I’ve been playing ET for a fair old while now (5 months perhaps? Who knows…), but recently I’ve been getting this weird “control lock up” problem. Every so often, and totally random (no regular pattern that I can see), I won’t be able to control my “character”. Graphically everything is fine, the sounds are all coming through OK and nothing untoward is showing on the lagometer - I’m just stuck doing whatever I was doing before I locked up, from crouching with the mortar with the command map stuck open, to strafing sideways firing at a blank wall (leading someone to tell me: “Brevik you can’t shoot for shit” this evening - nice…).
Anyone have any ideas? the lock up can last for anything from a split second, to a couple of seconds (usually the longest is when I’m firing the mortar) - I wondered if my keyboard is playing up, but the mouse locks up too. One thing I have noticed is that when I’m using the mortar it will often fire a round after the lock up has finished - even if I hadn’t pressed anything “post lock-up” (in my annoyance I’d hammer a few buttons during lock up…).
Last night a reinstall of ET seemed to fix the problem (i.e. I reinstalled ET and it didn’t happen afterwards - could be coincidence), but I don’t really want to be reinstalling ET every time I want to play
My system
AMD Athlon 2000XP 1.67GHz
768MB Ram
80GB Hard Disk
nVidia GeForce4 MX 440
Windows XP Home Service Pack 1
512K ADSL connection
I have the 53.03 drivers for the GeForce4 - I regressed back to 45.23 (because I had them) and they were as bad if not worse. My config is pretty much non-tweaked (in fact I’m trying hard to think of anything I’ve tweaked at all).
Any help would be appreciated, I’d rather look a bit silly for having missed something obvious and get it fixed than continue getting frustrated with it. However, I’m no hardware expert so I don’t know what else you would need to know (or where I would find it for that matter).
Thanks in advance,
B
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