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Lester Mako
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Posted - 2004.02.05 14:22:00 -
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Ok CCP what changed? I am getting a ton of crashes, CTDs, and the like.
Miner, Seller of Minerals, Father |
Moonracer
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Posted - 2004.02.05 14:59:00 -
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Very frustrating. The current thing I've come across is when the game reboots my system and I come back occasionally XP will pop-up a "X files are corrupt in X ccp directory" and I have to run scandisk to try and fix them before trying to play again.
For over a week now I haven't been able to play EVE. I have tried multiple video drivers, run scandisk and defrag, updated directx, run dxdiag, messed with msconfig(removed antivirus programs and clutter from startup), even reinstalled EVE. Nothing works.
The closest I've gotten was when I switched all graphics sliders to "best performance" in the Nvidia driver control panel. But that only gets me maybe a minutes time before the game crashes to the desktop or causes a full system reboot. And wth those graphics settings all of the text is blurred and unreadable.
I've got a P4 1.7Ghz CPU
with a Geforce 4 ti 4200 128mb 512mb RAM
and I'm running Win XP home edition
currently using nvidia driver 53.03 but have also tried 45.23 and 44.03 with little difference. I also tried using "Nasty File Remover" between driver switches.
sucks, I can't even log on long enough to change skills while I wait for a game fix. Guess I chose the wrong time to try out this game.
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Lester Mako
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Posted - 2004.02.05 15:04:00 -
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Mine happens when I begin a warp sequence. Right after my ship computer says, "warp drive active".
Last one was a BSOD in XP.
Miner, Seller of Minerals, Father |
Jacques Mano
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Posted - 2004.02.05 15:45:00 -
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I must say, I am having the same problem, switched over all my computer parts. And now I cannot even get to the log on stage. I tried to reinstall EVE, and it seems that the last 3 patches are messing it up. I have played this game since it came to North America and developed my character and now I cannot play and I am spending my hard erned money on nothing.
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Elbryyan
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Posted - 2004.02.05 20:48:00 -
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I can't log in unless I clear out my cache directory before starting eve. Otherwise it just stops responding when the splash screen comes up and tells me I need direct X 9.0b even though I have already.
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Lester Mako
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Posted - 2004.02.05 21:46:00 -
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I am crashing constantly. WTF is going on?
Miner, Seller of Minerals, Father |
Axor Thormgrost
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Posted - 2004.02.05 22:44:00 -
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Hi,
I was a computer tech a number of years so here are some ideas:
1. Each of you check your Motherboard manuals and find out what Interrupts each slot uses and what the AGP slot uses. I know that many motherboards do not share IRQ's as they are supposed to... and especially not with Video / Hard Drive Controllers or with Certain Network Cards.
2. If that doesnt do it, in Video settings, turn all performance to Best Picture quality. Then make sure you are in 32 bit color mode and 1024x768 resolution. Then check that anti-aliasing is set to "application selected" and that bitmap textures, fog effects etc. are all at defaults.
3. If you have the newest video, sound, network and DirectX drivers and none of this works, then there is a good possibility that your Registry has some artifacts floating around screwing up the works... especially if this is an install of XP more than 1 year old. The solution then is backup what you want to save, wipe the drive, and reinstall it all.
4. The only other idea I can come up with is possibly a hardware device scramming the bus or spamming the bus. This used to happen when a controller chip (serial port, parallel port, game port, usb etc.) was going bad and would do some really odd stuff. One way to check that is to turn off usb, parallel, serial and game ports and see if Eve still is crashing.
Why do crashes show up in Eve? Eve really pushes memory, video and hard drive transfer... so if the system is ever going to *****, Eve is a good one to show you it can.
Wish you all Luck in this !
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Moonracer
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Posted - 2004.02.06 05:53:00 -
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Thanks for the tips Axor, a lot of stuff I haven't tried. Though at this point I don't feel it's worth it.
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Lester Mako
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Posted - 2004.02.07 15:40:00 -
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I have the latest drivers, just installed the VIA 4-n-1 4.49v - no improvement.
Installed latest 4.10 ATI driver - no improvement.
Defragged HD - No Improvement.
This morning I powered down my Cable Modem and home router. Hoping this will improve packet handling. These devices has been up for 4 months and could possibly have routing errors.
My mobo doesn't have IRQ switches.
