ET Crashing - Very Annoying Problem - Can Anyone Please Help

(thewhitedragon) #1

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i can connect to any sever without Any problems but about 1-20 mins into the game ET crashes - it has been working fine for months without this problem - now after i wiped my machine i always seem to crash about 20 mins into a game its infurating only being able to play in 1 map before i crash & have to restart ET, has anyone else come up with a problem like this & any idea how to solve it

this is the message i get :angry:

Application Error -
the instruction at “0x0947e32b” referanced memory at “0x000005a0”. the memory could not b written

im running Win 2000
with All service packs on

any idea what could b screwing the game up ? and how to fix it ?
:angry:

(Sauron|EFG) #2

What’s different after you reinstalled?
Did you remember to install motherboard/chipset drivers?
Have you tried different GFX drivers? (The newest ones are not necessarily the best for your system.)

Look at this thread for some good suggestions.

(thewhitedragon) #3

nothing was diffrent on the install other than not having as much crap on my system as i had,
yes original MB drivers installed and same with graphics drivers tried updating to present drivers but no success

(Craven) #4

I had the same problem, it turned out to be a specific sound pack. I believe it was the Band of Brothers sound pack.

(nUllSkillZ) #5

Have you overclocked your PC?
May be it’s a heat problem.

(_IRON_MAN_) #6

More likely to be an overheating video card than an overheating CPU. Many people never clean the small fan on their video card. Perhaps also your case does not have adequate airflow. Take a look at it and see if it’s filthy or not. Also, if a game is almost too much for a particular video card, it will slowly heat up untill it causes the game to crash or system to lock up. This is more common with video cards that have low vid memory is low - 32-64 mb. Check the BIOS and make sure that your Gaphics Apeture is set to 1/2 the amount of RAM in the machine. Itmay be set to at 64mb, which is default for most BIOS’s. This may not be the case, but it might be for all I know with what little info you have provided. Which video card are you using?

The following BIOS settings will provide optimal performance for most video cards.

Assign IRQ for VGA: Enable
PnP O/S Installed: Enable
VGA Pallet Snooping: Disable
PCI Bursting: Disable
PCI Latency Timer: 128
Video BIOS Shadowing:Disable
Video BIOS Cacheable: Disable
Video RAM Shadowing: Disable
Video RAM Cacheable: Disable
USWC Options: Disable (or set to UC)
Pipeline Cache Write: Disable
PCI 2.1 Compliancy: Enable
Passive Release: Enable
Delayed Transaction: Enable
VGA Boot Sequence: AGP or PCI (Based on the installed card)
AGP/Graphics Aperture Size: ½ the amount of installed system memory
AGP Turbo Read Mode:Disable
AGP Turbo Write Mode:Disable
AGP WS Write: Highest Possible Value
AGP WS Read: Highest Possible Value
AGP Transfer Mode: 4x (or the highest setting available)
AGP Clock:2/3
AGP Aperture: ½ the installed RAM (Example: 256 RAM – Set Aperture to 128)
Video BIOS Shadow: Disabled
Video BIOS Cacheable: Disabled
Video RAM Cacheable: Disabled
C8000-xxxxx-Cacheable: Disabled
Peer Concurrency: Enabled