Farske

Hello I played OFP demo years ago and loved it, then forgot about the game, in november last year I went to game and saw OFP GOTY edition and snatched it up with glee. I played it, it worked I formatted and had other games. Recently I upgraded my system and now have. (I made the system myself): Operating System: Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1 System Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer INC. System Model: A7N8X-X BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2600+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.1GHz Memory: 512MB RAM Page File: 180MB used, 4302MB available DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0b (4.09.0000.0902) GFX Card: Radeon 9600 Pro 256mb PowerColor Sound (Onboard) : NVIDIA® nForce Audio 3 HardDrives. (all big) 1 DVD Player. 1 CD/RW. (not attached due to harddrive) Yesterday I installed the game, patched it then came online and patched it again to 1.96 (latest one) and started to play. Wow the memories, the emotion! I loved it, I enjoyed the brief story and was like THEN the terrible happened. It suddenly froze, I couldnt do a thing, frozen and I HAD to restart. No sound, no movement, nothing it was all froze. I tried again, froze. I changed loads of settings, tried again, I turned down agp to x4, then down to OFF I turned off fast write, I turned down my Bios settings. I have searched and searched and alas, I am still in dire need of advice. If anyone knows anything please let me know. I HAVE emailed BIS and thought I should ask here too. Thanks in advance, and anything I missed please do ask. Regards Farske

Hail AHHHH I crashed today in Max Payne, and It was a Memory Dump. This leads me to two things with my small experience, bad memory (like Avon Mom said before) or bad drivers with Chipset and bios. I am getting a stick next week, so I can test memory next week. Argh, the joys of computers... I will update you as my journey enfolds regards F

I had another play with it this morning, I disconnected the storage drives and just used my main drive C. It still froze and locked. *sigh* I felt the hard drive and it did feel quite hot, Ill get another fan and put it on the hard drive, I also have an old heatsink for HD's Ill put that on. See if that makes a difference, recently the sound drivers been playing up big time. Next week, wednesday sometime a friend of mine is coming over. An Overclocking master and his computer specs blow ANYONEs away, he spent about 5 grand on his computer.. madness but hey.. he should be able to help any heat issues! (hes bring over his old and spare parts) Apart from that encouraging news from my friend. I'm still stuck! Any help, still appriciated. Regards F

Whats the launcher for? edit: Downloaded it, used it.. makes it easier I assume ;D F

I thought why explain when I can take a pic! Ive taken some pics of the computer. 1 - Inside computer 2 - Again inside but closer 3 - Front (where it sits) (side is always off) 4 - Picture 2 but LABELED Pictures are here - ME - regarding your questions Ill answer them directly. CPU Dust - checked that when I cleaned it out hard drive heat - testing in about 20 mins! chipset drivers ... hrm I downloaded the files placebo said, which were the latest chipset drivers. *shrug* ta Cables seem okay. See if you can notice anything. It runs with the side cover off. thanks for the advice. Hope rising!! Regards Hopeful Farske

Hail I put in my sisters GForce (got to give it back very soon) and it worked much longer full half hour, with a massive loss in visuals but it worked, BUT!! as I got hope.. ===================================================================== == C:\Program Files\Codemasters\Operation Flashpoint\flashpointresistance.exe ===================================================================== Exe version: Wed Jul 14 02:15:03 2004 graphics: Direct3D HW T&L , Device: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 , Driver:nv4_disp.dll 6.14.10.5216 resolution: 1024x768x32 Addons: VoiceRH in voicerh\, Bizon in bizon\, Su25 in su25\, 6G30 in 6g30\ BIS_WeaponPack in o_wp\, BMP2 in bmp2\, Kozlice in kozl\, Steyr in steyr\, AH64 in apac\ Vulcan in vulcan\, Hunter in hunter\, Kolo in kolo\, Mini in mini\, Trabant in trab\ G36a in g36a\, BRDM in brmd\, Ch47D in ch47\, HMMWV in humr\ LaserGuided in laserguided\, Noe in noe\, OH58 in oh58\, XMS in xms\ BIS_Resistance in o\, Flags1 in flags\, MM1 in mm-1\, Bradley in m2a2\ Mods: RES ======================================================= Date: 07/16/04 Time: 01:26:14 ------------------------------------------------------- Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION at 0000000B Version 1.96 Fault address: 0000000B 00:0000000B Unknown module file: 03bSecondService world: Noe campaign: resistance battle: Outrage mission: SecondService Registers: EAX:00000000 EBX:16D73300 ECX:104ADA00 EDX:00714154 ESI:1261EDC0 EDI:13066900 CS:EIP:001B:0000000B SS:ESP:0023:0012F9C8 EBP:0012FB14 DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:0038 GS:0000 Flags:00010246 ======================================================= GOD DAMN!!! *shakes fist at the computer* so is it something else or just TWO bad gfx cards.. arghh *sighs* Regards F

