Registered: Dec 2001
Location: Scandinavia
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I'll just copy paste from HLP, where I first posted the message...this is bugging the hell outta me......


PIII 800, 124RAM, TNT2, 9.32gb HD, win2kpro sp2...


Ok, this is possibly the first time I ever needed help with fs2. I've had the thing for about 4 years (FS1 also), always ran as it was supposed to. Until about two months ago. The thing started to lock up in any game that I would play (and I mean a big time lockup, ctrl+alt+del doesnt work anymore, I gotta boot manually), and the lockup would occur in the time frame of about 5-15 minutes while I'm ingame and sometimes in the lobby_20 also. So as there was no actual way of me to prevent that (I tried re-installing Windows again, didn't work) so I formated the hard-drive and made a new clean install. It was all working like it was supposed to, until about 3 days ago when it started repeating the same thing. I wondered what did I do to piss it off again, but I couldn't think of anything that I could have done or install that would screw things up... today I put on the new nVidia drivers (40.somethingBeta, instead of 30.something), scanned the disk with norton windoctor, virus check it, I installed a RAM cleaner called Free Mem Pro, I even thought it could be my connection, but then I remembered that when it started to lock up in the first phase (before I formated) that it was locking up in single player also. The first time it was a problem I checked out my TNT2 if it was jacked up, but everything was fine with it and well when I formatted afterwards it was all going well (oh yeah and I reinstalled freespace first, thats a given).

I just don't know what to do anymore...do I have to format the thing every month or?...blah...if anyone can help me it'd be great, but this is starting to suck big time...any IDEA on what to do is also welcome because I'm fresh out...

so...PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!...if you can...

-€dit-, also, I have no mods, no tables, no NOTHING in the FreeSpace directory, this thing just wants to happen on its own -€dit-

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Registered: Dec 2001
Location: Scandinavia
Posts: 271

I'll just copy paste from HLP, where I first posted the message...this is bugging the hell outta me......


PIII 800, 124RAM, TNT2, 9.32gb HD, win2kpro sp2...


Ok, this is possibly the first time I ever needed help with fs2. I've had the thing for about 4 years (FS1 also), always ran as it was supposed to. Until about two months ago. The thing started to lock up in any game that I would play (and I mean a big time lockup, ctrl+alt+del doesnt work anymore, I gotta boot manually), and the lockup would occur in the time frame of about 5-15 minutes while I'm ingame and sometimes in the lobby_20 also. So as there was no actual way of me to prevent that (I tried re-installing Windows again, didn't work) so I formated the hard-drive and made a new clean install. It was all working like it was supposed to, until about 3 days ago when it started repeating the same thing. I wondered what did I do to piss it off again, but I couldn't think of anything that I could have done or install that would screw things up... today I put on the new nVidia drivers (40.somethingBeta, instead of 30.something), scanned the disk with norton windoctor, virus check it, I installed a RAM cleaner called Free Mem Pro, I even thought it could be my connection, but then I remembered that when it started to lock up in the first phase (before I formated) that it was locking up in single player also. The first time it was a problem I checked out my TNT2 if it was jacked up, but everything was fine with it and well when I formatted afterwards it was all going well (oh yeah and I reinstalled freespace first, thats a given).

I just don't know what to do anymore...do I have to format the thing every month or?...blah...if anyone can help me it'd be great, but this is starting to suck big time...any IDEA on what to do is also welcome because I'm fresh out...

so...PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!...if you can...

-€dit-, also, I have no mods, no tables, no NOTHING in the FreeSpace directory, this thing just wants to happen on its own -€dit-

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Was this fs1, or fs2? cause fs2 has a bug on cd2 that the act 1 cbanis don't always install right... were you running anything in the backround? cause freespace2 doesn't always like Alt-Tabs...

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Was this fs1, or fs2? cause fs2 has a bug on cd2 that the act 1 cbanis don't always install right... were you running anything in the backround? cause freespace2 doesn't always like Alt-Tabs...

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