Random 'crashing'

ChaosBlade · Sat, 21st Jan '06, 3:54pm

It's very odd, But sometimes the game decides to go into a zombie behavior: it drops the resolution to 640x480, drops out of fullscreen, and the 640x480 portion of the screen remains black while the IWD2 task is still running, yet doing nothing.

Anyone has any suggesstions?
Geforce 2 MX here, latest nVidia drivers.
Also a MoBo with a VIA Chipset, 4in1 drivers are latest aswell.

Taluntain · Sun, 22nd Jan '06, 12:02am

Any nVidia drivers from the last couple of years have been known to cause various problems with IE games. Try finding some 2-3 year old drivers.

ChaosBlade · Thu, 26th Jan '06, 7:49pm

Lovely. nVidia at its best, heh.

Thanks for your answer & help :]

Taluntain · Fri, 27th Jan '06, 12:00am

Np, I hope it helps.

ChaosBlade · Sat, 28th Jan '06, 2:50pm

Well, I Tried every major revision from 70.xx down to 30.xx, And its still crash happy as hell (Im doing the chapter 1 raid the orc fortress quest now), So i think i'll try one more revision (29.xx or 28.xx) and then just give up and go back to the latest ones. It's kinda odd, the one i have now (32.xx) is from 08/2002, around when IWD2 was released. It was crash happy even when released?

And im guessing no one tried to do some 3rd party patch in order to avoid such issues?

Taluntain · Sun, 29th Jan '06, 1:30am

Actually, it's more likely that this problem is related to something else than your graphics card. The game doesn't crash normally.

ChaosBlade · Thu, 2nd Feb '06, 8:02pm

Probably. I'll try upgrading the rest of the drivers (im a bit behind on the RealTEK drivers) and try again. It doesnt exactly crash, it sorta drops out of fullscreen back to a 640x480 blackscreen window, and the process stops responding anymore.

Im getting a new card in a few months anyway, Perheps its a specific problem with mine, maybe not. (geforce2mx -> 6600GT)

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Sat, 21st Jan '06, 3:54pm	#1
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Thu, 26th Jan '06, 7:49pm	#3
ChaosBlade Gems: 1/31 Latest gem: Turquoise Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Israel Posts: 11 Like: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts vBActivity - Stats XP: 300 Level: 6 vBActivity - Bars Level Completion: 35.19% Daily Activity 2.28% Weekly Activity 1.95% Monthly Activity 1.32% Achievements	Lovely. nVidia at its best, heh. Thanks for your answer & help :]

Sat, 28th Jan '06, 2:50pm	#5
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Thu, 2nd Feb '06, 8:02pm	#7
ChaosBlade Gems: 1/31 Latest gem: Turquoise Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Israel Posts: 11 Like: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts vBActivity - Stats XP: 300 Level: 6 vBActivity - Bars Level Completion: 35.19% Daily Activity 2.28% Weekly Activity 1.95% Monthly Activity 1.32% Achievements	Probably. I'll try upgrading the rest of the drivers (im a bit behind on the RealTEK drivers) and try again. It doesnt exactly crash, it sorta drops out of fullscreen back to a 640x480 blackscreen window, and the process stops responding anymore. Im getting a new card in a few months anyway, Perheps its a specific problem with mine, maybe not. (geforce2mx -> 6600GT)