Anyone have any bug so far?

Tackon D'wall · Post by **Tackon D'wall** » Mon Apr 22, 2002 1:27 am

Ok, I just got the game the other day and since it's the weekend I know I have to wait till Monday to see if I can get this fixed but I was curious if anyone else had problems as well?

It may be my registry and not the game I'll admit that in a sec but ALOT of different things have been happening to me. The most common thing it does is boot me to desktop but at that point it's in the resolution the game was running in with no taskbar. Then when I try to change my resolution back in properties I get a black screen and have to manually reboot. Another VERY common thing is lockups but it's scattered and I can't target it to one action. Heck, it even locked me once when I was on the main menu screen and about ready to load my game.

I thought at first it was a corrupted install so I uninstalled it and then reinstalled it but that wasn't the problem. It happens randomly though, sometimes I can get an hour in and other times not even 5 minutes. I have also messed with the audio and video settings changing them one function at a time but it's not anything in there.

I'm really not asking for help just curious if anyone is having problems like I am? I'm not complaining about the game either cause it's AWESOME I just wish I could get in a whole night of playing without having to manually reboot my comp at least 3 times.

Pray for me

howldog · Post by **howldog** » Mon Apr 22, 2002 12:33 pm

i get "exception generated" errors pretty frequently. frequently enough so that i pretty much am in the habit of saving the game after almost every little battle.

I cant figure out what causes the hang up... I disable almost everything else running on the machine when i play. All I can figure out is it happens when there are a lot of bad guys that make sounds. When they all start yelling, it seems like maybe it's too much for my poor old system... dont know.

i'm running windows ME

Tackon D'wall · Post by **Tackon D'wall** » Tue Apr 23, 2002 6:03 pm

I called Microsoft yesterday and solved the problem for me.
If you have an AMD Athelon then goto

http://www.viaarena.com

and when you get to the website click on the drivers tab then on the upper right side of u're screen u'll see via 4 in 1 driver 4.38.
Download that and all u're problems should be solved. When I called Microsoft and talked to George it took a LONG time to figure out what the problem was.

The coolest thing was that he came up with the first thing to do within 5 minutes. Then he said try that and that he'd call me back in like an hour. That didn't work but it was GREAT that the first time was the only time I called him and had to pay. He called me 3 times after that and finally by the next morning we had it running.

I must say that Microsoft was GREAT about customer service. I didn't get put on hold forever and after like the first 1/2 hour of telling him my whole setup and having him research other cases that were similar I was done with having to call them. He called me from there on and also gave me an address to send them my bill and they may even pay for my 1st call to them. Now, that's GREAT customer service if I've ever seen it.

I LUV microsoft!!!! Always have and always will. They make GREAT products and stay by them 100%. Everyone complains about them taking over the computer market but I way I see it how's that a BAD thing?

howldog · Post by **howldog** » Wed Apr 24, 2002 7:06 am

kewl! yeah I have the AMD. I wondered if they would make a patch or a driver. this will be helpful because last night it crashed about every minute. I'm at the point where three of my characters can summon creatures, that makes a party of about 10 or 11, plus all the monsters.. thats a lot of activity.

thanks for the ip.

Tackon D'wall · Post by **Tackon D'wall** » Wed Apr 24, 2002 11:49 pm

I have also run into another reason that I get booted... my cable modem package. It doesn't crash even close to as often as it did but now to play with 0 problems I also have to setup like this:

1) goto start menu
2) select run
3) type msconfig
4) uncheck the bottom 3 thing...
a) load static VxDs
b) load startup group items
c) load environment variables
5) click apply
6) click ok

Now after doing all this u're comp will have to reboot and you will have no internet access so don't get freaked out it's normal.

What the static VxDs does is that u're cable modem provider has no access to u're system like they normally do which is what I think sometimes makes you freeze.

What the startup group items does is that when you boot u're system it auto loads certain programs that you have on u're comp... like ICQ, firewalls, anti-virus, all that type of stuff. Also if you wish to take some dumb programs outta u're startup then just move the tab over to startup and uncheck what you don't want in u're startup.

