Why the HELL does AH keep locking up on me? I've exhausted EVERYTHING I know, and I still can't find a solution.
I have a T-bird 900 with 256 MB of 133 Mhz ram. I have a 32 MB Geforce 2 video card (more on that later). I HAD a onboard soundcard that I thought may be causing the problem (it wasn't), now I have a Soundblaster Audigy sound card. I am using Win98 2nd edition.
My NIC, video and sound card are all on seperate IRQ's, with nothing else on them. I have the latest sound and video card drivers (not that it seems to matter, more on that later).
The problem SEEMS to be video related, at least I think. With the older 12.41 drivers, I get some minor 'freezes' that last a couple seconds, then the game plays normally. The game seems to lock up about once an hour with these drivers. With the later 21.xx drivers and 23.xx drivers, I get no minor freezes. However, the game seems to lock up more frequently, perhaps every 45 minutes. These times are rough estimates, I locked up 3 times within 5 minutes earlier tonight (lockup, reboot, start AH, lockup, reboot, start AH, lockup, reboot, say the HELL with AH).
I don't know WHY it locks up like this. I've pretty much eliminated the following.
Heat- Sure, I guess it COULD be heat, but then my computer would be locking up all the time. It doesn't. It locks up when I play AH. That is the ONLY time it locks up. I have probably 100 other games (not that I play them all regularly). I play Everquest and the new Wolfenstein on a fairly regular basis... NO lockups whatsoever. It also doesn't lock up when I am just surfing the Internet (which I have had happen before on a different computer that WAS overheating).
Bad memory- Again... it COULD be bad memory, but why would it be AH specific in that case? I had a stick of bad memory in this computer once, it locked up within 10 minutes of booting up, no matter WHAT I was doing.
Soundcard/Sound card drivers- Locked up with my old sound card, locks up with my new one... I think this eliminates that as a cause. Also doesn't lock up with anything else...
IRQs- well, I set up my NIC, video, and sound cards on seperate IRQs, so I don't think it is this either.
Background progs- Nothing else running. Well, that isn't quite true. I have the Saitek software running, which I need to use my joystick, and I have the new Soundblaster software running, which I need running to change the volume (which couldn't be causing the problem anyway). I sometimes have Roger Wilco running, which causes longer lockups (5 seconds or so) if it can't find a channel. Game locks up regardless of whether RW is running or not.
Anything else anyone can think of? I can't think of anything, and I am getting SERIOUSLY pissed off over this. Any help would be appreciated. I have 14 disco's in 10:45 hours. 11 in flight and 3 in the tower. ALL of them were lockups. Make that 15 discos. And 16 and 17.... something is SERIOUSLY wrong with either AH in general, or the baltic map in particular... where I've had SIX whoopee lockups in the space of a whoopee HOUR.
This is a HARD lockup also, cntrl-alt-del doesn't do a THING except make my computer go "beep beep beeep", which is coming out of the computer speaker, not my headphones.
