Going to have to quit..

[clayp]

Originally Posted by leovampire

When I set you up with the fire and oil slik textures for both the TLowRes and the TNormal file's it solved all of the boxy fire effect's is that correct?!

I have 2 new guy's with the problem so I wanted to make sure.

Also if you would like I can try and do for you what I did for Donut. He sent me his phone number and I called him and walked him through the problems he was having to get him up and running.

It is totaly up to you of course.

Dave

Leo those files did indeed fix the flames....

[leovampire]

Now if they say it didn't work I am going to send them your way! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Thanks Clayp!

[clayp]

No one knows a screenshot program I can get??????

[capt_frank]

Look at post #60, I just downloaded it myself...

[Hillsy_]

I haven't read all the posts here, but I remember when I had a similiar problem. I remember, I overclocked my graphics card for Far Cry and had texture problems, corrupted graphics, game freezes, black floors, green sky...basically instability. Without overclocking Far Cry it ran fine. Silent Hunter IV is a resource hog. I would cut the resolution down to 1024 x 768 as suggested previously and NOT to overlock your graphics card for this game.

it can't hurt to try it, right?

Hope you get it working.

[clayp]

Originally Posted by Hillsy_

I haven't read all the posts here, but I remember when I had a similiar problem. I remember, I overclocked my graphics card for Far Cry and had texture problems, corrupted graphics, game freezes, black floors, green sky...basically instability. Without overclocking Far Cry it ran fine. Silent Hunter IV is a resource hog. I would cut the resolution down to 1024 x 768 as suggested previously and NOT to overlock your graphics card for this game.

it can't hurt to try it, right?

Hope you get it working.

Card has never been overclocked...

[clayp]

It may be fixed,I played for an hour and it did not crash..Have to go to the doctor will test more later before I can say it's ok...

[jazman]

So if it's working now, what changed? Don't say, "nothing" because all sys admins know that line.

[Elder-Pirate]

If that "SMART status" is showing what the computer is drawing at that moment ( when pic taken ) then I'd say the GPU1 @ 74c is running way to hot. maybe 40 or 45c would be right because the card really has nothing to do for this screen.

But then again the "SMART status" does say "Healthy" :hmm:

So what did you do to it clayp? Comon, fess up.

[leovampire]

But it might help other in the future that are having problems or new one's that come up.

So when you get a chance share your fix to help others that come down the line.

Then you can make your wheel chair happy man hold a wrench and have him fixing something.

[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.