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Hey Pisces,
I run the game at 1280x1024 as far as i can remember, i use an old style 19" screen, not a wide screen model so to speak. It hangs during a mission, at random moments. I have not noticed a crash in the game opening menu. What happens is that the pc freezes suddenly, the screen is full of little white blocks. I have to reboot, taskmanager does not respond any more. It sure looks like a video issue. Why it suddenly appeared remains a mystery, i had not changed anything on the pc before it started happening. At least, no changes that i am aware of. I am the only user of the pc. I will look at those settings in the INI file, maybe that can help me. The game has shown flickering screens during start up for years, but that never seemed to be a problem. Once the mission started, that was all gone. It ran like a charm, 1.08 edition with SCX installed. |
Another cause for that might be the use of multiple cpu cores. SC (and DW iirc) do not work well with multiple cores. In taskmanager select the SC task, and right click and choose "affinity". Then in that window select only 1 core, uncheck all the remaining cores in your cpu. Maybe that is the culprit. (boosdoener ;) )
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We hate "boosdoeners" alright :-)
I will take a look a it, thanks for the suggestion again. I checked my INI file yesterday and noticed i had the exact same settings as you. I did edit a few of the things to see if there was a change, but no. I also excluded the whole "subcommand" directory from the virusscanner, no result. I mingled around with my Nvidia driver suite as well, checked/unchecked a load of settings, no result. The story continues... (edit : i have a bad habit of starting each and every damn line with "I".) |
I just found a page that explains how you can start a program with affinity assigned to a specific core, through a command line. So if this is entered into a .bat file or shortcut then it would be easily executed (from desktop or something) and not require manual assigned affinity through taskmanager.
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/win...formance-edge/ [EDIT] T̶h̶e̶ ̶a̶b̶o̶v̶e̶ ̶l̶i̶n̶k̶ ̶s̶e̶e̶m̶s̶ ̶d̶e̶a̶d̶, but I found the important part again: (quoted in the spoiler) |
Hey Pisces,
yesterday i tried the affinity thing, selected 1 core but SC still crashed on all 3 attempts. I will take a look at your new suggestion tonight. It makes me sad for sure, i want to play again :-) i had made some serious missions. One interesting detail though.. it now crashes on a somewhat normal way, writing logs into the eventviewer. It mentions a memory adress and a code. Looking up those codes on internet (microsoft support) gave mixed results. Turns out the code is not a particular thing, MS office can give the same error. I am thinking it could even be a hardware problem in my memory modules because it suddenly appeared. Hardware problem is not a big chance, i will aim at a software solution for now still. Now since 2 days ago my windows also crashes on rightclicking anything in windows explorer, so maybe my whole windows is just ****ed up. Problems seem to come in groups lol Could do a complete reinstall of windows as well, i am that desperate. |
Ok, if the rest of your OS seems unstable then I would first sort that out.
Hardware problems can always occur. It's not really the time of year yet, but temperature issues with cooling can also cause these kind of occurrences. Make sure your fans are clean and air flow is good inside the case and near the CPU and GPU. Memory errors are easily tested with a iso image of http://www.memtest.org/ burned to cdrom. |
I will get back into SC one day. For now i have aimed my passion at SH4.
I am starting to like it, even though it is completely different. There is more to do in SH4. |
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