BabaZed 1 Posted April 19, 2002 Help, please some1, ive had this prob for a while now ever since installing Win2k. Everytime i play an online game (not single play) i end up crashing, but not straight away, only when i quit, and if it doesnt happen when i quit, then it happens when i try to restart or shut down the system. Then windows does the file check and ends up truncating various files Eg. (flashpoint.cfg 1 allocation unit not valid truncating file) it does all kinds of weird stuff then offers up file fragments to me in my C: directory (Found 001, Found 002) etc. i'm sure its the reason i've had 2 hard drives in the last 5 months, loads of unwritable sectors apparently, which in turn caused errors in Direct x (not being able to write to its prefered cache i suppose) but i'm no tech head so i'm just grabbing at straws. This is really mashing my system up, i know it has something to do with the firewall, because everythings fine when i shut down the firewall (zone alarm), so i installed Norton firewall 2001 but it does EXACTLY the same thing, can any 1 link me to a free firewall that might be better. But better still i could do with a real tech head telling me exactly what the problem is, i've tried the zone alarm forums but you may as well throw socks at the moon. I'm also getting a lot of pop up in the graphics of OFP ie. bushes and details are popping into view at about 20 feet (game scale) away, dont know if this is a pointer or another problem entirely. Thanx for any correspondance in advance o/s Windows 2000 professional VIA motherboard (latest 4in1 adapters) installed pIII gig 256 ram geforce2 3d prophet gts 32mb Soundblasterlive 5.1 512k cable modem (terayon), through ethernet (realtek) 10mbps Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
