Intermittent CTD

[bowser]

Hitech Creations,

At any point in the game, I am intermittently crashing to the desktop once every hour or so.  The screen goes black, then I'm back at the deskstop.  This seems to happen randomly, and only started happening recently with no changes that I know of to my PC.  It's never happened offline, though I hardly ever play offline.
Half the time there are not messages and I can just restart AH, but the other half of the time I get an error from DDHelp.exe and then when I restart AH I get a message from Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library "Runtime Error, Program c:]program...\aceshigh.exe abnormal program termination".  At this point I cannot go any further with AH, and must restart my PC to run AH.

I have a 700 Mhz Athlon, Asus KA7 motherboard, 256 MB Ram, Asus v7100Pro Mx400 video card.  No other problems, except this one with AH.

I've changed video drivers, reinstalled Directx 8.0a, RW is not running, reduced Graphics Accelerlation Performance, removed and reinstalled AH.

Any ideas?  Should I call you?

bowser

[sprint]

Try DX8.1 ......... DX8.0 had a problem in that they forgot to include "Debug Output Level Controls" ... the DX8.1 version has the controls ... they should be all the way to the left.

Just my $.02

Darn .. Just reread your post where you said you installed DX8.0a .. not sure if the [a] version had that problems ... go to Settings/Control Panel/DirectX ... and look to see if you have the Debug Controls listed under some of the tabs ... if it isn't, try 8.1 version.

sprint

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[ 01-01-2002: Message edited by: sprint ]

[bowser]

With 8.0, under the DirectSound tab there is a Debug Output Level setting.  It's set all the way to the left, to Less.

Should there be Debug settings on other tabs?

What does this setting do and what would it have to do my CTD's?

bowser