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todd293
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 Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 6:24 pm Post subject: pirates locks up |
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Ill start playing and about 5 minutes in the game it locks up  I have a pentiumlll 512ram and a radeon 9600 pro any help appreciated |
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Elder-Pirate
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Location: Morris, Illinois USA
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| Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 4:33 pm Post subject: Re: pirates locks up |
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| todd293 wrote: | | Ill start playing and about 5 minutes in the game it locks up I have a pentiumlll 512ram and a radeon 9600 pro any help appreciated |
Close everything running in the background ( except "Explorer" ), shut down the internet. and try again.
I'm just taking a guess here for this has been a lot of players problems especially when they keep an "Anti-Virus" program running in the back ground. ( A known Game killer ). |
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todd293
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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| I tried that and it still locks up. the longest Ive been able to play is about 20 min, and then it freezes and makes the sound of a yette.And even crtl alt delete wont work.But thanks for trying to help anyway. |
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Elder-Pirate
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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| todd293 wrote: | | I tried that and it still locks up. the longest Ive been able to play is about 20 min, and then it freezes and makes the sound of a yette.And even crtl alt delete wont work.But thanks for trying to help anyway. |
Hmmm :hmm: Have you tried to uninstall SMP then "Defrag" and do another install ? The SMP manual even suggests you do that first.  |
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FAdmiral
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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If when it locks up you get a steady tone from the sound card, then its
a sound problem. I had the same thing a while back playing SH2. It
would lock up solid and rebooting was the only answer. I replaced the
sound card to a better one and everything was fine after that......
JIM |
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| Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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| That might be it,butI can play pacific fighters just fine,and I think its supposed to take more requirements then pirates |
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todd293
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| Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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| that was me just forgot to login |
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FAdmiral
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| Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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That problem was mine too. I could play any other games just fine with
no lock-up problem but SH2 would lock somewhere into the game with
some sort of sound overlap, especially when playing multiplayer.
Once in a great while, it wold lock on single play (both SH2 & DC).
Everytime it locked, I was getting multi-sounds and it just would lock
and make a steady tone. I tried most everything but nothing worked
until I replaced the sound card. What type of sound card do you have?
I then went to a SB Audigy 2 (24 bit) and it never happened again....
JIM |
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NefariousKoel
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| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 5:52 am Post subject: |
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Sounds like a memory pit.
Update your video and sound drivers.
What was the last game you had before Pirates? A fairly new Direct-X version shipped with Pirates and that may be playing merry hell with older drivers. ?
Hopefully you installed the lates DirectX that came with it too.  |
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todd293
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| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 12:24 pm Post subject: |
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| I dont know a whole lot about computers, but I ran dxdiag and on sound 1 It said creative sound blaster pci 128d. If this doesnt help tell me where I need to look. The last game I played before pirates was pacific fighters. I installed the directx 9.0c that came with pf and on dxdiag under current version It says 9.0c installed. Thanks |
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FAdmiral
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SB pci 128 is a rather old sound card. They have many newer cards available now. Its possible that the old card doesn't have the newer
drivers that work well with the newer DX9 series. It is the first thing I
would replace to play all the new games with DX9...
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todd293
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| Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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I updated drivers now it works like a charm Your right I definetly should update my old sound card. sh3 will be out soon I want to be ready. thanks for your help.  |
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