Crashes To Desk Top

[devil22]

Hello All:

I was wondering where to send a film that has captured a crash to desk top? thanks.
Devil22

[lumpyBMF]

I'm having the same issue here.  Aces High randomly crashes to my desktop and must be restarted.  This usually happens when I'm entering or leaving the Combat Theater or H2H.  Coming back into the program seems normal, and it might not happen again for hours, then it'll happen twice in 5 minutes.

Here are my system specs:  

P4 2.53Ghz
512MB RDRAM
64MB GF4 Video
1.5M ADSL Connection


Any ideas on what could be causing this?  I've even gone so far as to disable everything running in the background (except my Norton Internet Security), and it still happens every time I play.  It's getting annoying.

[spiffykraits]

Use the run command box and run "dxdiag"

Check that sound tests are ok, and while in sound section of DirectX diagnostics, move the sound acceleration one notch left (ie reduce it) and exit dxdiag, then see if CTDs still occur.  Sound acceleration turned up full (especially if you have on-board sound) can induce random CTDs occasionally in AH.  

This may not be the culprit, but it is recommended anyway.

[SLO]

what OS.....?

what ver. of DirectX....?

vid card driver ver.....?

did you install something new BEFORE your problems occured?

[lumpyBMF]

WinXP Professional -

DirectX 9

I'm using the newest NVidia drivers from their website.  

Didn't install anything new or change anything besides the Aces High installation.

[SLO]

disable your norton internet sec........

don't need that running in the background while playing.....


2nd......try coming down  1 ver. vid driver......


3rd.....try removing directX 9...(search net for DirectX buster)
use earlier version of directX....


hope at least 1 idea works.....good luck

[spiffykraits]

Originally posted by SLO
disable your norton internet sec........

don't need that running in the background while playing.....


2nd......try coming down  1 ver. vid driver......


3rd.....try removing directX 9...(search net for DirectX buster)
use earlier version of directX....


hope at least 1 idea works.....good luck

I disagree with the first - NIS shouldn't cause any problems at all, and if should be left running. Its overhead is very small, and often I get a number of securiy alerts while running AH, so it does stop Trojan hacking attempts which can be quite common.

[lumpyBMF]

Well I'm with Spiffy on this one.  NIS takes very little resources that run in the background, and I have so much hardware to work with I don't think that's the issue.  There's no way I'm disabling Internet Security while I play - I get way too many Trojan Horse or backdoor attempts to leave myself open like that.  

I can't get rid of DirectX 9, I have a couple of other games that require version 9 and removing it or downgrading would render them inop - I can't see how an older version of DirectX would solve anything, but I'm no expert.  

I tried reverting back to my original video card drivers (the OEM ones) and it didn't work.  Just as many crashes to desktop.  

This is getting very annoying - I love this game, but theres no way I'm paying for it if I can't even get it to run for more than 30 minutes without crashing.  

(I've played with all my hardware settings and nothing seems to work.  DXDIAG is looking perfect, everything is as it should be.  The game crashes whether I'm running the highest or lowest resolutions.  I have the hardware to run the video, I'm at 1024x768 32bit color with full textures running 75fps.)

[DAVENRINO]

I am not having any problems with DX9.  You might try turning down sound hardware acceleration one notch and maybe the Det 41.09 or even 30.82.  Try running the same resolution as your desktop.  If all else fails you might try a fresh full install of AH in case you have some corrupted files.

[Ed561]

Hi!

I have a Ti4200 OTES video card and experienced random crashes to desktop.  This began to happen several months after I purchased the card.  At first I thought it was related to my DX9 upgrade (you should have heard the things I said about Bill Gates....or maybe not ).  I tried reformatting my harddrive even.  No dice.  I tried a second video card (Ti200) and no problems.  It turned out that I had a bad card.  If you were to surf the video card forums (ABit multimedia, Gainward, etc.), you will find that the Ti4200 series of video cards were caught up on the 'bad capacitor' scandal in Taiwan recently.  Bad capaciters have caused a number of different problems with this particular card.  My new ATI card works fine so far.  My Ti4200 has been RMA'd since May 10th and maybe I'll get a replacement by the end of June .  The wife will just have to suck it up with the Ti200 backup card, I guess.

Ed561

[MudMover]

Devil,

I am in the process of dealing with the same problem.  I tried reformatting the HD, installing older drivers, removing programs, reinstalling AH, changing the video settings and just when I am ready to give up I unplugged my USB joystick from the back of the PC and into the USB hub.  Now I have been able to play without a crash.  All day I would only get 30 min before a crash and after I repositioned the joystick plug I didn't crash.   Hope its fixed.

Mud

[Ack-Ack]

Originally posted by lumpyBMF
I'm having the same issue here.  Aces High randomly crashes to my desktop and must be restarted.  This usually happens when I'm entering or leaving the Combat Theater or H2H.  Coming back into the program seems normal, and it might not happen again for hours, then it'll happen twice in 5 minutes.



Any ideas on what could be causing this?  I've even gone so far as to disable everything running in the background (except my Norton Internet Security), and it still happens every time I play.  It's getting annoying.

It's a known bug in AH.  When you exit out of an arena and enter a new one without restarting AH, it tends to crash to desktop.

Ack-Ack