This is NICE also cause when u're playing single player games and don't wanna mess with internet garbage and ALOT of startup programs that cause games to run slow or not at all, all you have to do is bring up MSCONFIG in u're run and when it pops up use selective startup and uncheck all that garbage. Then when u're done playing for the night use MSCONFIG and when it pops up choose normal boot and after the comp reboots u'll have everything back in use

GREAT system to use when u're a gamer such as myself and HATE when games crash or operate so SLOW it's not even worth u're time

Well, sorry to take up everyone's time and GREAT gaming to you all

Pray for me

howldog · Post by **howldog** » Thu Apr 25, 2002 7:04 am

I downloaded and installed the VIA driver you mentioned and it didnt help at all. In fact, all it did for me, was make "save game" and "load game" take about ten times as long.

I can play fairly well without the "generating exception" error if I dont use the summoned creatures..... I get too much activity going on, it seems, and something locks up. this blows. I should have known better than to buy a brand new version 1 game from a brand new company.

I'm enjoying the game, its a lot of fun to play, but this constant crashing is pissing me off. All I wanna do now, is finish the thing, and be done with it. I've never had a game lock up so much. Ridiculous.

Tackon D'wall · Post by **Tackon D'wall** » Thu Apr 25, 2002 8:20 pm

Actually, it must be something with u're system setup then cause mine locked on me alot even in the beginning of the game but after it all got worked out it's good now. Of course I'm soloing cause I read about the not so great AI and characters doing nothing so I went solo to enjoy the game more. Now it's just me and my pet and I'm not having much problems.

It sounds to me like it's either u're video card not being able to handle it or to many sounds for u're soundcard, but that's just my guess.

Overall, I like this game ALOT... definately the best hack and slash game I've ever seen.

Pray for me

Arcadia · Post by **Arcadia** » Fri Apr 26, 2002 4:03 am

for me the 4in1 via software cause the game 3d graphic to gitter.
i had to re-install the miscrosft drive for the agp to cpu bridge - after that, the game worked like a charm.

howldog · Post by **howldog** » Fri Apr 26, 2002 7:38 am

what in the heck is the bridge to agp drive thing you mentioned?
I might try that.. the VIA 4 thing had no real effect.

It possibly is my system, HOWEVER my system runs another 3D game, Rune, like a charm, and runs all kindsa other games equally well. Dungeon Siege is the only game I've ever run, in fact, that locks up.

The game plays well if I dont use more than one summoned character. I suppose having three summoned characters, and a full party, and lots of monsters all screaming, it possibly is locking up my sound card...

the problem is, i ilike the summoned characters. haha! oh well. Like I said, this is all too much trouble, I'm just gonna finish the thing and be done with it. I do like the game.

Last thing I went thru, was the moving platform area down in the goblin mine, where you ride a sliding platform to an area filled with tanks and goblins and all hell breaking loose. that was, to me, the most difficult thing so far. the game locked up REPEATEDLY. I had to completely rethink my attack, just in order to prevent the game from locking. thats just ridiculous.

Nozomi · Post by **Nozomi** » Wed May 01, 2002 10:57 pm

Originally posted by howldog
I downloaded and installed the VIA driver you mentioned and it didnt help at all. In fact, all it did for me, was make "save game" and "load game" take about ten times as long.

I can play fairly well without the "generating exception" error if I dont use the summoned creatures..... I get too much activity going on, it seems, and something locks up. this blows. I should have known better than to buy a brand new version 1 game from a brand new company.

I'm enjoying the game, its a lot of fun to play, but this constant crashing is pissing me off. All I wanna do now, is finish the thing, and be done with it. I've never had a game lock up so much. Ridiculous.

I encountered "Blue Screen of Death" after 10 minutes I start playing the game under Windows XP. I updated VIA driver and video card driver of my GeForce 2 MX but no help. I finally figure out the crashed was due to AGP x4, disabled it from the BIOS and I have play of 8 hours non-stop without crashing.

howldog · Post by **howldog** » Thu May 02, 2002 7:17 am

what is AGP x4?

Nozomi · Post by **Nozomi** » Thu May 02, 2002 5:50 pm

Originally posted by howldog
what is AGP x4?

