Unhappy customer 0 Posted September 30, 2003 After upgrading my motherboard CPU graphics card, and upgrading from Win2000 to WinXP, I was experiencing frequent crashes with OFPR V1.92BETA. After some experimenting, I was able to make OFPR somewhat playable again. The first thing to try is this: Right click on the OFPR executable file and select "properties". Next click on the tab that says "compatibility". Under the selection that says "Run this program in compatibilty mode for:" select Windows2000, and check the box. Second thing to try: In the OFPR preferences screen try changing between "Direct3D T&L" and regular "Direct3D". Third thing to try: Get ride of some of your addons and missions and campaigns that you dont play with very often. You can also break up your addons into mod folders ie. Vietnam mod, WWII mod etc. Fourth thing to try: Go into your user folder and get rid of some of your saved user missions, and game saves that you don't use very often. (My user folder was over 80megs!). Fifth thing to try: Uninstall OFPR and OFP completely. Back up your user profile, and addons. Reinstall just OFP (not Resistance). Play the original OFP for a while. Then Reinstall OFP Resistance and start moving only the really good addons that you absolutely must have. Sixth thing: Try increasing the size of your pagefile (About 2X physical memory). Try these out and let me know if any of this worked. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
toadlife 3 Posted September 30, 2003 If you did an upgrade and not a clean install, then it is probably the upgrade from 2k to XP that is causing all of your problems. Anytime you upgrade from one Microsoft OS to another, weird problems tend to arise. They can be a pain in the butt, but clean installs are the only way to go. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Unhappy customer 0 Posted October 1, 2003 Yes I agree that you need to reinstall OFP after upgrading Windows, but even after fresh installs of OFP and OFPR I was still having frequent unexplained crashes to desktop. Â Also you should reinstall all the OFPR patches in correct order after reinstalling (1.91, then 1.92). Â Another weird thing that I found is that OFP1.92BETA doesn't require that the OFPR CD be in the drive! Â Although it seems to crash more frequently without the CD. Â Another thing that seemed to help was changing my DVD drive to secondary/slave, and my CDRW drive to primary/master. Â I'm not quite sure how this would have any effect. Â My CPU voodoo magic isn't quite that good yet... One more thing that seems to help a little is turning down Terrain Object, and cockpit texture level (256X256, 256X256, 512X512 on mine) and having terrain detail on low. Also turn down your viewdistance to under 2km, under 1.5km if you still have problems. I hope they fix the viewdistance problem in OFP 2. In real life a pilot wouldn't even think about flying a CAS mission with less than 2km visibility and no working ILS! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
toadlife 3 Posted October 1, 2003 I wasn't talking about a clean install of OFP. I was talking about a clean install of Windows. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Unhappy customer 0 Posted October 2, 2003 Yes well I did that too... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Acecombat 0 Posted October 2, 2003 THANKS A LOT I think my solution might be lingering in one of those points of yours. *fingers OFP* Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
