Going to have to quit..

[Otto Von Strunf]

Originally Posted by clayp

Gentelmen I'm going to have to quit playinf SH4..I just cant get it to work right..Iam compleatly baffled and frustrated and am tired of messing around wi th it for months now. Good luck to you all....

deserter, do you thing that submarines all the time worked with no problems??? yeaah just quit sailor that is the best you can do, take the easy way baby, but remember: deserters will be shot, survivers will be shot again ant three times hanged

[clayp]

Ok men I ran it for another hour and it did not crash. I did two things,I turned the AF and AS settings on my video card in the NV control center from 16,16q to 8 and 8. Also I deleted my AVG virus...This seems to have done it,time will tell..I want to thank all of you again...THANK YOU!!!!....

[CaptainHaplo]

Glad it seems to be working - but I would keep an eye on those temps - especially if the problem re-occurs! For now - GOOD HUNTING!

[leovampire]

Originally Posted by clayp

Ok men I ran it for another hour and it did not crash. I did two things,I turned the AF and AS settings on my video card in the NV control center from 16,16q to 8 and 8. Also I deleted my AVG virus...This seems to have done it,time will tell..I want to thank all of you again...THANK YOU!!!!....

I hope it continues to work for you!

[Elder-Pirate]

Originally Posted by clayp

Ok men I ran it for another hour and it did not crash. I did two things,I turned the AF and AS settings on my video card in the NV control center from 16,16q to 8 and 8. Also I deleted my AVG virus...This seems to have done it,time will tell..I want to thank all of you again...THANK YOU!!!!....

YOU DELETED YOUR AVG ANTIVIRUS ?? Why in the world would you do a thing like that ?

Unless you are NOT turning off the Internet when you play a single SH4 game. The antivirus ( any antivirus ) when you turn off the Internet and shut off ( temporarily ) everything running in the background that is NOT necessarily to run while you play SH4 ( or any offline game ) will not interfere with the simulation.

Get a program like "enditall" ( there are others like it ) and it will do the turning off of what is not needed in order for the game to run cleaner.

Get "Enditall" here: http://www.ccs.org/Tips/Download/3Download.htm

(Enditall is the second line down on left of page at 393kb, and it is also getting scarce on the web for FREE.)

When you are through playing just reboot and everything that is supposed to be running will be running including AVG or whatever antivirus program installed.

Maybe I misunderstood you but it does sound like you play SH4 while on the Internet. Some people do not know how to shut down the Internet and others think it must be on all the time, others while they are playing a non online game JUST MUST have the email going in the background or playing while reading on subsim. Worst thing in the world to do unless you don't mind having a slow computer game and crashing all the time.

IF you meant that you did really delete your antivirus from your hard drive, you really need to reinstall or guess whats going to happen to your computer while on the Internet. You are bound to download sometime and that's when the NO-NO's sometimes arrive.

Ok rant is over I hope SH4 runs a lot smoother for you.

[clayp]

I have another anti virus program,I always have two(I'm not stupid,just dumb) someone posted here that they had a problem similar to mine with AVG..Thank you for careing enough to post tho...

[maerean_m]

As a programmer, I can tell you that it's a very bad idea to have more than one real-time antivirus scanner. They will fight to be the first to read the accessed files and put locks on those files so the application may sometimes be denied access to a file (that would never otherwise happen) and crash. Basically, the game is told by the OS that the file doesn't exist.

The probability for a game to crash because of the multiple antiviruses increases with the number of files installed by the game. Crysis installs 1800 files, SH4 installs 20000 and HL2 installs 40000. The more files are accessed, the more is likely the antiviruses will step on each others toes.

[clayp]

Originally Posted by maerean_m

As a programmer, I can tell you that it's a very bad idea to have more than one real-time antivirus scanner. They will fight to be the first to read the accessed files and put locks on those files so the application may sometimes be denied access to a file (that would never otherwise happen) and crash. Basically, the game is told by the OS that the file doesn't exist.

The probability for a game to crash because of the multiple antiviruses increases with the number of files installed by the game. Crysis installs 1800 files, SH4 installs 20000 and HL2 installs 40000. The more files are accessed, the more is likely the antiviruses will step on each others toes.

I only have one running at a time