Author Topic: Please help I lock up after a few seconds (Read 390 times)

oxman · « **on:** January 20, 2003, 02:42:07 PM »

My games locks up after a few seconds of playing. i cannot fix the problem. please help me. I have a Tyan M/B S2380 Trinity K7, AMD 650, voodoo 4500 AGP, 40 gig H/D, 300+ meg RAM. Win 98SE. I am tearing my hair out to get AH up and running. Please help.

hyena426 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 20, 2003, 04:32:24 PM »

well,there area few steps you need to do,,,first reload all your direct x,,,reload your vid card drivers,,,and check your sound card,,,,,do you have a old sound card?,,turtle beach montago?,,,seems like your computer is old anuff to have one,,,my buddies computer had the same problem,,he couldnt play more than a few seconts with out it locking up,,,because his sound card has a c-media chip on it<~~and it will cause aces high to lock up and random,,and loss of sound,,,,after we replaced it,,,had no troubles,no more lock ups

and you mite have to bite a bullet and get a new vid card,,voodoo's are not suported anymore and will give you more trouble than its worth

oxman · « **Reply #2 on:** January 21, 2003, 04:17:06 PM »

I have a sound blaster "live" card i reformatted and loaded everything back up and still the same problem:(

oxman · « **Reply #3 on:** January 21, 2003, 05:19:54 PM »

Ok i am pertty sure i will need to get another video card. AH worked before back before the JU87 was added i cannot understand why it wont work now. Can anyone reccommend a AGP Video Card that is not over $100 that would work well. And any one want to buy my used Voodoo 4500 32meg AGP card

hyena426 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 21, 2003, 05:28:02 PM »

you can get a nice cheap geforce 2 64mb card for about 39 bucks at best buy or about any computer store...and if you wanted to pay a little more you could get a agp geforce4 mx440 ddr for about 80bucks and it will run any game you need<~~for there price those are the best cards on the market for cheap good reliable 3d grafics

slaterat · « **Reply #5 on:** February 02, 2003, 10:32:33 AM »

I,m still running a voodo 4 on my new pc. Celeron 1.7 , 512 megs DDR333. With vsynch enabled my frame rates are from 75 down to 40. I'm using the last whql cert drivers from 3Dfx. So for this game a voodoo 4 is just fine, for other newer games it might be a different story, its next on my upgrade list.

Back to your lock ups though, I doubt it is from your voodoo 4. My new mb has on board sound using the c media 8738 chip and it was causing lockups. Updating to the newest drivers from the c media site fixed that.

Not much help ffor you really, just didn't want you to by a new video card if you dont need it.