Author Topic: Application hangs (Read 4336 times)

Chalenge · « **Reply #15 on:** October 02, 2007, 09:41:00 AM »

Im going to restate the issue I am having. I have a fresh install of Windows XP. I have all my devices and drivers updated. I use FSAutoStart so that I have my services/processes reduced to 19 running. I have run every test I could find to run which includes Ntune stress test and memtest which ran overnight. The only problem I could find is after using pingplotter. My connection was always good in the past but now I think there is some equipment on the internet that went bad coinciding with the recent updates because thats when I started losing connection. I used to get the host connection lost message but now the game just locks up. I sent a snapshot of the pingplotter screen to support@hitechcreations before I discovered the save data option. I will send more data if it will help.

The Fugitive · « **Reply #16 on:** October 02, 2007, 10:17:10 AM »

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Originally posted by AKDogg
Those drivers for your nvidia video cards (162.18) are really buggy. I had no luck with the 160 seriers drivers at all for my 7900GT which is nearly the same cards u have. I suggest going back to the 94 series which I using without a hitch.

I would roll back my drivers to the one Dogg uses. The newest drivers cause all kinds of problems. Doggs pretty good at this computer stuff.....don't tell I said that he'll get a big head

..... His board is pretty much the same board you have, but clocked up a bit more. If his runs with those drivers your should too.

Be sure to use a driver cleaner when swapping the drivers over, to avoid conflicts.

Chalenge · « **Reply #17 on:** October 02, 2007, 10:35:04 AM »

Yeah I tried that and the result I got was much worse than the one twinboom is having. Yes I used a driver cleaner too. With the drivers I have now the game seems fine. It looks good there are no more hesitations or frame freezes but every now and then the game locks up. It seems to be connection related because at that point even after a reboot I cannot always get the game to log in again. Sure I can play offline and it works fine but when I try to log into the arena the kneeboard misbehaves the view is darker and it locks up.

Chalenge · « **Reply #18 on:** October 07, 2007, 01:05:55 PM »

I noticed that every time the game locks up on me I have an incoming vox message. TwinBoom said something about a compatibility issue with nforce4 and sound blaster. It doesnt sound like there will ever be a fix if thats the case because all of the equipment involved is now old news. Is there a sound card that is both 5.1 capable and compatible with nforce4 and AHII?

Bronk · « **Reply #19 on:** October 07, 2007, 01:32:24 PM »

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Originally posted by Chalenge
I noticed that every time the game locks up on me I have an incoming vox message. TwinBoom said something about a compatibility issue with nforce4 and sound blaster. It doesnt sound like there will ever be a fix if thats the case because all of the equipment involved is now old news. Is there a sound card that is both 5.1 capable and compatible with nforce4 and AHII?

Can't be it. I'm using an nforce4 and and an old soundblaster 5.1. I am not experiencing lock ups.

Wondering if its not a heat or psu issue?

Bronk

TwinBoom · « **Reply #20 on:** October 07, 2007, 03:06:42 PM »

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Originally posted by Bronk
Can't be it. I'm using an nforce4 and and an old soundblaster 5.1. I am not experiencing lock ups.

Wondering if its not a heat or psu issue?

Bronk

this straight from creatives tech`s

Creative and NVIDIA have been investigating reports of performance issues in some systems that have NVIDIA components as well as Creative's Sound Blaster X-Fi soundcard installed. There were complex, bandwidth-related issues involving memory allocation that made isolation of the issue and subsequent resolution time consuming and difficult. After thorough QA and testing, NVIDIA released a BIOS update for motherboards designed by NVIDIA and based on the NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI MCP, which has resolved such issues. For any X-Fi owners using these motherboards but are still experiencing issues, we advise you to contact your motherboard manufacturer regarding the availability of an updated bios.

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Forum Administrator
Creative Labs

Chalenge · « **Reply #21 on:** October 07, 2007, 08:57:55 PM »

Well I can see that sound blaster is sharing irq 19 with the nforce controller and the nvidia graphics cards. Is there a way to force it to another irq or is that even a good idea?

Skuzzy · « **Reply #22 on:** October 08, 2007, 06:33:59 AM »

Yes, having the sound card on its own IRQ is a good idea. Try moving it to another PCI slot.

Chalenge · « **Reply #23 on:** October 08, 2007, 04:45:22 PM »

I tried that just now. Now its on irq 16 with the other video card and the marvell yukon ethernet driver.

Chalenge · « **Reply #24 on:** October 08, 2007, 09:02:40 PM »

Its worse then ever. The game loads with the spinning clipboard and everything is darker. If I go ahead and go into a server the game locks up immediately.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #25 on:** October 09, 2007, 06:11:16 AM »

You did install the AMD optimizer patch? Something is messing that up. The spinning clipboard is the exact symptom of not having that patch installed.

Until you can figure out what is causing that, just set the game to run in Windows 98/ME compatibility mode.

Chalenge · « **Reply #26 on:** October 09, 2007, 07:37:25 AM »

Yes I was very careful to go step by step through your recommendations and suggestions. I have another PCI slot but I would have to remove one of my video cards to use it. I bought the 7950 with the huge heatsinks. I guess Im stuck with this compatibility mode.

Its almost time for me to upgrade again. If you could suggest a premium motherboard cpu and sound card Id get it.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #27 on:** October 09, 2007, 09:44:34 AM »

You did not answer my question. Did you install the AMD optimizer patch? And if you did, you have something in your computer that is corrupting that patch.

As of this moment, you either need to re-install the AMD optimizer patch, or set the game to run in Windows 98/ME compatibility mode.

I cannot make any recommendations. It has the potential of creating a liability problem for HTC.

lengro · « **Reply #28 on:** October 09, 2007, 10:06:51 AM »

Have you tried without fsautostart - just to make sure you didnt kill a proces which made your system unstable?

Chalenge · « **Reply #29 on:** October 09, 2007, 10:57:03 AM »

Skuzzy Yes I installed the patch. Sorry I wasnt clear in what I said. I will reinstall it again. There isnt anything installed on the system except AHII and AVG and windows and drivercleaner.