Thats a point, ill steal my sisters card, whack it in, install, patch and thent try OFP with that. IF it crashes.. BAH If it DOESNT crash.. Ill be angry at ATI. I shall let you know!

Ah hrm, well I guess I got to wait and I have no spare card lying about, nae. I could nick my sisters card, but thats just mean... GForce. Ive emailed PowerColor (ATI Distributer) a complaint about the card. We will see what happens. Regards F

Oh, that simple huh... I thought it VIA was an "engine" type thing and NForce that takes it and uses it. Like ATI Cards done by Powercolor, Sapphire and alike ah ok, ta

I already have a couple of days ago I hope they give support good enough to fix it! I wonder if its Radeon cards, or the ATI Card conflicting with the NForce Chipset? Is it VIA? Im not sure... Anyone know? Its an A78N8X-X Deluxe (AsusTek) How would I find out if its VIA? *shrug* (oh btw, I use Mozilla ) Regards F

Hello I was playing OFP just and I had a crash to the desktop and I got this: ===================================================================== == C:\Program Files\Codemasters\Operation Flashpoint\FLASHPOINTRESISTANCE.EXE ===================================================================== Exe version: Wed Jul 14 02:15:03 2004 graphics: Direct3D HW T&L , Device: RADEON 9600 SERIES , Driver:ati2dvag.dll 6.14.10.6451 resolution: 1024x768x32 Addons: VoiceRH in voicerh\, Bizon in bizon\, Su25 in su25\, 6G30 in 6g30\ BIS_WeaponPack in o_wp\, BMP2 in bmp2\, Kozlice in kozl\, Steyr in steyr\, AH64 in apac\ Vulcan in vulcan\, Hunter in hunter\, Kolo in kolo\, Mini in mini\, Trabant in trab\ G36a in g36a\, BRDM in brmd\, Ch47D in ch47\, HMMWV in humr\ LaserGuided in laserguided\, Noe in noe\, OH58 in oh58\, XMS in xms\ BIS_Resistance in o\, Flags1 in flags\, MM1 in mm-1\, Bradley in m2a2\ Mods: RES ======================================================= Date: 07/15/04 Time: 13:45:03 ------------------------------------------------------- Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION at 77F727F8 Version 1.96 Fault address: 77F727F8 01:000217F8 C:\WINDOWS\System32\ntdll.dll file: 02Crossroad world: noe campaign: resistance battle: Outrage mission: Crossroad Prev. code bytes: FF 88 5D 0B E9 7C 65 FF FF 32 C0 E9 6A 18 00 00 Fault code bytes: 83 4E 04 08 EB F3 55 8B EC 51 51 56 57 8D 45 F8 Registers: EAX:00000000 EBX:00000000 ECX:77F60B98 EDX:77F79BB8 ESI:00000000 EDI:00000000 CS:EIP:001B:77F727F8 SS:ESP:0023:0012F0DC EBP:0012F0FC DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:003B GS:0000 Flags:00010287 ======================================================= I cant understand it, I would imagine none of you could understand it either, hehe regardless anyone have any more ideas ? *sigh* Regards A Sad OFP Fan/Player

I just typed in Radeon 9600 Pro Freezing in google and went to Hardware Analysis and WOW 10k replies to a post there bascially talking about the problem I have. I will go out and buy a new card when I can. So on that regard.. anyone suggest an ideal GFX card? regards Farske EDIT: ITs going to be a couple of weeks until I have enough cash to get a GFX card, and if I can get OFP to work with this GFX Card id love it!! So please, any other ideas?

