Baphomet Posted October 8, 2003 Author Share Posted October 8, 2003 I'm tempted to offer a truly bizarre suggestion since it appears that your system is plenty enough machine to run MW. I know this might sound odd... but here goes. Un-install that Soundblaster audio card. That's right... use the Add/Remove Hardware icon in "My Computer" and un-install that bad boy. Then pull it out, reboot and fire up MW. I know, I know... what does a sound card have to do with it... try it. If it doesn't help, just plug the card back in. Reinstalling with WinXP should be a piece of cake, and I will grant you FULL Flaming Rights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Halfelf Posted October 9, 2003 Share Posted October 9, 2003 if it works then it works and if it doesn't... then it doesn't :) *keeps flaming right nonetheless :P* EDIT: It didn't work :cry: weird thing is my dad hasn't updated his drivers :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baphomet Posted October 9, 2003 Author Share Posted October 9, 2003 Well, it was a stretch, I know, and the only reason I suggested it is that I've had problems with MY SBLive soundcard crashing my system, and I've heard the same from a couple other people as well. I swear once I pulled mine, my whole system got more stable. I'm now running on-board sound, but I don't mind... it was a good trade. As for your problem, I'm not sure what to tell you. That's a real stumper. ((thinking)) A couple questions: Is your dad's and/or brother's system running SD RAM (133) as well? Have you tried shutting down all your "backround" applications that Windows loads at startup? I'm rapidly running out of ideas here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Halfelf Posted October 9, 2003 Share Posted October 9, 2003 My brother are playing it on a Laptop :( Can it be that its because I use Tweak-XP and the Video card tweak? and the CPU tweak? And ever since I heard that about programs in the background I close them all (even MSN so I can't ask Switch for help :P) My dads comps specs are:Motherboard: Soltek SL-75DRV5 Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2200+ Ram: PQI 512 mb pc2700 DDR-ram Harddrives: Seagate Barracuda IV Fluid 80 gb 7200 rpm Ibm/Hitachi 60 gb 7200 rpm Soundcard: Creative Sound Blaster Live m/SPDIF Videocard: Inno 3D Geforce 4 MX 440 got no Idea about my brothers laptop through Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baphomet Posted October 9, 2003 Author Share Posted October 9, 2003 Okay, honestly, I'm stumped. The ONLY other thing I can come up with to try, would be set your game resolution low, put all your options down to the minumum (no acceleration on your sound, reduce the AI, view distance, etc), shut off the sound, etc. In short, do everything you can to minimize the processing load on your machine. See if THAT helps, if it does, I would say that it indicates that something, somewhere - hardware-wise - is being stressed to the point of crashing your game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Halfelf Posted October 9, 2003 Share Posted October 9, 2003 Got to the same conclusion myself since I have discovered that as long as I stand 100% still the game doesn't crash, gotta run my Virus scanner and Ad-Aware and see what else that can take so many resources with no shadows (as in how many shadows an object can have and such) I could run the game for about 1 min before crash (where I jumped around, runned and hacked) EDIT: Game STILL crashes :blink: :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
almusik Posted November 4, 2003 Share Posted November 4, 2003 Im my case it helped to turn music down completely as the game tended to CTD when I was attacked, when changing area or any situation which causes music to change.Now it still crashes when my poor mage is smacked too hard, so hard that the whole game passes out! :blink: Seriously, I don't know why this happens, maybe it's when health drops too far below zero or, again, some sound related problem (the smacking sound and my PC's whimpering).Anyway turning off music helped avoiding some CTDs. Hope that helps. Alberto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Halfelf Posted November 4, 2003 Share Posted November 4, 2003 actually I was able to play after I Formattet my drivesInstalled the latest firmwareInstalled Windows now it "only" crashes after a 5 hours of playtime :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohGr Posted December 16, 2003 Share Posted December 16, 2003 i dont think anyone has mentioned this, but after experimenting on my friends computer, always put the draw distance 90% full at the most, or it will crash at 100% full, dont know why though, but it went from crashing every 5 minutes to never crashing at all, so it must work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marxist ßastard Posted December 16, 2003 Share Posted December 16, 2003 Nope, I have the viewdistance at 300% and I rarely encounter any CTDs. Must be a nifty little "feature" specific to your friend's computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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