Crashing all the time

[balseraph668]

Ok... I am having a hell of a time getting this game working. It crashes on me at the drop of a hat. Get into a coversation and it crashes. Go to an area that requires a load and it crashes. Walk around a corner and it crashes. Walk across a romm and then everyone disappears and it crashes. Most of the itme is just dumps me to desktop but there have been a few where it required doing a soft shutdown by hitting the power button.

 

I did the DX diagnostics on both sound and vedio and they both checked out fine.

 

I have the game patched

 

I have the latest drivers for my Sound card and video card.

 

As for system...

 

Athlon 2700 2.17 ghz

XP pro with sp2

1 gig ddr 400 dual channel

ATI 9200 SE with catalyst 5.4 drivers

SB live

 

Any help would be appriciated. These crashes are totally ruining my gameplay experience. When I cant even go three minutes or one long conversation in the game something is wrong.

[SteveThaiBinh]

When was the last time you reformatted your hard drive and re-installed Windows?

 

I know I say this a lot, but it really worked for me.

[balseraph668]

When was the last time you reformatted your hard drive and re-installed Windows?

 

I know I say this a lot, but it really worked for me.

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On 02 13 2005 when I built the machine from the ground up.

[SteveThaiBinh]

ATI cards seem to cause lots of problems. And this forum's search limitations makes it hard to find all the threads connected to it, but I know that there have been lots (and lots) of such threads, proposing little tweaks and changes that worked for some people, but not for everyone. The best I can suggest is to go through all these old threads and try everything they suggest until you find something that works for you.

 

Edit: Did you get the game recently? You might try playing it without the patch, as that seemed to create as many problems as it solved.

[balseraph668]

I'll try running ti patchless. Will my current saves work with it patchless though or am I going to have to restart. As for getting it recently yeah... got it this weekend.

[Ashtray]

Ok... I am having  a hell of a time getting this game working.  It crashes on me at the drop of a hat.  Get into a coversation and it crashes.  Go to an area that requires a load and it crashes.  Walk around a corner and it crashes.  Walk across a romm and then everyone disappears and it crashes.  Most of the itme is just dumps me to desktop but there have been a few where it required doing a soft shutdown by hitting the power button. 

 

I did the DX diagnostics on both sound and vedio and they both checked out fine. 

 

I have the game patched

 

I have the latest drivers for my Sound card and video card. 

 

As for system...

 

Athlon 2700  2.17 ghz

XP pro with sp2

1 gig ddr 400 dual channel

ATI 9200 SE with catalyst 5.4 drivers

SB live

 

Any help would be appriciated.  These crashes are totally ruining my gameplay experience.  When I cant even go three minutes or one long conversation in the game something is wrong.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

i would make sure you have the lastest motherboard drivers installed.

also dont overclock anything and try turning your ram to safe settings in the bios if its at CAS 2 set it to CAS 3.

might be a bit slower but the stabilty will be there.

[Replicators]

http://swforums.bioware.com/viewtopic.html...383347&forum=80

 

It's the same issue for kotor2 aswell.