Alright guys, I’m finally breaking down and asking for help. I can’t get the game to stop crashing on me. I’m running with a Geforce 4 mx 440 video card, and from what I’ve read, nividia drivers don’t run well with ET.
So at first I downgraded to an older driver, still had the occational problem. Then I upgraded to the Omega Nvidia driver. That was working great for a while. I could play for a couple hours without it crashing, if it crashed at all.
Yesterday my ISP was down so I figured it would be a good time to clean out the pc. I went into “add or remove programs” and found that some of the other drivers I’d used weren’t completely uninstalled. So I unintstalled them and reinstalled the Omega driver.
Now I’m back to crashing after about 5 to 10 min. of game play.
Can someone please help Me?
Why is ET still crashing on me.
Remove every driver you have atm. Remove ET (shrug, just to be safe and reset configs easier) then reboot. Wait for def drivers to be used, install newest ones (check latest DX (9.2b i think)) and reboot. Adjust settings in your props and if its nVidias go into the Advance options and nVidia tab and sort out your settings there… theres a tool for configuring how the card performs in certain games and presets are included.
I think I fixed the problem. I took the battery out of the motherboard to reset it. I did it to fix another problem but it fixed this too. so if anybody out there is having the problem of random crashes and nothing fixes it, give it a try.
u should never install new drivers without uninstalling the ones before, and uninstalling the ones before doesnt mean just deleting the device from devicemanager.
Taking the battery out the motherboard to stop ET from crashing?? WHAT?
Hmm, well if reinstalling XP doesn’t work for me then I guess I’ll end up trying the battery thing… BTW on most boards you’re supposed to move the jumper for a few seconds to wipe the memory before replacing the battery
no, that resets the chip without needing to remove the battery, some boards do not have that tho.
I’m just going by what the manual says. All 3 of my comps use the same method of remove battery, move the jumper, replace battery. Perhaps it’s just Asus boards then.