End of Mission crash / freeze...?

[Fungoid]

Hi fly-peeps;

I get a little problem in FE at the end of a campaign mission; when I hit 'esc', about one time in three the game just goes to a black screen, and is unreponsive to most inputs. ( Mouse - clicks no good, only response is to 'enter' - which gives crash-to-desktop). Tried re-install, just vanilla game with no addons, still occurs. XP, Nvidia 9800, Athlon FX60, 2gig ram, saitek FFevo.

Anyone seen / know this? Tried looking for earlier posts, not found any ( maybe I need to search better %].

 

To say it's frustrating when you've just scraped back from an epic mission, downed several EA, got more holes in than windows95, then get dumped out and the game hasn't saved it....AAARGH!

[+Stary]

Seems like Vista bug, but as you use XP... you did apply any mods, or is it vanilla install?

[Fungoid]

Seems like Vista bug, but as you use XP... you did apply any mods, or is it vanilla install?

 

 

Hi, thanks for reply..did originally put various mods on, got the freeze/crash, uninstalled everything, reinstalled just vanilla game + expansion pack + nov08 update...kaboom! Same problem. Doh! All Nvidia drivers, XP SP3, everything up to date etc. A real bummer as I love all things WW1 airborne, and this game most of all! ( Ahead of OFF, RoF, and others.)

Going to try different graphical settings; at moment everything at max; I hate to compromise when my PC can handle it though :(

[Panama Red]

A shot in the dark, but since I use ATI video cards (and XP), I am only guessing about this. I have read in the various CA threads that the latest nVidia drivers (190.XXX) are causing a lot of problems. As a result people are rolling back to some earlier nVidia drivers and things seam to work better with the older drivers.

[+Stary]

Fungoid, try from lowest settings, then increasing them one by one to a moment when you have crash

[Fungoid]

Thanks chaps; going to try low settings- work up, first; then if still got freeze/crash thing then roll-back Nvidia to 180.xxx!

[Fungoid]

Tried graphic settings - still prob., even at lowest settings. Rollback to Nvidia 186.xxx - still same. Noticed ONLY happens if attempt campaign missions ( vanilla ones with the game release, not addons) but not ever with single-mission flights. 'Feels' to me like the game can't quit the 3D and load up the campaign result or something...?

[+Stary]

Maybe try reinstalling without expansion pack1, and do not patch the game, see if it works?

[Fungoid]

Thanks, I'll try that. I've also checked my DirectX 9c and components are up to date; the online updater did add something to my DirectX. Also, as I remember, the FE installer did also add a little to directX, even on the reinstall... a bit strange, as I thought directX install were one-way, no going back types?

[+Stary]

Any luck so far?

[Fungoid]

Nope, still the same. I just don't get it; every other game I got is OK...?

[+Stary]

Have you installed the most recent Dx9c? There are still new Dx9c versions out every few months.

[Fungoid]

I think so, but I will check.

[Fungoid]

DX9 up -to date doh :(