Aceshigh Locking up after 20 Minutes

[F4UDOA]

Heya,

Been a long time since I have been on AH however I dusted off my flight controls and loaded the latest version of AH only to find that I cannot run for more than 20 minutes without a complete freeze of the game and my machine requiring a hard boot. I am not noticing any drop in frame rates when this occurs and I am only in the offline practice mode at the time.

I am running with an AMD64 3700 and a GE Force 6600. It's old but has been very stable.

Thanks

[ebfd11]

F4UDOA

It might help out if you minimized everything to 512 on bitmap and ran the minimum on the graphics in-game.

If that doesn't work then post a DXdiag here and I am sure one of the PC gurus can help.

LawnDart

[Skuzzy]

You should also disable most of the advanced graphic flags in Options->Graphic Detail->Advanced.  Bump Mapping will be fine.

[F4UDOA]

Will do,

I am not seeing a loss of available memory BTW.

Thanks

[Skuzzy]

Memory may not be the issue.  The actual performance of the 6600 is on the low side.  I ave a faster card and cannot run with the "Detailed Terrain" option enabled as the GPU is just not fast enough to keep up.

[F4UDOA]

I lowered my Resolution settings to 512 and the mininum graphics levels as well. My frames have increased dramatically however I am still locking in roughly 20 minutes to 1/2 hour. I upgraded my Vid card drivers and Direct X.

The funny thing is that I am testing by putting the Aircraft in auto climb and reach about 30K and leveling off. There are almost no graphics at that altitude in game, just blue sky. Frames are 60 plus and the game is just running in the background, I am not actually doing anything with it at all.

I have Anti Aliasing set to "application select" instead of none. Also what version of Direct X is optimal?

The funny thing is that I ran AH on this machine for a long time with this video card with no issue, I am not sure what changed as it has been a long time since I have been active on AH.

[ImADot]

Could it be a heat issue?  Perhaps the graphics toll on your system is causing it to overheat?

[Skuzzy]

If the game abnormally terminates, it is always possible a config file could get corrupted.  Try renaming the "settings" folder and test it again to see if it locks.  It could also be heat related.

[F4UDOA]

Skuzzy,

It's not terminating to the desktop but rather locking my machine so I need to do a Hard Reboot. I think it may be tied to the Clipboard popping up as that seems to be consistant with the lockups.

I thought I had this knocked but it keeps happening. I ran AH for years without this issue, not sure what is at the root of this.

[TequilaChaser]

at this point, you might should post a DXDIAG ( top 1/3 to 1/2 of it ) here for others to look over, F4U.....

as you said, game runs fine for roughly 20 +/- minutes then suddenly Freezes..... have you noticed if anyone was talking on Vox ( ch5 Vox  or F12 local range Vox ), and what type of sound card are you using - dedicated soundcard or board intigrated sound ???  could be you need to also update your sound drivers also......

if you don't mind, please post your computer specs along with the top part of your DXDIAG report...... to let others ( Skuzzy ) see if they notice anything out of the ordinary


hope this helps......

TC

[ebfd11]

F4

 Like Skuzzy said what you are describing is a heat related item, what type of system do you have??? Waht type of case, vid card and any other options you have.


LawnDart

[Krusty]

It may also help to post your brand and max output of your power supply. I had something happen to me regularly every 30 minutes some time back and it was a failing power supply.

However, it would really help to see the Dxdiag like others have mentioned.