Bus speed of your 3D display card, disable x4 will make it fall back to x2 or x1 and this is a know problems for system with VIA chip set works unstable under x4.

Tackon D'wall · Post by **Tackon D'wall** » Thu May 02, 2002 5:54 pm

Yea, that's what I'm wondering.
I know what the AGP slot is but how do I get access to changing anything about it?
I looked under my settings for my GEforce3 but saw nothing that had anything about AGP on it.

Plus if I deactivate my AGP then basically I'm running the game off software graphics

I've already turned many things off to play this game but I have to draw the line if I also have to deactivate my Gefore3 card to play. With me I think it's something to do with my cable modem setup cause when I deactive my Static settings I can play singleplayer fine. But multiplayer is BAD when I turn back on my static settings.

They said a patch for multiplayer is coming out very soon.

Nozomi · Post by **Nozomi** » Thu May 02, 2002 7:35 pm

You have to change the setting from your motherboard BIOS not from the display card. Depends on the system BIOS you use, for Award BIOs, it is under Advanced Chipset Features -> AGP Transfer Mode: 4x , set it to disable. Disable means fall back to 2x or 1x speed.

AGP 4x or 2x doesn't really make any different anyway, it doesn't mean you are in software mode just slower the bus speed and get rid of "Blue Screen of Death"! Try it and let us know the result. I have tried many setting but this is the only single setting can stop my system from crashing.

Tackon D'wall · Post by **Tackon D'wall** » Fri May 03, 2002 1:07 am

I know how to do alot of things but I have no idea how to do that.
I thought maybe is was through F10 on startup but there was nothing about AGP in there.
I thought maybe under system and device drivers in there but no dice so I did a search for bios and it displayed SMBIOS both as a dat file and eps file. It warned me not to mess around in there so I stopped there. If that's where I need to know please let me know and also if so what do I open it up with?

Sorry to bother you but messing with BIOS I know nothing about.
Any help would be appreciated

Pray for me

whiskeyjack · Post by **whiskeyjack** » Fri May 03, 2002 12:45 pm

Hi,

As far as bugs are concern I have been Fortunate not to come across any.

I let the game run for almost 3wks straight without exiting. I just kept it paused during the day and played at night.

Never had one problem.

Asus board
Gforce 4 TI4600 128mg
768mgs

Later,

WJ

Nozomi · Post by **Nozomi** » Fri May 03, 2002 7:02 pm

Originally posted by Tackon D'wall
I know how to do alot of things but I have no idea how to do that.
I thought maybe is was through F10 on startup but there was nothing about AGP in there.

Do you know what kind of BIOS your system using? Not all BIOS having the AGP mode setting available to end user. My system use "Award" and I can get into BIOS setup screen by pressing the "DEL" key upon system power up.

Tackon D'wall · Post by **Tackon D'wall** » Fri May 03, 2002 8:19 pm

I have a compaq presario and I hit F10 upon startup to get to my setup menu if that's what you mean. I tried tinkering around in there last night but there was no AGP setup or graphics setup at all

I thought that was BIOS but I wasn't positively sure. Grrrr, well I guess I can't do that then. I never get the black screen of death just freezes and occasional boots to desktop. The wierd thing about the boot to desktop is that it's still in 640 by 480 and when I click properties to change the resolution it freezes everytime

.

I can get it to play well single player now with my static settings gone but when I reconnect my static settings it's very tempormental. Sometimes it'll play for 1 or 2 hours but other times it won't even last 5-10 minutes.

Nozomi · Post by **Nozomi** » Sat May 04, 2002 10:57 am

Oh Compaq! No wonder you cannot find that BIOS option. :-(

Tackon D'wall · Post by **Tackon D'wall** » Sat May 04, 2002 2:31 pm

Well, my problems with DS are put to an end at the moment cause I just got Morrowind lastnight so the buggy and not so fun to play for long DS shall be shelved at least for a while. It's not a bad game and I'm not saying people shouldn't buy it but Morrowind is more of my cup of tea. Well, happy gaming to everyone but Morrowind is summoning me

Pray for me