allows me to play is that I turned my graphics acceleration down one notch.

Well, I did do this before posting my problems here. But guess what happened. I had no more menu crashes, but the TV screen in the A10 was black.

[Indy_BIA 0]

The TV in the A-10 is black? Is that all the time or even when you have MAV's loaded? The TV should be black as all it is, is a TV to show you what the Maverick head seeker sees

[abaris 0]

The TV in the A-10 is black? Is that all the time or even when you have MAV's loaded?

Of course, when the Maverick is loaded. Wouldn't have noticed the difference otherwise. <_< Only the crosshair is visible.

Edited December 31, 2003 by abaris

[Cesium 0]

Make sure you have all other programs switched off. E.g. msn messenger, zone alarm (as was said above), steam.......

 

Especially make sure you have anti-virus software switched off like norton. - They are real CPU hogs :(