Demo Crashing, Will the Full Game?

[ElSalzo 10]

I downloaded the demo a few days ago. On the first day after I downloaded it, I was able to play it just fine for several hours using the mission editor only.

The next day, when I tried to play it I had a crash where I was able to see all of the player model textures on my screen. Then it went black. I had not adjusted any of my system settings or installed/uninstalled any programs. I rebooted my system and within a minute or so of starting a game it would crash without fail. I checked online and found that other players with Nvidea 8800s wee having problems. I have a 9800 GT but they're similar.

I tried updating my drivers to 186.18 and it continued to crash at a ferocious pace as soon as I would begin actual gameplay.

I changed startup parameters by adding -maxmem=1000 and it continued to crash. I reduced my view distance significantly and it continued to crash.

I then updated my driver to 190.38 beta and tried it a few minutes ago and it let me play for several seconds and then crashed as soon as I tried to change from 1st to 3rd person view as an infantryman. I could still hear the game for a few moments but I lost my visuals. It then crashed to a driverless display (similar to safe mode) and I received a window that said "Windows-Display Driver Stopped Responding". It added that "the nv4_disp display driver has stopped working normally. Save your work and reboot the system to restore full display."

I was really looking forward to this game, but after the demo I don't know if I want to risk paying $60 for a game that I can't play and that is going to shut down my display drivers.

Is there a solution to my demo crashing so I can have a stable playing experience? If not, are the patches for the full retail version resolving crash issues?

I have:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual

Core Processor 4000+

2.10 Ghz

3GB ram

Windows XP Service Pack 2

Nvidea 9800 GT

I'm not a computer expert but I do my best. If you need more information let me know.

[wooly-back-jack 10]

you certainly will keep crashing, as I am matey.

Hold off buying it until there is a working patch (I'll let you know in this thread if the new patch stops my game crashing)

I had my longest game for a while tonight, ohh 10 minutes!

was on a motorbike with my mate on the back and was doing fine heading towards the objective, I thought my problems were over but as I got to the last village before the objective and I panned the view in 3rd person just before turning right and ...CTD.

It is definately something to do with taking textures/details in or something

[ElSalzo 10]

What I can't figure out, though, is why the game worked fine for hours on end, but then the next day started crashing all over on me.

[wooly-back-jack 10]

Mine worked at first too mate, now it wont work for toffee dunno wether its bad caching or bad other stuff, but It also affected HDD function at one point.

Spent all day tweaking, testing, registry cleaning, defragging... it's just naffed, I have given up

[Bulldogs 10]

I'm not sure what the cause is, sounds like the virtual memory is getting flooded but could be something else (check your page file size, should be set at 1.5x your amount of ram for initial size and 3 times your ram for max size, or just set to windows managed size)

Also, goto your video card manufacturers website and download the latest drivers they have (they usually aren't as up to date as nVidia's but they're more stable for your card)

But I would also avoid buying the game until you find the problem/solution or til a patch is released for the full version that fixes the issue.

As a side note, I've noticed a lot of people with either 8800gt or 9800GT having a similar issue. I use a 9800GT and never had a problem but my card also seems to run well above what most people benchmark their cards at (lucky buy for me I guess). I'm using the Asus 512mb version.