Ok, hehe Ill take it back out, I havent installed it yet. Any you recommend, Ill get one in next couple of days. thanks -F

Hi later on im going to disconnect my two HardDrives that are used for storage and put in my old SoundBlaster 16 Card ( I have those drivers) THEN we will see if it works, ever since I updated my sound my sound is all crackly and crashes... *mutters* stupid onboard sound!! thanks so far and Ill be back later on (going out) regards Farske

I wont be the PSU its a beefy one. 550Ws (expensive one)

Hello No, the other patch didnt work. Arg. Thanks so far. Farske

Back I whacked in my card, but I remember that I lent my CD to my friend. Never got it back, thus I cant install drivers, I went to the website and there is only patches for the cards. Damn, so I enabled my mobo sound again and Ive tried it without VPU. When I can try the 5.1 SCard will be a long time, my mate is currently in spain for a week holiday (went yesterday) .. tyyyypical! So currently im stuck, I cant try the sound test. Would downloaded the patch from vanilla install of GOTY to the latest patch 1.96 INSTEAD of going 1.91 then 1.91-1.96.. would that work, well im going to try Any other ideas would be great, thanks for all your help so far. The most annoying thing is sometimes I can play it for a full 5 mins and that 5 mins are awesome!! then its taken away Tata -F

VPU.. No.. Ill try that after I downloaded the latest SB Live drivers thanks! .F

Hi hi! I have OPF GOTY.. I install the the 1.91 patch then the 1.91-1.96 patch. I only installed using one Drive. I have not moved any folders or messed with regedit. I did a clean install, regrsty, directory, etc. I have a 5.1 Soundblaster card, Ill put that in and see if anything changes.. thanks regards F edit: removed a confusing sentance

I did a complete reinstall and played... it crashed. Argh. Any ideas anyone? *sigh* -F

Ok, I downloaded it and installed the update for the chipset. I loaded up flashpoint and it crashed to desktop with omega I unistalled omega drivers and installed ATI CATA drivers, and it worked until the end of the first campaign mission (shooting the men at your home) then it froze when I clicked the Stats page/paper. I dont know if its a conicedence, but all in all it still has the problem. Im about to uninstall and reinstall OPF and then patch it up and see if the reinstall NOW works *sigh* joys.. but dont you hate it when you can taste the game!! I had a bit of it and It was great.. I could taste it!! *mutters* then it crashed. Thanks so far for your support, any other ideas? Regards Farske

No if you read above I HAVE used the ATI cata drivers. I decided to download the OMEGA Drivers and they are supported by ATI but by someone else. All they are, are the ATI Cata Drivers, with extra options and tiny mods. Ive tried both and they both freeze. I'll try this nforce, then try both ATI Cata and OMEGA ones. tata F

Ah okay, thank you.. I havent got time to download it right now (awaiting phone calls) I will download it about 5-6pm later (GMT) Ill let you know how I get on. (note: 56k Modem Dial up) heh Tata, thanks HOPE!! -Happy, Hopefull Farske

no, it was http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_audio_4.31_win2KXP Windows XP / 2K - Audio Driver Version: 4.31 Why? -Farske

Okay, I downloaded 4.1 and installed and played and it froze again. Arg, what next any ideas? The Bios, I cannot figure out how to update. Im not used to these fancy AWDFlash features. I have looked online and given up. I dont think its the bios. Regards -Farske