ET Freezes up but still plays with mouse only

(yzerman19) #1

I am having a problem that I HAVENT seen talked about elsewhere…I can play ET but usually a few miutes into a game, my keyboard freezes so all I can do is play with the mouse…i cant move anywhere but I can still shoot at enemies, and even when I respawn I can’t move so my only choice is to kill self by using rotation wheel on mouse to select a grenade and blow myself up…which gets old quickly…I cant escape out of the game and have to reboot by pushing the power button…keyboard just dies on me.

my specs:
Dell
p4(b) 2.8 ghz
640 ram
geforce mx440

This is so frustrating…please help me
I read about the Punkbuster problem and thought maybe that was it but to no avail. I turned off norton and that didnt help. ???[/list]

([=O=]SMYLER) #2

I hope thats norton firewall you’re talking about (although you should NEVER drop your firewall) and not antivirus 'cos if people are complaining elsewhere about low fps and crappy “pings” and they have antivirus running in the background on their P3 600s they need their heads examining.

They probably do as well, in my time as an engineer I’ve seen friggin’ everything from the plugging in of the “it’s broke and it’s under warranty so you get out here NOW and fix it” to explaining that a cd goes in picture side up, now press the button, “which one ?”, “the one on the cd player sir”, “it’s gone, IT’S GONE WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY CD IT’S GONE !!!” I don’t hate computers it’s the pricks who buy them. :angry: :bash: :???:

I’m glad I got that out. :drink: :banana:

OH yeah with regard your problem, uninstall, reboot and reinstall, see what happens.

(yzerman19) #3

no not norton fw…i had read that NAV somehow had probs with PB…but I think its bs

funny though…there are some lame sobs out there…lol

glad u got that out too!

([=O=]SMYLER) #4

Do the reinstall thing, also has this always been the case with ET from the very beginning or has something changed/ been installed etc ?

(yzerman19) #5

onoly hope i guess

([=O=]SMYLER) #6

wellllllllllllllllllll ???

(menikmati) #7

hows your keyboard and mouse plugged in? ps/2 usb?

i had a usb port that kept losing power once…that was my similar problem :_)