Crash to desktop while moving in ground vehicles

[Donnervogel 0]

Ok I have this strange Problem with OFP for some time now and I didn't find any thread about it,

The Problem only occurs when I am moving in ground vehicles at high speed or in larger convoys. The faster the Vehicle is the sooner I crash to desktop. It doesn't happen with really slow vehicles. And it doens't happen when I'm flying with helos or planes.

Does anybody know about this problem? Actually I tried everything to solve it. A complete reinstall of my system and defragmentation of the hard disk helped slightly. Now It takes some more time until I crash.

Actually I don't think it can be solved and I've never heard that anyone else has this problem. It appears to be a specific problem with my system.

I write this just to report that problem.

It didn't happen on my old computer (AMD Thunderbird Processor and ASUS A7V Board and Creative Live! Player Soundcard). Now I have a faster AMD XP processor and a NForce2 Board with onboard sound (ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe). I still have the same GeForce 3 Graphics card. I have a Windows 2000 System and OFP Res 1.91 (but it happens OFP in 1.46 too)

And yes everything was tested with differend drivers and with the newest available drivers. Now I am using DX 8.1 but I had the same problem with DX 9.

The odd thing is that is only happens in ground vehicles.

I have two theories:

1. It's some sort of hardware-OFP incompability.

2. It's a hardware only problem, but then I can't explain why it doens't happen in other games and why only in ground vehicles.

I even tried to fly with helos 1 m over the ground as fast as I could (obviously I crashed very often *G) and it didn't happen.

Anybody heard about soemthing like this?

[suma 8]

The most efficient help for crashing is here and there.

[Donnervogel 0]

Yes I tried all the tipps available. Nothing helped.

The only thing I didn't do is e-mailing you because I wanted to ask if anybody heard about the problem first.

[theavonlady 2]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Donnervogel @ 04 May 2003,21:53)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1. It's some sort of hardware-OFP incompability.<span id='postcolor'>

I doubt that. Sounds like some sort of a hardware error and OFP is hitting the soft spot.

Are your system's BIOS, on-board sound and chipset components all updated with the latest patches/upgrades?

Just my intuition.

[Donnervogel 0]

yes and tested with older versions too...

I found out something new. It has something to do with loading forrests. I drove trough half nogova and nothing happened until I came to a part with some forrests. then it started to buck everytime a forrest part was loaded until it crashed to desktop. terrain detail did not influence it. I tried all form highest to lowest. The same fits for screen resolution.

[theavonlady 2]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Donnervogel @ 05 May 2003,19:31)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">It has something to do with loading forrests.<span id='postcolor'>

What a coincidence!

Suma?!

[Donnervogel 0]

hmmm looks very similar now that I know of the forrest problem. But ASUS Probe (monitoring software) ist not influencing it. Infact it took less time until I crashed without ASUS Probe running.

Well actually I can't confirm that any program running in the background that I know of is causing it.

EDIT:

But I want to emphasise that I have absolutly NO performance problems with the game appart from this problem. And also when I am moving on foot or flying, the problem does not occur.

[Ballsweat 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Donnervogel @ 04 May 2003,20:53)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">The Problem only occurs when I am moving in ground vehicles at high speed or in larger convoys. The faster the Vehicle is the sooner I crash to desktop. It doesn't happen with really slow vehicles. And it doens't happen when I'm flying with helos or planes.<span id='postcolor'>

Yeah, I know how to fix it. Disable HW T&L. Through my many aimless adventures trying to get OFP: Res to work, that is one thing I stumbled upon. Vehicles and HW T&L don't mix, at least with my old GF3 Ti500 and my 2500+/A7N8X Dlx/1024MB Corsair. Got my Radeon 9700 Pro and got a whole new pile of problems.

[Donnervogel 0]

Hmm thank you. It helped. It's still bucking sometimes but it doesn't crash to desktop.

The funny thing is I was sure that it happened even with T&L on because that was the first thing I tried when the problem occured. But somehow that slipped trough. No Idea what I did wrong then.

However thank you very much. But BI should fix this for OFP2

[CuteQA 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Donnervogel @ 07 May 2003,20:23)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Hmm thank you. It helped. It's still bucking sometimes but it doesn't crash to desktop.

The funny thing is I was sure that it happened even with T&L on because that was the first thing I tried when the problem occured. But somehow that slipped trough. No Idea what I did wrong then.

However thank you very much. But BI should fix this for OFP2 <span id='postcolor'>

mmm....there was a period of time my ofp:res v1.91 keep CTD or reboot my computer for me . It often happen when i use iron sight . but the problem solved after i updated my video card driver.

maybe u guys can give it a try

[Donnervogel 0]

Sorry for digging up this old thread. I just wanted to say that the problem has gone away with the newest chipset drivers (Nforce2) from Nvidia. I thought it's worth to mention it.

[Placebo 29]

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