tobymccall

hi suma, thanks for the time. i have an alimagik chipset on a asus a7a board i've looked for updates and there aren't any. recent changes: i got crazy and wipped my computer, installed xp pro, dwloaded all the new xp drivers for video and sound (xp found the rest) and reloaded ofp. same problem. very random though. i've dropped frame rate and visual quality all the way to their lowest and still the same results. today i bought medal of honor. same thing. random hangs. sometime i can get though a mission no problem. my sound card and video share the same irq (11). i changed the pci slot for my sound card in bios from auto to 7, an open irq, and they both changed to 7. again, as i play, i can see it get a bit choppy, then it hangs and repeats the sound playing at moment of the hang. i can only reboot. this is on the original version and all patches. last night i got it to play 3 games with no problem. today it's doing it again.im at my wits end here. i know this game works, i've played it before. and i have a system that can handle these games. please help. -tob

suma you are right on target but we still have a problem i checked the registry and there where multiple entries of ofp. i already unistalled the game so i deleted any registry keys i found through search. i then installed the game again. same problem in default version and on single player mission bomer man. just to test the key code theory, i bought another copy of opf. so i unistalled the old copy, deleted all entries in the registry and installed the new copy. you guessed it, same problem. so i downloaded the newst directx 8.1. then i tested all dx devices and got no problems. still the same lock up during gameplay. the game plays fine, looks fine, sounds fine, for a while, then locks and continues to repeat the last sound like a stutter. i can't get out unless i reboot. i have latest drivers for video, and sound. everything is up to date. this is killing me. i have tried everything i can think of. i played this game for months with no problem, now this. i'm grasping at straws here. i love this game and really want to play again. pls Help bro.

Here's my problem lock up happens during single play and multiplayer games. i can enter a game, but as soon as i interact with something or after a few moments the computer will lock and start to stutter, i.e. repeat the last sound, and i can't use ctrl alt delete or alt tab to exit. I have uninstalled, deleted all folders excluding add-ons, missions and mpmissions, reinstalled, applied each patch separately and restarted after each patch, and still this problem. i even get this "lock up" on earlier versions of the patch. last night i tried to play on gamespy and it locked up everytime. so i tried to uninstall and reinstall again and just play each patch to see if it was the 1.42 patch that was causing the problem. that's when i got the new problem, the game will load all the way to the end and then tell me that a bad key was entered at setup! i know that the key was entered in correctly cause i tried the setup again and typed it slowly, still no luck. so now not only do i have a hosed ofp game, but i don't have a game at all!! I wonder if someone has entered my key code and now my game has degraded. sys info amd 1.4 thunderbird asus a7a board hercules 3d prophet 4500 64mb w/current drivers soundblaster live value w/current drivers 512 mb ddr ram win 2k game runs on separate partition (g:) with 8 gb of space and 1gb paging file. PLEASE HELP ME FIGURE THIS OUT!!! thanks