SI locks up - please help!

[katzeyez]

Hi all,

First my setup :-

Win98
1800 Athlon XP
256Mb Ram
Geforce 3 Ti 4200 (using latest drivers - march 03 and not overclocked)
Creative Labs PCI128 soundcard (yes, i know i need a new one!)
HD defragged and scanned - no errors.
Onboard sound/graphics disabled.
And the killer...DX9.0a (needed it cause I am in the EVE beta!)

The problem - random lockups, and I really do mean random. Sometimes the game is stable for as long as I am playing. However, on days like today it just does not want to play and locks every 15-60 mins. Screen freezes, sound stops (does not loop), cursor moves but the only thing to do at this point is a hard reset (ctrl/alt/del does not work).

The problem is upgrading to 1.60, upgrading the graphics card drivers and going to DX9.0a all happened within a few days.

So does anyone have a similar config running without any issues or has anyone had anything like this and managed to fix it? I REALLY do not want to reinstall just to go back to DX8.x without knowing if this is the problem.

Many thanks in advance for any suggestions/ideas. Here's hoping!

 

[Gabrial]

Some people mentioned problems with the latest NVIDIA drivers - try rolling back one version?

 

[Addlcove]

throw away DX9 til it´s out of beta?

daoc don´t need dx9

 

[old.TeaSpoon]

Originally posted by Addlcove
throw away DX9 til it´s out of beta?

daoc don´t need dx9

That said, I couldn't get past the conection screen without installing DX9.

Try installing DX8 I suppose. and as Gabrial said, try an older version of your NVIDA drivers

 

[Addlcove]

wauv TS a non /pharm post .... I´m impressed

never had any trouble with daoc after I uninstalled Zonealarm

(got a firewall in the router instead )

 

[katzeyez]

Addlcove : I also use Zonealarm (the free version). Weird how after 1.60 every time I log in ZA says something has changed and asked for reauthorization (no virus ) Never had this in any previous issues. Were your problems anything like what I am having when you were using it?

As to throwing away DX9, really, really do not want to reinstall and still undecided about whether I like EVE therefore am very happy not to pay for it atm.

If others are having issues with the ;atest drivers I may try rolling them back...easier than the reinstall and cheaper than trying to find a new FW.

Thanks for the help all.