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Help and Support Forums => Technical Support => Topic started by: Zanth on November 01, 2003, 10:19:37 PM
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This one has me pulling my hair (what is left) out.
AH will just exit and put me at desktop. I can play my other, no offense, more advanced and graphicaly intense games for hours and all cool. For some reason though AH has taken to just exiting to my XP PRO desktop with no error message, nuthing. It just quits.
No temperature issues (and like I said everything else runs fine). I can run 3DMArk in a loop for 24 hours and not a single bump in the road.
I am freakin without a clue, the game just quits without error.
Have tried:
Complete windows reinstall
Complete game reinstall (from fresh download)
I know it sounds like a hardware problem, but why:
(1) AH only game or application effected?
(2) Why when game crashed there is no Windows XP error report generation?
I am next going to dual-boot to windows 98 and see if trouble recreates.
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Can you throw up a copy of your DxDiag?
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If it is happening online, then AH is simply shutting down, due to a lost connection to the server. Run a pingplot to the MA and see if there us something amiss somewhere.
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A bad terrain will cause this to happen also ...
If someone changes the terrain and your still using the old one ..
(note : bolth terrains have the same name and this causes the problem)
just another thing to look at ..
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Not had time to try any of this yet, but will try later today thanks for the ideas. Yeah the game is just quitting without warning. No messages in game of from windows at all.
(67 discos last tour, I have since put in another video card but that wasn't the answer either)
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
If it is happening online, then AH is simply shutting down, due to a lost connection to the server. Run a pingplot to the MA and see if there us something amiss somewhere.
Is happening again. First flight was diving on a plane poof back at desktop no error message.
I turn on neotrace and leave running in background second flight. I can hear it pinging in my headset. Sure nuff 1/2 way to base poof at desktop again. Neotrace screen is already up so was easy to see looked fine. Was no record of lost packets along the way either.
This is a weird one. So far this tour 2 flights = two "Discos" :(
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http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/ah_164_1067895049.zip
dxdiag
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Zanth next time it happens record exact time then go to control panal\administative tools\event viewer, look under applications and system, find an event whitch matches the time of the CTD and double click it. It will tell you what happend.
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Zanth, try this. Move the AH "settings" folder to another name. This is require all your stuff to be reconfigured, but just try it and see what happens.
You might have some corruption in one of the config files.
Also, if you have any squad art in the "squads" folder, remove it.
Make sure you are using stock AH sounds as well.
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Had it happen 4 times this AM. Finally it let me stay on for a good while. It is odd that I can just rerun the game and sometimes it works.
- No entries in event viewer, though thta was a good suggestion. (Windows is plenty happy which is confusing, you would think Windows would complain but it treats this as a normal program termination)
- I have already done the new installed fresh download, new config files and all.
- I have deleted the squad art folder a few times, I suspected it early on because when our squad reorganized was about when this started. (Is there anyway to stop the squad art from loading again?) (I will trying leaving my squad and see if it helps)
For lack of other clues I am starting to suspect vox. Are there some diagnostics I can do to eliminate vox?
- Can I disable vox, say maybe close those ports with my firewall? (I have already eliminated firewall as the trouble)
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Does it happen when you are close to a specific plane ?
I got insta-CTD when attacking 109F4 I was having a corrupted sound file ...
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I've had coruped plane files to cause CDT on a couple of occasions, uninstalling and reinstalling did not repair the problem, but when I uninstalled and defraged before reinstalling the problem was fixed. Also not having an event entry sugest there's nothing wrong with your connection.
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Originally posted by zmeg
uninstalling and reinstalling did not repair the problem, but when I uninstalled and defraged before reinstalling the problem was fixed.
Don't know why this would work but I'll give it a try later. ( I have defragged but it was after clean install.)
Today I have left the game running while I am away offline for some hours. When I came back jet was still doing lazy circles on runway.
Have a jet (jet is one I have lost a few times to this) zoom round the edges of DA for about an hour (minimized) I check on it from time to time seems ok. (oops when I sent this aceshigh shut down - but that was probably from me running too many applications)
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Uninstalling AH does not remove the "settings" folder. You have to manually remove it. Resetting things will not to the trick either.
Zanth, just move the "settings" folder to a new name and try it. You can always restore the folder back if that is not the problem.
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I got tired of fooling with it yesterday, but I did go as far as to delete/move all AH stuff from the C drive and defrag it again. I also went ahead and disabled all the services you mentioned in your "Tips" post (trying to cover all recommended bases)
Will do a clean reinstall later today to see what happens and report back.
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Originally posted by Zanth
I got tired of fooling with it yesterday, but I did go as far as to delete/move all AH stuff from the C drive and defrag it again. I also went ahead and disabled all the services you mentioned in your "Tips" post (trying to cover all recommended bases)
Will do a clean reinstall later today to see what happens and report back.
In DirectX diagnostics have you tried reducing your sound acceleration a notch left on the scale? I noticed from the file you put up that you did not run the sound diagnostics.
At full acceleration with SB live and also on-board sound chips you will get the random CTDs without warning -guaranteed -unless you reduce acceleration a notch. Try it!
Just one notch left usually is enough to cure it.
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At full acceleration with SB live and also on-board sound chips you will get the random CTDs without warning -guaranteed -unless you reduce acceleration a notch.
Hmmmm... I never get CTD or lose vox with my Nforce 1 OB sound and full acceleration. However, you may be right and it may cure Zanth's problem.
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I figured it out. Another thread about power supplies got me to thinking.
It was RAM voltage. The MB with voltage on auto had the RAM a hair below 2.5 volts, Kingsstons spec for these chips is 2.5 (+/-.25) volts. Remebering from overclocking that increasing voltages can sometimes help stability I took a shot. I tweaked the voltages to the high side of Kingstons specs (but still not not over) and I seem solid again now.
I had added another stick of RAM, but it didnt give me trouble right off (until I started fooling with video cards). It was the same exact manufacturer (Kingston) and part number as the other one, but was 1 year newer and had hyniz (sp) instead of samsung chips. I guess the newer chip isn't as tolerant of low voltages.
I have never had the trouble with SB cards others do, just lucky I guess. When I get troubles they are weird stuff like this.
(editted to add more detail for future reference of others.)