Game freezes like a lollipop

rexychapman · 09-19-07, 08:03 PM

Well.......

I gave up and installed XP Pro on the system. Spent the whole day installing updates and all that fun stuff that comes with it.
Installed latest ATI video driver, but game did not load, said "Can not initialize 3d engine"

So I went to a previous driver, which worked.
But.......

I'm back to the same old problem of the game not running during anything but Submarine School.

The thought I'm having is if it has anyting to do with my game being in a seperate hard drive from my XP drive. It's even on a IDE controller card.

I'm gonna try disabling Sound Card and other stuff...then...
I'll put the drive onto a different controller and see if that works.

Question: Anyone else have problems with game installed on seperate drive/partition than system?

SteamWake · 09-20-07, 09:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rexychapman

Question: Anyone else have problems with game installed on seperate drive/partition than system?

Dunno never tried, that probably has something to do with it.

switch.dota · 09-20-07, 09:37 AM

I never install anything on my system partition (other than system-related utilities). If there was any problem derived from that, I would've noticed by now.

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09-19-07, 08:03 PM	#1
rexychapman Nub Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 3 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 0	Well....... I gave up and installed XP Pro on the system. Spent the whole day installing updates and all that fun stuff that comes with it. Installed latest ATI video driver, but game did not load, said "Can not initialize 3d engine" So I went to a previous driver, which worked. But....... I'm back to the same old problem of the game not running during anything but Submarine School. The thought I'm having is if it has anyting to do with my game being in a seperate hard drive from my XP drive. It's even on a IDE controller card. I'm gonna try disabling Sound Card and other stuff...then... I'll put the drive onto a different controller and see if that works. Question: Anyone else have problems with game installed on seperate drive/partition than system?

09-20-07, 09:37 AM	#3
switch.dota Captain Join Date: May 2007 Location: Romania Posts: 492 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I never install anything on my system partition (other than system-related utilities). If there was any problem derived from that, I would've noticed by now.