Locking up - wasn't before

[vortexwx]

I had very few problems with the game crashing at first as long as I would re-start the game every couple hours or so (on those 10 hour gamplay days) but now after about 30 minutes I get a high-pitched tone and my pc locks up and/or shuts down. Nothing shows up in my event logs or error logs. The game itself does not crash . I have uninstalled/reinstalled my soundcard and graphics card drivers, as well as the game. I have defragmented my hd in between uninstalling and re-installing the game, cleaned my registry, started over with fresh characters and everything.

No viruses, spyware, malware, etc.

If anyone has a clue as to what the problem might be, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks!

 

AMD Sempron 2600+ (1.83 GHz)

MSI KT4A-V (K7) MB Via chipset

Creative Soundblaster Live! 5.1

GeForce FX 5500oc 256MB AGP 8x

60 Gig Maxtor ATA HD

512MB ram

[Marka Ragnos]

well, try updating to the latest drivers. if that doesn't do anything try adding disable vertex buffer objects=1 in your swkotor2.ini under graphics options. I had a minor bug with my 6600gt and it went away immediately.

[ReconSOC]

I had very few problems with the game crashing at first as long as I would re-start the game every couple hours or so (on those 10 hour gamplay days) but now after about 30 minutes I get a high-pitched tone and my pc locks up and/or shuts down. Nothing shows up in my event logs or error logs. The game itself does not crash . I have uninstalled/reinstalled my soundcard and graphics card drivers, as well as the game. I have defragmented my hd in between uninstalling and re-installing the game, cleaned my registry, started over with fresh characters and everything.

No viruses, spyware, malware, etc.

If anyone has a clue as to what the problem might be, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks!

 

AMD  Sempron 2600+ (1.83 GHz)

MSI KT4A-V (K7) MB Via chipset

Creative Soundblaster Live! 5.1

GeForce FX 5500oc 256MB AGP 8x

60 Gig Maxtor ATA HD

512MB ram

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

Same thing happened to me. Same attempts to fix the thing. I am at the very end of the game and then I locked up. After that lock up I am no longer able to stay in game more than a couple minutes without having the sound freak out and then the entire machine freezes. I can't do anything except power off or reset. I played through the entire game with a few crashes (maybe 2 the entire time) and now it just crashes every time I start a new character, or load an old saved game. This is VERY frustrating.

 

Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz

Creative SB Audigy Gamer

GeForce 6800 Ultra OC

1 Gig RAM

Win XP SP2

80 Gig HDD with 30 Gig free

 

All my drivers are up to date.

[vortexwx]

All my drivers are up to date. No lagging on Dantooine (only very briefly) so the disable vertex thing isn't my issue. I used that when I had my processor running at 1.1 GHz...that has been months ago now.

 

I do think I figured it out, though. I added a second fan to the inside of my case...I had checked my cpu/system temperature and it was over 130 F... I played for over two hours straight without it crashing. In fact, in never did crash again after that. But, that was only last night, and only for one session. I will try again today and post my findings.

[vortexwx]

It still works...played over 2 hours no crashing

[ReconSOC]

It still works...played over 2 hours no crashing

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So all of a sudden, your box was too hot? That makes no sense, yet at the same time it does make sense. What I can't figure out is - why was I able to run so long previous to that fatal crash? And now I can not play for more than a couple minutes?

 

I have never had heat problems. I do know that my CPU runs about 135F, but that has never been a problem and I thought that was a normal temperature. I will try adding a fan and see if that helps...

[vortexwx]

It still works...played over 2 hours no crashing

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So all of a sudden, your box was too hot? That makes no sense, yet at the same time it does make sense. What I can't figure out is - why was I able to run so long previous to that fatal crash? And now I can not play for more than a couple minutes?

 

I have never had heat problems. I do know that my CPU runs about 135F, but that has never been a problem and I thought that was a normal temperature. I will try adding a fan and see if that helps...

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MSI motherboards - the kind I have - apparently have a issue with overheating. Apparently the longer I kept my computer on, the worse it got. Plaved another 3 hours after the 2 hr run and not a single problem. That was the only thing I changed.

 

Hope it works for you