Game is suffering majo slowdaon and crashing...help?

Bloodstalker · Post by **Bloodstalker** » Sat Nov 16, 2002 8:19 pm

Ok, Here's whats going one. I installed the game...so far, so good. I run it, the intro movies and all runs perfectly. Then, I got to the main menu. Once I click on anything in there, I was having major problems. The mouse just hung, it moved, but there is like a 10 second delay, and it's not smooth, I move the mouse, and about 10 secongs later, it shows up wherever it was supposed to.

Fooling around with the settings, I knocked the color back down to 16 instead of 32. Now, I am fine until I get to the form party option. At that screen it does the same thing. Anyidea whats causing it?

My system is as follows

Pentuim 1 gig processor
384 Ram
Windows XP Pro
Hercules Prophet 4500 64 M video card.

Does anyone run this goame on XP? I am thinking it's either that, or possibly my graphics card. I notice when I open Task Manager, it's got my CPU at 100%. I got nothing running in the background.

Also, it randomly re-boots my machine. Sometimes as soon as I try to run it, sometimes when I try to close it out.

It has 1.2 patch. I tried DL'ing the latest patch, but the servers were busy. Besides, I wanted to see if anyone knew whether it was XP or Graphics related first.

Any help is appreciated

Demis · Post by **Demis** » Sun Nov 17, 2002 1:37 am

I am pretty sure that it is a windows XP compatibility problem. I have heard of this before. Check this thread @BS. Hope it helps.

Bloodstalker · Post by **Bloodstalker** » Sun Nov 17, 2002 1:07 pm

Thanks Demis. I checked it out. No XP support. well, thats something

I'll see if I can play with it eniugh to get it to run.

Demis · Post by **Demis** » Sun Nov 17, 2002 1:17 pm

No Problem BS

, IIRC you can find a few custom solutions over at the technical forum of Ubi Soft that make the game at least playable on XP. Did you had any luck downloading v1.4 patch?

Bloodstalker · Post by **Bloodstalker** » Sun Nov 17, 2002 5:18 pm

I just got it DL and installed. Haven't tried it out yet. I also went and got updated drivers for my graphics card.....can't hurt anyway

Demis · Post by **Demis** » Sun Nov 17, 2002 7:03 pm

Well it might even fix the problems, you never know. Good luck with it.

raphjd · Post by **raphjd** » Sat Nov 30, 2002 3:06 pm

One of the things I found to be a MAJOR help, was to save then shut down the game after a time to clear out my protected recycling bin (many A/V software companies use this). When it hits 1,500 files or so, the game gets choppy and this seems to solve that.

There are a few spots where XP doesn't do so well in the game. Check out my post from before. That's a big one there.

Bloodstalker · Post by **Bloodstalker** » Wed Dec 04, 2002 11:43 pm

Well, thanks for the help.

But, it just ain't gonna work seems like

I have updated all my drivers, followed the suggestions on the official board, and still...no luck. I just can't get past the create party mode.