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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: RAIDER14 on January 03, 2006, 08:37:48 PM
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:furious :furious The infamous bsod appeared again after I just got my computer back from the geek squad store I tried to run fs2004 and boom blue screen appears. Would the bsod appear if I tried to run Ah:confused:
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1) How is that POS game giving you so much trouble and 2) why not wait for the next MSFS?
Did you explain what your problem was with it? Did you tell them the game you were trying to play and when it would occur? They have nothing to go on unless you give them good info.
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yeah told them it was freezeing up and etc.,They said they updated the driver but I ran Fs2004 a short while a go and during gameplay boom!! bsod appeared I restarted my comp ran Fs2004 boom bsod appeared again restarted it again and you know:rolleyes: so I'm pretty much sick of it so I am pending a return to Ah after a few months absences will Ah run on my comp?
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Have you uninstalled and then re installed the game? Make sure you get ALL of the files out. You may have something corrupt but I doubt it. There's gotta be something wrong with your hardware.
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but if bsod appeared while trying to run Fs2004 will it appear if I run Ah
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Not sure, it's only a 15-20 minute download to check though.
Do you have service pack 2 from Microsoft? It might be causing it. Is it dying right as the game launches or after playing for a few minutes (excuse me for not reading all your previous posts).
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Dark-Side-Windows-XP-SP2.html That link explains some of the problems of SP2 and you may be able to find something on it.
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FS2004 syst. requirements
2000/XP – 128 MB Ram
98/Me – 64 MB Ram
Processor:450 MHz minimum
Available hard drive space:1.8 GB
DirectX 9 or later (included with Microsoft Flight Simulator: A Century of Flight)
Video card: 8 MB/3D with DirectX 7.0 or later drivers
Other: mouse, joystick/yoke, sound card, speakers/headphones
Online/multiplayer: 56.6 kbps modem or LAN
ACES HIGH req.
CPU:900 Mhz
Memory:256mb
Vid Card:Hardware accelerated support
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See how much more strain Flight sim will put on your computer? With AH you only have a few maps with the same textures. This isn't to say MSFS has a ton of different textures but they have mapped the "globe" you could say and that is all preloaded onto your computer I believe. Not to mention all the extra's like the planes, the weather, lights etc. I think your vid. card will run it if i remember correctly. How many MB of RAM do you have? You might want to think about going a full gig if you haven't already. I'm not expert though so take what I say with a grain of salt. (Consult a pro before spending $100+)
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My System Specifications
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) XP/MP/4 1917MHz
Display Card NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
Memory 256MB
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP
Free Disk Space 30.76GB
Display Card Memory 128MB
Display Driver Version 5.2.1.6
DirectX Version 9.0c
Optical Drive CD
Sound Card N/A
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I'd really say slap another 512MB in there. If not 768MB. It's pricey though so you might not want to. Like I said, ask someone that knows more about computers, i'm just an amateur. Your video card would be fine but i'm not really up on the Geforce cards, i'm more of an ATI guy.
Did your computer run the game before? If so, did you change anything since it last ran?
Good luck
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It plays for a while and freezes so I might uninstall Fs2004 will this bsod occurances happen with other games?:confused:
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Seems the period key is on the fritz too. :rofl
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If you are doing low alt flying and it does it to you then take a look at that site, the guy describes getting froze after 5-10 minutes of low alt flying, just do to the textures taking an extremly large amount of space. Try taking the 747 up to 35,000.
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256 Mb and XP is barely enough to surf pr0n on the net with nothing open except IE and ur fly :D. Games require a minimum of 512Mb, preferably 2 gigs these days.
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First, uninstall then reinstall FS2004. Then go to this (http://www.microsoft.com/games/flightsimulator/fs2004_update9.1_english.asp) site and get all the latest updates. If at that time you still get crashes, you have a hardware issue. (probably)
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Originally posted by RAIDER14
My System Specifications
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) XP/MP/4 1917MHz
Display Card NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
Memory 256MB
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP
Free Disk Space 30.76GB
Display Card Memory 128MB
Display Driver Version 5.2.1.6
DirectX Version 9.0c
Optical Drive CD
Sound Card N/A
Thats your problem right there dude. I have the same video card and FS2004 works great for me so I don't think thats the issue. The 256MB system RAM looks like it's the problem. I started out with 512 in my machine and FS2004 would get slow on me from time to time. I had to turn a bunch of settings down to get it to work right. I upgraded to 1gig of system RAM and have had NO problems since. That game is a memory hog. Also what speed dose your hard drive run at? I would assume that if it's a "newer" computer it would have a 7200RPM hard drive. If not that can cause problems as well. Have you downloaded any after market / freeware aircraft? Improper installation of those will cause massive problems as well. I paid for the FS Addon Manager program and that works great to upload new aircraft, scenery, and updates to aircraft.
I would suggest that you un install FS2004, then go to your program folders and manually delete anything else that has to do with FS2004 and do a fresh reload of it. Then go back and install any after market aircraft 1 at a time and test the game with that plane before you add anymore, ecspecialy if your doing a manual install of the planes where you are copying the aircraft folders, gages, effects, and moduals into the game. If thats not done correctly the game will eat itself. Do you have the latest FSUIPC.DLL file installed? If not you can get it from FlightSim.com. Create a free account then go to the main download page. There is a "MUST HAVE" file section there that has a bunch of special files needed for using after market files.
I'm pretty good at FS98/2000/2002/2004. I've had them all and have screwed up enough times and reloaded that I'm fairly proficient at it. Hell I have over 100 aircraft in my ready hanger right now with about anouther 150 or so in my zip file hanger. Tons of scenery files loaded and active.
If you see me online on the roster PM me with any questions you have and I'll try to help out as best I can. I fly Knights with the JG44 Night Hawks and we run on channel 117VOX. Drop in if you have questions that way too.
Good luck with it.
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This may seem like a giant step back but will my comp run Fs98 with the comp stats listed above?
yeah I know Fs98:huh :O :rofl
but I have about a Cargo ship full of add ons for it
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Get more ram.
Like ripley said 256 is hardly enough to run XP.
Sounds like FS04 has a minor memory leak and is running you out while you play.
How old is your O/S install?
What did the geek sqaud do to it?
Why did they not beat you with the "need more ram stick"?
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While the guys telling you to get more ram are right, if you back off on the eye candy trhe program should work. If you get the update that I directed you to in my prior post, I think your problem will be fixed. The patch addresses a memory leak issue and it describes very similar symtoms to yours. If you have a bootleg copy you're up the creek.