brand new 'puter, sh4 crashes and crashes :(

hardwir3d · 01-09-09, 12:28 PM

Hello everyone,

After lurking around this forum for almost three years and having envied lots of people here for being able to run SH4 for almost 2 years now, I finally got around to purchasing a new rig to play SH4. Finally got rid of the 512MB P4

Ofcorse, 1st thing I did after installing the OS was installing SH3 and 4. SH3-GWX runs fine (@220-250 fps), but SH4 keeps crashing and crashing

First, my system specs:
i7-920 (not overclocked... yet

)
6 GB Kingston HyperX DDR3-1600
ATI Radeon HD4870 OC 1 GB GDDR 5
Soundblaster X-fi
2xSamsung Spinpoint 700GB -> 1.4 TB RAID0

Windows Vista SP1 &

Windows XP Corp x64 SP2
ATI Catalyst 8.12
SB Drivers 2.18.0008

I have SH4 and Uboat missions installed, which patches it to V1.5... right?

Second, the problem that occurs:
In both Vista and XP x64, everything runs fine until the actual game starts. It immediately 'stutters' and everything is 'garbled up', like seeing 2 portions of the interior mixed together. Uh, this may sound a bit vague, but I've got no clue how else to describe this. The problem seems to be largely concentrated to the sub's interior. If I switch to free camera view, the game behaves much better, almost like normal (tho it still tends to crash way too often). Windows XP x64 runs the game better than Vista does (crashes 'only' after 3 minutes, instead of seconds on avg. in #$%%^ Vista. (damn. vista is a real pain in the ass. bill still manages to make things worse and worse))

I get no error code or error message or anything. It just garbles things up, stutters, hangs and crashes to desktop as soon as I move back into the interior from freecam mode. In Vista it is almost impossible to even get to freecam mode, as it tends to crash before that, in XP I usually manage to go to freecam before it crashes.

I've tried different graphic settings, different drivers, different OS's, different resolutions, it all doesn't matter, SH4 stutters, hangs, crashes, stutters, hangs, crashes.

I'm really at a loss here. *sniffles*

And I FINALLY wanna play this game so bad! I hope some subsim kaleun can save me from my misery

01-09-09, 12:28 PM	#1
hardwir3d Swabbie Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Netherlands Posts: 7 Downloads: 12 Uploads: 0	brand new 'puter, sh4 crashes and crashes :( Hello everyone, After lurking around this forum for almost three years and having envied lots of people here for being able to run SH4 for almost 2 years now, I finally got around to purchasing a new rig to play SH4. Finally got rid of the 512MB P4 Ofcorse, 1st thing I did after installing the OS was installing SH3 and 4. SH3-GWX runs fine (@220-250 fps), but SH4 keeps crashing and crashing First, my system specs: i7-920 (not overclocked... yet ) 6 GB Kingston HyperX DDR3-1600 ATI Radeon HD4870 OC 1 GB GDDR 5 Soundblaster X-fi 2xSamsung Spinpoint 700GB -> 1.4 TB RAID0 Windows Vista SP1 & Windows XP Corp x64 SP2 ATI Catalyst 8.12 SB Drivers 2.18.0008 I have SH4 and Uboat missions installed, which patches it to V1.5... right? Second, the problem that occurs: In both Vista and XP x64, everything runs fine until the actual game starts. It immediately 'stutters' and everything is 'garbled up', like seeing 2 portions of the interior mixed together. Uh, this may sound a bit vague, but I've got no clue how else to describe this. The problem seems to be largely concentrated to the sub's interior. If I switch to free camera view, the game behaves much better, almost like normal (tho it still tends to crash way too often). Windows XP x64 runs the game better than Vista does (crashes 'only' after 3 minutes, instead of seconds on avg. in #$%%^ Vista. (damn. vista is a real pain in the ass. bill still manages to make things worse and worse)) I get no error code or error message or anything. It just garbles things up, stutters, hangs and crashes to desktop as soon as I move back into the interior from freecam mode. In Vista it is almost impossible to even get to freecam mode, as it tends to crash before that, in XP I usually manage to go to freecam before it crashes. I've tried different graphic settings, different drivers, different OS's, different resolutions, it all doesn't matter, SH4 stutters, hangs, crashes, stutters, hangs, crashes. I'm really at a loss here. sniffles And I FINALLY wanna play this game so bad! I hope some subsim kaleun can save me from my misery