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Thread: I *may* not last too much longer...

DarthRoe
Tue Jan 11, 2005 11:24 am
#14
I'm on a GeForce and I haven't had any CTDs, if that further narrows it down for you.

I am, however, pretty damn sick of the interface lag in dragging inventory items into the factory. It takes me a good 15 minutes to set up a run of Adv. Droid Brains.



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Imaladris
Tue Jan 11, 2005 12:04 pm
#15
CTD? what does that mean? Either I've heard it b4 and forgot due to age, or ... well there is no or... I just plain don't know!



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Obo_alCan
Tue Jan 11, 2005 12:10 pm
#16
Crash to Desktop.

The only CTD's I've had were with changing a sign name. Have an ATI .




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TheRealTK421
Tue Jan 11, 2005 12:33 pm
#17




TheOrb wrote:


It has been a couple of months, but I think I used Memtest86.

http://www.memtest86.com/


Might be worth a shot just to double check it before you try anything major like a re-install.



I grabbed this and will run it tonight while I snooze.



/bow

Respectfully,






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Reaperss
Fri Jan 14, 2005 3:51 pm
#18
I had an ATI AIW9700PRO, XP2800, 512mb. Had major lag but no constant CTD's


I know have ATI X800Pro, FX-55, 1gb ram. No lag, no CTD's.


Do you have anything running in the backround while playing SWG?



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TheRealTK421
Fri Jan 14, 2005 4:24 pm
#19




Reaperss wrote:


I had an ATI AIW9700PRO, XP2800, 512mb. Had major lag but no constant CTD's


I know have ATI X800Pro, FX-55, 1gb ram. No lag, no CTD's.


I'm: 9800 Pro (latest drivers), XP1800+, 1.5GB RAM, SWG on D:


Do you have anything running in the backround while playing SWG?


Applications? No. Maybe IE and that's about it.




After reading about on the forums, I'm pretty confident that this is (in part) an SOE / SWG issue, not an issue with my PC. Too many people are exhibiting this exact behavior (or something close) for it to just be my box.


/bow

Respectfully,






TheRealTK421 a.k.a. "Doughbacca"
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"I think all right-thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary, decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. ...I'm certainly not. And I'm sick and tired of being told that I am."


Boromiere
Sat Jan 15, 2005 12:22 pm
#20
Take this as you will...but it worked for me. I will outline exactly what happened/when it started happening, and what I did. It hasn't happened since.


About2.5 months ago I bought 512 more RAM for my PC, until then I never had a problem with CTD. After installing the new RAM and launching SWG it would get all the way to the load screen, then CTD even before I loaded completely. On rare occassions I actually loaded, then I took one step, then crashed.


After a few days of this I decided to load the game on my (crappy) laptop. At least this way I could pay maintenance on harvesters and craft. I used the same game code on my laptop as my PC since I only have one copy of the game.


After about an hour or so of playing on my laptop, I thought I would give my PC another chance (not even thinking that I would be trying to run two versions of the same game/serial number at once). Low and behold my laptop instance of the game went down, but my PC version came up and has been running fine ever since


I uninstalled the game from my (worthless) laptop and have been playing on my PC just fine for the past2 months.


If you're wondering why an Architect is posting here...it's because I am a former DE and still like to troll this forum. I would also hate to see TK leave, his advice and posts taught me a lot about the DE profession.


So, if you have a second PC/laptop give this a try, or try it on a friends PC. You have nothing to loose except the aggrevation of the CTD's.


Hope this helps


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TheRealTK421
Sun Jan 16, 2005 12:01 pm
#21



Well...I'm beginning to suspect some RAM issues or something buggy in the latest ATI drivers in relation to my mobos BIOS (or with my setup in general).


When not in SWG, I now get an intermittentcrash that appears hardware/driver/RAM related. Unfortunately, it's sufficiently generic as to not point to a specific problem or hardware device.


Source: System Error

Event Viewer: Category (102), Event ID 1003


Error code 1000008e, parameter1 c0000005, parameter2 004dc6f2, parameter3 aedc0c04, parameter4 00000000.


NOTE:

Error code 1000008e = "KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED_M"

This indicates that a kernel-mode program generated an exception which the error handler did not catch.

Most of newsgroup comments about this error point to faulty hardware or drivers. The hardware varies from modems, video cards, USB device to memory or sound cards. Sometimes it proves to be hardware that it is not compatible with Windows XP.


My next step (/sigh): Run MemTest86 and see what it reports....or....perform a "Repair" install of WinXP.


/bow

Respectfully,

Message Edited by TheRealTK421 on 01-16-2005 11:06 AM



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Straker_Atrella
Sun Jan 16, 2005 5:20 pm
#22
I don't know TK, if you are having problems outside the game, that is one thing. As far as crashing in the game goes, I think that is a SWG problem. It happens to a lot of people, I mean a lot. Something recent messed something up. The problem is it is so random, it is hard to track down.



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TheRealTK421
Mon Jan 17, 2005 7:34 am
#23




Straker_Atrella wrote:


I don't know TK, if you are having problems outside the game, that is one thing. As far as crashing in the game goes, I think that is a SWG problem. It happens to a lot of people, I mean a lot. Something recent messed something up. The problem is it is so random, it is hard to track down.



Actually...now that I think about it...

The error above was generated while I had the Launchpad open and was hanging out in the chatroom. So, I suppose it might still be SWG-related.


When I don't run anything SWG-related................I never crash (unless I'm testing software in development for my job).


/bow

Respectfully,






TheRealTK421 a.k.a. "Doughbacca"
SWG DE Correspondent
Co-Founding member of Ahazi DENet & SWG DEA (Droid Engineer Association)
"I think all right-thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary, decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. ...I'm certainly not. And I'm sick and tired of being told that I am."


Reaperss
Mon Jan 17, 2005 9:51 am
#24
exactly what ati drivers are you running?



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TheRealTK421
Mon Jan 17, 2005 10:03 am
#25
6497 (the latest, if I'm not mistaken)...



/bow

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SWG DE Correspondent
Co-Founding member of Ahazi DENet & SWG DEA (Droid Engineer Association)
"I think all right-thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary, decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. ...I'm certainly not. And I'm sick and tired of being told that I am."


V1G0
Mon Jan 17, 2005 10:03 pm
#26
I'm almost positive that it is not the video card.

I have the same one and the same driver and i havent had a single CTD.



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