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  • Maxor127
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    • Oct 2006
    • 314

    #1

    Random lockups

    I just helped my brother build his computer. It's an Athlon 64 3500 w/ 2x 512 MB Corsair PC3200 RAM, Connect32 Radeon X800, Chaintech VNF4-Ultra motherboard. Anyways, after spending the night installing the software and updating the drivers (using Omega drivers for video card), I installed BF2 today, downloaded the latest patch and loaded up the game. At first, I maxed out all of the graphic settings and set the resolution to 1024 x 768. After playing a single player map for a couple minutes the game completely locked up and I couldn't quit out of it or get to desktop or anything, so I hit the reset button and tried again. I lowered the graphic settings but it still locked up. So I tried doing some optimizations and tried again. This time it froze while optimizing the graphics during load. So that's 3 crashes in a row. On my fourth try, I managed to play a couple maps with no problems. Then I tried loading a multiplayer game and it froze during loading. So now I'm wondering if it's the game or if it's the computer. I never had a problem running BF2 on my computer. I may have froze once or twice out of 200 hours of play.

    I installed Far Cry and played that a little bit to see if I had any problems and it seemed to run fine. Anyone have any ideas what the problem is and how I can fix it? I'd at least like to know that it's the game and not the computer.
  • phen0m

    #2
    Re: Random lockups

    Yup Been random posts about this, it is definitely the new patch. I love SF, but it ruins all the fun and seems to happen ever other map for me. Reboot and keep playing and do so over and over. I tell you I highly doubt EA tests their products before releasing them.

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    • Maxor127
      Member
      • Oct 2006
      • 314

      #3
      Re: Random lockups

      I don't know. I'm worrying that it's the computer. I ran Stress Prime 2004, left and came back and noticed the system locked up at 1 minute 32 seconds. I ran Prime95 for about 15 minutes with no lockups, but I did notice the CPU temperature went from 36 degrees to 42 degrees. I ran Prime95 on my computer and the CPU temperature didn't seem to increase more than a degree.

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      • NoSoup4You

        #4
        Re: Random lockups

        the 512 RAM is a killer. You need to down your graphics settings.

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        • jdogg88-Fed

          #5
          Re: Random lockups

          Originally posted by KingOfKhaos
          the 512 RAM is a killer. You need to down your graphics settings.
          lol think thats bad my ram says its 500 instead of 512 cause god i really want some new RAM but i dont know what to get

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          • Maxor127
            Member
            • Oct 2006
            • 314

            #6
            Re: Random lockups

            It's not 512... it's 512x2... 1 GB... it's playing fine today... i don't know what's up with it

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