Loading Screen CTD

[Heretic]

I don't get it. I've got five different installations of SFP:1 and each of them crashes during loading at 30%.

I've tried to look for solutions here and at SimHQ before, but none worked.

 

My system:

Athlon XP 2700+

Radeon 9700Pro (Omega 26.75a (Catalyst 5.10))

768 Mb Ram

Windows XP SP2 w/ DirectX 9.0c

 

My Strike Fighters installations:

 

- Operation Tainted Cigar

- Taiwan Straits 1958

- Korea 1953

- Burning Sands II

 

Each installed as required in the readme and based on a fresh 3.2 installation with the latest weapon pack.

 

Plus a fresh 3.2 installation without any modifications.

 

 

I can't say that I'm new to SF, but this has never happened to me before. Could it be the GFX drivers? Or SP2?

 

-Edit: My SF version is an european one, say I installed every SP from 1 to 3.2.

Edited November 28, 2005 by Heretic

[+Dave]

did you leave the desert terrain folders in each of those sep installs?

[Heretic]

Yep, I did.

 

- Edit: Deleted everything, rebooted and re-installed SF. Stock: Works. SP1: Still works. SP2: Freeze.

 

- Edit: Re-downloaded SP2. Still no success. I don't f+cking get it. I've used Strike Fighters since it came out and I've never had problems with an un-modded installation. What the heck is wrong? It has to be something Windows-related since the only major change I've made was installing SP2. The GFX card driver is ruled out by now,since an SP1 installation works just fine. But from SP2 on, nothing will work anymore.

Edited November 29, 2005 by Heretic

[+Dave]

Hmm that is very odd indeed. Maybe you got a bad SP2 patch?

[Heretic]

Downloaded it twice from different locations. No success.

[+Dave]

You really have got me on this one, something is missing for sure to make it do that but I do not know what.

[Heretic]

The guys at Thirdwire don't have an idea either.

 

This is so weird...

[Guest capun]

You may want to look at a Sound and Graphic drivers.

 

I used to have Radeon9800 and had problems with the Omega drivers.

 

As the game was patched up, the graphic driver requirement gets bumped up. SP3.x requires DirectX 9.0c but also a driver (sound, graphics, etc) that is DirectX 9.0c capable.

 

We just went through with a similar problem with an nVidia user who claimed that he had upgraded his driver. Well, I don't know where he gets his driver but a newer (one rev down from the newest) fixed his problem. BTW it was with SP3.2

[Heretic]

Maybe. But I don't want to revert back to an older driver, since the 5.10a is the best Radeon driver since the 4.12.

I'll just leave SF untouched for now. The upside of this is that Falcon 4 will get some well deserved attention after a looong time. ;)

[Guest Saganuay82]

I have a question.

 

If you install the program and without patching it, open the game and what version is displayed down in the right corner?

[Heretic]

If you install the program and without patching it, open the game and what version is displayed down in the right corner?

 

10.11.02

 

That's an US version, isn't it?

[+Dagger]

ok so do the long fix...install and patch SF,run it,then install one of the add-ons,run it...continue until you find the bad thing.

[Heretic]

ok so do the long fix...install and patch SF,run it,then install one of the add-ons,run it...continue until you find the bad thing.

 

You didn't read the entire thread, did you? ;)

 

I said: It always freezes after applying SP2. But it can't be a bad patch, since it also freezes after applying SP2, downloaded from a different location.

 

Plus, it can't be the GFX driver, since this freeze also occurs with the new Omega 25.83.

[Heretic]

Sorry for the long delay.

It still doesn't work, even after re-installing Windows.

Strange stuff.

[Heretic]

Gave SFP:1 a new try and got the problem fixed. The cause have been bad force feedback drivers fot my Thrustmaster Top Gun Fox 2 Pro Shock (worst...product...name...ever! *pant* *pant*). Updated them and SF worked. Weird.