I don't know what it is, but this game absolutely hates me. The first two days I had the game I only crashed maybe once or twice. In the last couple days, I've probably crashed 40 times. I get maybe 5-10 minutes of gameplay before I crash.
Sometimes I've got symptoms of a gigantic memory leak where my game slows down and then crashes a minute or two later. Sometimes everything is running great and next thing I know I'm at my desktop. I've had two instances where my computer has gone and rebooted because I've crashed so hard. I've also had several cases where the game just freezes so I ctrl+alt+del and kill the bf2142.exe service. It's unbelievable how much I've crashed. Sometimes my game doesn't completely crash, I'll just lose all my textures and stare at a mostly black screen. I've played 550 hours of BF2 since the week it was released and have not crashed this many times.
I've even tried turning my sound from hardware rendered to software rendered. I've made sure I've got the lastest video and sound drivers and it's still no help. This game is borderline unplayable 75% of the time. The other 25% of the time I think I just don't play for long enough spans to have the game crash. At this point, I'm beginning to wonder if some of my hardware is dying but my spider sense tells me that may not be the case.
Any ideas?
and FYI, my rig is:
Asus P4P800-E Deluxe MotherBoard
Intel 3.0GHz P4 w/800MHz FSB
2GB Kingston PC3200 DDR Ram
160GB Hitachi Deskstar HDD
ATI X800Pro Video
Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS Platnium Sound
+ Various other components...
Sometimes I've got symptoms of a gigantic memory leak where my game slows down and then crashes a minute or two later. Sometimes everything is running great and next thing I know I'm at my desktop. I've had two instances where my computer has gone and rebooted because I've crashed so hard. I've also had several cases where the game just freezes so I ctrl+alt+del and kill the bf2142.exe service. It's unbelievable how much I've crashed. Sometimes my game doesn't completely crash, I'll just lose all my textures and stare at a mostly black screen. I've played 550 hours of BF2 since the week it was released and have not crashed this many times.
I've even tried turning my sound from hardware rendered to software rendered. I've made sure I've got the lastest video and sound drivers and it's still no help. This game is borderline unplayable 75% of the time. The other 25% of the time I think I just don't play for long enough spans to have the game crash. At this point, I'm beginning to wonder if some of my hardware is dying but my spider sense tells me that may not be the case.
Any ideas?
and FYI, my rig is:
Asus P4P800-E Deluxe MotherBoard
Intel 3.0GHz P4 w/800MHz FSB
2GB Kingston PC3200 DDR Ram
160GB Hitachi Deskstar HDD
ATI X800Pro Video
Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS Platnium Sound
+ Various other components...
Last edited by El-Gorko (2006-10-29 22:42:39)