OFP freezes randomly

[HuNtA 0]

kk... whenever I run OFP, even if its a totally clean install, it will freeze for anywhere from 1 minute to indefinitely at some point (until I turn off my comp manually)

Ive tried reinstalling to a different folder/different drive, used nomap, changed AGP apeture settings (even though its a PCI card )

The usual trend that I get is that I go ingame, and after a min or 2 it freezes, I press Alt tab and ctrl alt delete... and about a minute later it shows the ctrl alt delete screen thing. If I then go back into ofp, within a minute later it freezes again and 99% of the time I cant alt tab/ctrl alt delete out and I have to turn off my comp/turn it back on again

my specs from dxdiag:

System Manufacturer: Dell Computer Corporation

System Model: Dimension 4600i

BIOS: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A10

Processor: Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 3.06GHz (2 CPUs)

Memory: 1534MB RAM

Page File: 308MB used, 2678MB available

Card name: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200

Manufacturer: NVIDIA

Chip type: GeForce FX 5200

DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC

Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0322&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_A1

Display Memory: 128.0 MB

Current Mode: 1152 x 864 (32 bit) (60Hz)

Description: SoundMAX Digital Audio

Default Sound Playback: Yes

Default Voice Playback: Yes

Hardware ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_24D5&SUBSYS_01741028&REV_02

Manufacturer ID: 1

Product ID: 100

Type: WDM

Driver Name: smwdm.sys

Need anymore info.. just ask

[DBR_ONIX 0]

..When did it start freezing? Did you install anything around then, upgrade anything etc?

- Ben

[HuNtA 0]

no, not at all really... I did install CAT aghanistan (the newest version) but as soon as it started freezing, I uninstalled it

[BraTTy 0]

Hmm that sure sounds like the Direct3d AGP Aperature lockup

(do we have a name for it?)

How low did you go with the AGP aperature settings?

[hardrock 1]

Hmm that sure sounds like the Direct3d AGP Aperature lockup

Do we know more about that? Could that be the reason why my OFP always freezes (+ windows error message a few seconds later) in CTIs?

Gonna look up my Aperture Size . . .

Edit: Everest report

Quote[/b] ] Graphics Processor Properties:

Video Adapter ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (R350)

GPU Code Name R350

PCI Device 1002 / 4E48

Transistors 117 million

Process Technology 0.15u

Bus Type AGP 8x

Memory Size 128 MB

GPU Clock 378 MHz (original: 378 MHz)

RAMDAC Clock 400 MHz

Pixel Pipelines 8

TMU Per Pipeline 1

Vertex Shaders 4 (v2.0)

Pixel Shaders 1 (v2.0)

DirectX Hardware Support DirectX v9.0

Pixel Fillrate 3024 MPixel/s

Texel Fillrate 3024 MTexel/s

Memory Bus Properties:

Bus Type DDR

Bus Width 256-bit

Real Clock 338 MHz (DDR) (original: 338 MHz)

Effective Clock 676 MHz

Bandwidth 21.1 GB/s

[HuNtA 0]

can U kinda not hijack my troubleshooting thread

this is really starting to annoy me... no OFP for a week

EDIT: apeture: 32mb or something... but my graphics cards PCI anyway

[hardrock 1]

can U kinda not hijack my troubleshooting thread

1. Topics are not planes, they can't be hijacked

2. This is a public forum. This thread is called "OFP freezes randomly" and as far as I see fits my post perfectly here. Furthermore did Bratty mention something which could solve a problem which I have for long time, so I asked him if he knows more about what he mentioned.

So what's the matter?

[HuNtA 0]

daaarnit I need a hand... not to start getting annoying... but ive just finished an addon and wanna test it...

[BraTTy 0]

Hmm that sure sounds like the Direct3d AGP Aperature lockup

Do we know more about that? Could that be the reason why my OFP always freezes (+ windows error message a few seconds later) in CTIs?

Direct3d bug been around since Unreal Tournament days.I've seen a many computers that had to lower AGP aperature to stop these direct3d lockups.I've had to go as low as 2 megs to stop the lockups before (todays computer with large amounts of ram won't even go to 2 meg)

But that doesn't sound like your problem Hardrock.Normally it locks up upon first 3d draw or up to 30 secs even a minute after playing.And the screen would be frozen to its last viewed (altho you are using ATI and it may be the recovery saving you).

@Hunta ...Have you tried different version video drivers?

Often I've had to downgrade video drivers to fix things

You say clean install of OFP.Have you removed registry entries during these reinstalls? Is that a fresh reformat of your system too?

And has your OFP worked correctly before?

[HuNtA 0]

aye, ofp's been working since 2001 till now

and yeh, the registries were removed

also.. where do I get older drivers? (jus remembered a upgraded a month ago)

[mrlogik 0]

I have the same problem but ive cured it for now, symptoms were ramdom lockups that sometimes [rarely] would recover and keep playing smooth, but more often than not need a complete reboot. I tried all the usual agp apperture size efforts but to no cure, i switched to dx9b or c and new nvidia driver, just before this problem reared its head but im sure its not that im almost definite its the nvidia driver being incompatible in some way with dxdll. I never had probs before using the latest driver and if i turn off dxdll i get no probs at all. I may try reverting to the older nvidia driver this evening and will let you know what gives. card is a gf4 ti 4200.

[HuNtA 0]

I just installed the older nvidia driver and SUCCESS! it works

[lukemax 0]

I think this might solve my prob, can u tell me how you did it?

[lukemax 0]

Doesnt matter i fixed it now