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Still crashing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2001 7:35 pm
by slammer
Paul
I have a Geforce 1 card with the latest drivers and an AMD 700mhz, 256 meg system.I
still have the game crash when playing solitaire. I have tried a fresh reload, deleting steel.prf and disabling hardware acceleration. Are there any other things to try? I have spent more hours trying to solve this problem than I care to count ( not complaining just whinning).
I do have a mega_campaign cd ordered but I have a feeling the same problem will exsist. I noticed in another post that you said there is a small number of people having this problem. Help.
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2001 8:14 pm
by Paul Vebber
IT works in other modes, but only crashes in solitarire? Or solitaire is the only mode you have tried.
Did you try turning all the sound prefs off?
Is there a particular place it crashes?
How long has it been since you installed windows on yor machine? Depending on how much installing and unintstallnig of software you do, I've found stuff that doesn;t work magically does after I take teh hard disk down to parade rest (ie backing up my data, reformating and reinstalling everything. I do this about every 6 months or so and have found every time I do it:
1) my mchine significantly speeds up
2) all sorts of weird crashes and errors stop
Doesn't fix EVERYTHING - never could get any DOS4X extender games (original DOS SP1,2,3 or SPWW2 or AOR) to work on my GeFOrce based Micron 667...but StarFleet Command suddenly woked after it was crashing, as did my kids TOy Story 2 3D game...
SOmething to try as a last resort and frankly good policy to do about 2 or 3 times a year when things seem sluggish or you start getting a lot of Kernal or USer based BSD errors.
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2001 10:46 pm
by slammer
Hi Paul
I have only tried solitaire. It crashes when I end my turn and the computer starts its turn. The screen for its turn comes up properly and then crashes to the desktop.
I have not had any other problems with other
games that I would consider processor/graphics intense. I run Nortons clean sweep once a week. It cleans the registry, orphan files etc. I also optimize my hard drives. All this does sometimes give me a speed increase without having to reload
windows. I have used clean sweep for years and it has solved alot of random crashes and
software problems.
As far as the sound I have only turned off the music.