Error in Area51, beginning.

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Hello everyone,

I hate to start on the board, then ask a question, but I'm so frustrated that it isn't working right.

I just recently got a new 3-d card, a 256mb BFG GeForce 6200 OC (overclocked). Now,... I can run F.E.A.R and Quake 4 decently well at 'medium' graphics, mainly due to my 2.2ghz pentium 4 processor.

But I KNOW my computer can take everything Area51 SHOULD be dishing out just fine,... and it has been,... Til I entered 'the hot zone' the very first stage,... at the very beginning, when the alien's jump through the windows, shards of glass fly everywhere,... but the particals freeze on my screen. Anyone know how I can fix this, or is it a problem with my hardware?

Oh, and I have the most recent Drivers and most recent DirectX as well. Also, I've tried it with every update patch, with and without the disc, and even different settings,.... it still appears EVERYTIME! EVEN IN THE BLOODY SCOPE OF THE GUN

Here's a link to a screenshot,... ;

www.geocities.com/recca01982/screenshot000.bmp

can anyone PLEASE help me x.x

EDIT :

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I used to have a 124mb Radeon 9800 before, and it ran 'okay' until large amounts of mobs, or too many textures popped up on my screen.

[BarryB]

There was a patch to solve this I believe, and I just noticed it removes Starforce

http://data.area51-game.com/pc_patches/A51_US_Patch_1_2.exe

Hope it helps!

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Originally Posted by BarryB

There was a patch to solve this I believe, and I just noticed it removes Starforce

http://data.area51-game.com/pc_patches/A51_US_Patch_1_2.exe

Hope it helps!

I tried that update, even reinstalled Area51 and used that update,... still getting the same problem,... only this time is crashes my PC with a 'windows stop error'. Dumps the physical memory, and tells me to restart. x.x

EDIT :

Well,... I just kept my screen facing the ground and ran past the first windows,... then low and behold the WATER BOTTLE in the next room did the same thing!.... I put up with it,... as hard as it was to kill with a image of a water bottle stuck in the middle of your screen. But then everything went fine after that,... no other glass froze it, even with the 'aliens' jumping through them. But when I went to turn off the generator,... A STUPID PIECE OF BLOOD ON THE WALL MADE ME CRASH *frown* this is really frustrating,...

[DABhand]

Try not overclocking your card first, why people do this is ludicrous.

[dazzashazza]

how much memory do you have and what type, is it the old SDRAM or the newer DDRAM ? most of the newer games need at least 512mb of memory and ideally 1 gig of memory in my opinion. also, not sure how good your card is but i run a geforce 6800LE and it just about runs the likes of FEAR, DOOM3 etc on the high settings. you really need a high end card to run these games at a decent frame rate otherwise you get this slowdown youre on about and often a freeze up cos the card cant cope with the detail processing quickly enough. overclocking isnt always a good idea as this can damage your card if youre not careful and cause the games to freeze up.

try running your card at the factory settings, not overclocked and make sure all other programs are off, you can check this by pressing control alt delete at the same time and a box will pop up telling you whats running. its ok to end any programs that are running here, this will free up some much needed memory to run your games.

sounds like you got a decent enough processor but you may need a better graphics card and more memory if youre still getting probs.

hope this helps.

[BarryB]

Bum! Thought that patch would work

DAB, the card is overclocked out the box by default (why it's called 6200 OC) but only by 25Mhz on the core, 375Mhz instead of 350Mhz.

The card needs to be run at 350Mhz and tested on the game again, if it still does the same it eliminates the overclock as the problem and then we clutch at straws!!

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I have 1.51 gb of ram,... it's DD2,... pretty new I believe. Also I checked on SRTEST.com and it tells me "Congratulations, your system will Rock this product! Wish we had a system that hot you lucky dog."

But still,... I STILL get those stupid glass shard like particals freezing on my screen, before my system totally blanks out and crashes. *see the screenshot above for picture detail*. I have the most recent drivers of both my 3-d card and my mini-ports,.. but still I'm at a loss at why it does this

[BarryB]

Your best bet is an e-mail to Midway support I'm afraid, either that or try another video card in your system and see if it does the same or some older drivers.

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well I tried my other 3-d card again, and it works,.... so I guess my NEW 3-d card just isn't supported??

[Joe Forster/STA]

Or the support for your new 3D card, in even the newest driver package, is not compatible with this game! I remember reading the long lists of fixed game-related bugs in the docs of each nVidia Detonator/Forceware release...

(Oh, by the way, wrong forum. Moved.)

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Ah, I suppose that could be true also,... I'm giving it one last try,... then I give up lol.

BTW, I apologize about the forum mix up ^^

[kid_t]

it could be your monitor - if it is quite old