quake3 crashes!

[borax56]

I have never been able to play quake 3 long without it hard crashing my system I am at wits end I am running a elsa geforce SDR vid card on a pIII450 w/a soyo mb.nothing is overclocked.the picture will freeze with the music stuck also I disabled v-sync on the card and thought it was fixed but it did eventually crash and now does so more often.any help??

[Floppyman]

Have you tried the latest drivers?

[borax56]

Yes I have tried the latest from nvidia also the latest from elsa.have also flashed the latest bios to the card.I have had this problem for months but had just quit playing the game but I am determined to solve this mystery

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[Floppyman]

Are you sure nothing is overheating?

[borax56]

I currently am running with one side cover off and a fan blowing directly into the machine.

[Floppyman]

updated anything in the meantime say Direct X?

[borax56]

Everything is updated to the latest available version but the game has always crashed.(before and after updates}

[Tiretool]

You are aware that elsa "just" released new drivers right? I posted a link about 2 weeks ago here (http://www.pcmech.com/ubb/Forum17/HTML/000139.html). You may already have them....
This is a long shot... but re-start your system in safe mode. Go to device manager and under display adapters, if you have more than one device showing up... remove all of them. Reboot. Install the fresh drivers from the CD and then update them with the newest drivers from Elsa's web site.

I'm running the same card (Elsa Erazor X) and I have no problems with Q3 demo.

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[borax56]

tiretool,there is only one adapter displayed and I do have the latest elsa drivers.here are the drivers loaded in device manager driver detail
C:\windows\system\elsaezxd.drv
C:\windows\system\elsaezxv.vxd
C:\windows\systemvmm32.vxd[vdd vxd]
file version4.1201.0206--0050
thanks for all the replies,Dave

[Floppyman]

how about the latest bios for your board? Do you have it?

[Tiretool]

Which motherboard in particular you running that on?

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[borax56]

actually no I have not upgraded the bios on the board.I never fully understood how to do that until recently when I tried it{successfully!!} with the vid card,but I will attemp it soon.the board is a soyo 6ba+III

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[The-G]

I have the very same problem.

I have a AMD K6-2 500mhz, with 128meg Ram and an Xentor 32 TNT2 Ultra graphics card.

The Menu comes up I can mess about with the menus, screen settings, everything.

I can play the game for about 10 - 15 seconds. The game plays very fast and smooth. Then 100% lock-up. No Ctrl+Alt+Del or anything.

I also get the same problem with Tiberian Sun. This Encounters Internal Errors as soon as the game starts.

And many other games just will not play. Windows works fine, Just not games.

I have resorted to buying a new PC, But this is not really a good solution.

If you get an answer could you let us know ?

[borax56]

I can usually play for a little longer but when it does freeze it is locked up tight.No other games are doing this including unreal tourny and thief.If I figure it out I will leave a post..

[borax56]

I may have fixed the problem,my nic card was sharing the same irq as the geforce.I switched the nic to a different slot on the mobo switched some shared irq's around and now the game plays great!!hopefully the mystery is solved. also I am now running the detonator 3 drivers from invidia and am trying direct x8 although these changes did not contribute to the game now working.

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[hackercarlos]

Great borax56 http://www.pcmech.com/ubb/smile.gif So how does your Q3 run on that Geforce card. Please tell me the FPS.

To do so start a Q3 game and pause it then go into the console by pressing (~) and type in: /cg DrawFPS 1

Mine ran at 50-55 FPS on my TNT 2.

[Tiretool]

That command doesn't work on my version of Q3.

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[hackercarlos]

Hey TT. I think that I got it wrong. I haven't played Q3 (busy playing UT http://www.pcmech.com/ubb/biggrin.gif) in a while but I think that the command was something like that.

try www.quakeplanet.com (http://www.quakeplanet.com) . I think that they have all of the commands for the console. http://www.pcmech.com/ubb/smile.gif

[hackercarlos]

OK TireT. It is /cg_drawFPS 1. That should work now. http://www.pcmech.com/ubb/smile.gif

[Tiretool]

Thanks.

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