Yet Another Crash on Intro...

niksa · Post by **niksa** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 2:39 am

AMD Athlon 64 3400+
Win XP SP2
NVidia GeForce 6800 GT
1 GB ram
10+ gb free space

Patches: 1.2 official and 2.5 (latest I could find) community created patches applied.
DirectX 9.0c: yes, freshly re-downloaded today
Updated Nvidia drivers: yes, freshly re-downloaded today
Windows virtual memory: I let windows choose its own settings. I have it hard-set it to 3000 MB to 6000 MB before, still does not work.
Resolution: tried all of them, none work.
Screen refresh rate: 60.

Problem: It plays the intro movies for the producers and video game company, etc, but then it crashes a second after that. If I reboot, I can get in and change the resolution once, and then it will crash if I try to play a game. Then I have to reboot to get back to the game's New Game/Load Game/Options menu, otherwise it just immediately crashes vampire.exe.

I have been working on this for days. I've read so many posts about this problem, tried so many solutions... none of it is working. I have never had so many problems with trying to run a game on my system before and I've done just about all that I can think of and all of the suggestions I've found. My sister has a older computer with not even a fourth of my computer's power, and she can run the game fine.

If anyone has any ideas... I really would love to hear them. Thanks for any advice.

-Niksa.

Lucita · Post by **Lucita** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 9:19 am

Hmmm...check your Nvidia drivers, there might be an error due to a problem with the latest drivers...There are allways some issues.

Maybe some Omega Drivers can solve it.

Acleacius · Post by **Acleacius** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 9:51 am

Have you tried a uninstall and reinstall?
I am not clear can you make it to the Main Menu, but crashes once you try to start a new game?
If you can get to the Main Menu, try shutting off Enviromental Sound.
What Sound card/onboard chip do you have and what sound drivers do you use?

Does Half-Life 2 run on your machine, with your current setup?

niksa · Post by **niksa** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 11:00 am

I don't know about Half-Life 2, I've never tried it... I can run Oblivion on full settings if that's a good comparison.

I'll check into the drivers, but I did just update them only 12 hours ago. I don't know what Omega drivers are but I'll look into it.

I uninstalled/reinstalled many times, rebooted many times.

I can get to the main menu 1 time after a reboot, to change Options. After that, no matter what I selected in the main menu, vampire.exe (after the beginning movies) crashes until I reboot again.

Thanks for the replies, I'll post back if I find out anything about omega drivers..

niksa · Post by **niksa** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 12:21 pm

Oh, I have Soundblaster Live!

I did try to turn off the sound at some point..

niksa · Post by **niksa** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:01 am

Update:

Since I was due for a reformat on this system for general maintenance (I try to do it once yearly on my machines), I decided to do it a bit early and see if I could eliminate the problems with running Bloodlines.

I believe there was a windows-related conflict, and a format & full reinstall of windows completely fixed the problem. It runs very well now.

This may seem like a drastic fix to some people, but I was going to do it anyway in 2 weeks, so it was really not a problem at all.

Also - the Omega drivers are apparently no longer updated/supported by their creators as of 1 year ago so I didn't look into them. And as I found out, I didn't need them after all. But it was a good idea and thank you for it.

I just thought I'd reply and let you helpful folks know what happened and let you know that I'm happily running around as my Gangrel now.

Acleacius · Post by **Acleacius** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 9:04 am

Well congrats.

Redoing one of my drive this week, also.

Yes, Omega stopped supporting NVidia, not sure why maybe he wasn't getting any support from the NVidia crowd.

Lucita · Post by **Lucita** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 12:39 am

Ahh...okay...didn't know about the Omega Drivers for Nvidia.

Hmmm...maybe it had something to do with the Python Language Script needed for VTM. Have just built a new computer system and set up Windows anew, gotta check if VTM works for me again....

haydox · Post by **haydox** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:28 am

A little off topic but this is my advice to people like Niksa and others who tend to get problems with games over time.

Get a program like Norton Ghost, format your system, install Windows and Office and and virus scanner or other essential programs you use, then update windows FULLY, and make a ghost image of ur setup, burn this then onto a DVD or keep it in a partition hard-drive.

That way, when your PC messes up, just re-ghost C drive! You can copy all saved files etc. to another HDD, and you have a 'fresh' system to mess up in your own special way again