I don't think whiping my HD and reinstalling everything will work since all other games (non-MMOLRPG) work fine.
I'm an atheist so praying is out of the question....hmmm any more suggestions?
Miner, Seller of Minerals, Father |
Lester Mako
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Posted - 2004.02.07 15:42:00 -
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Oh and, I was able to rid all of these problems after the last patch (Castor) but with the latest patch I have BSOD, CTD, lockups more than ever.
Oh, and I am running two accounts on the same computer. Which I have been doing for months. My honest opinion is that a code change is the root to my issues.
Miner, Seller of Minerals, Father |
Lester Mako
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Posted - 2004.02.07 19:27:00 -
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Turning down sound accelleration to "NONE" doesn't help me. Even is I run one account without sound (set to 0.0) the same effect happens, crash, lockup (mostly), CTD, BSOD.
:(
Miner, Seller of Minerals, Father |
Coss DeBlade
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Posted - 2004.02.08 13:15:00 -
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For me the sollution was to lower the speed of my memories from 333 to 266. This fix has helped others. I see it as a temporary fix untill the figure out what is causing the problems.
Might be worth a try...
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IZON
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Posted - 2004.02.08 16:06:00 -
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I'm currently running ati drivers 3.10. Just after Castor I had frequent issues with ctd's and system locks. Someone mentioned relaxing the ram timings which I did, from 5,3,2,2 to 6,3,3,2.5 - system locks vanished and ctd's are few and far between now. (never had a BSOD though). Oh I'm running 2x256 Corsair TwinX ram PC3200 with an AMD 2100 clocked @ 2.1Ghz w/ 9500(NP)gfx card.
"...master! there's a guy in the south village called IZON, he is a Ninja!" |
Qutsemnie
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Posted - 2004.02.09 05:38:00 -
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Edited by: Qutsemnie on 10/02/2004 07:06:06
edited out the stuff screwing up the thread.
Also my client is stable after this last patch.
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Aldelphius
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Posted - 2004.02.10 04:49:00 -
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man this thread is fubared, but hope someone can explain the CTD problem. I hae never had a problem, and ive had 4 today alone
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Moonracer
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Posted - 2004.02.10 08:02:00 -
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lesson: if you're backing up your hard drive onto CDs, use decent quality CDs and check them once burned before formating your hard drive.
Well, I reinstalled xp fresh. Fresh new drivers, no clutter. no nothing. And suprisingly EVE worked! I had almost 3 glorious hours of game time before EVE crashed again, freezing my computer. Now if I try to load EVE the EULA and logon screen graphics are all garbled (not going to bother going further).
As if having the game mess up my OS (admitendly half of it was me trying to get the game to work) wasn't enough, due to my idiocy I lost several CDs worth of files and spent a day and a half trying to get my computer back to a functioning state. But EVE still wont work. all that for nothing.
argh, sorry I just needed to wine a bit.
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Methusela
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Posted - 2004.02.10 16:46:00 -
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this crashes thing is really anoying, i dont know what changed in the last patch but right now i cant play EVE;
my comp completely freezes after a few minutes playing, sometimes i cant reach my skills window and then it freezes again... aghhhh this problem is frustrating, ive tryied everthing imaginable with my computer but its still the same. The only thing that helps me is deleting the cache dir, this gives me 3-5 mins of gameplay, then... lockup.
Im pretty sure its a code bug, it only happens with this game and since the last patch. ive benn playing with other directx9 games and none of this happens with them.
So, i guess there are now enough reports to ccp start looking for this bug.
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Etoile Chercheur
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Posted - 2004.02.10 18:59:00 -
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same problem, except it always seems to happen when i click on a bookmark in my P&P tool, or one of the open windows for bookmarks you get when you double click on a folder of them in there. i finally wisened up and started using the ones in my nav menu, but it's annoying as i usually set course by ones from the next system so that i jump as soon as i hit the gate. not to avoid campers, mind you. just saving time going back n' forth between two systems.
i must have CTDed at least 20 times over the past two days.
Midshipman Etoile Chercheur - Logistics Division (M&T) | Hadean Drive Yards
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Fillmeup
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Posted - 2004.02.10 22:26:00 -
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Exactly same thing here ... whenever I right click on the People and Places section to warp etc it crashes me instantly to desktop. I can, however, also use the navigation to get around, but as above it gets annoying after a while.
Sometimes it works though, so I can't isolate the problem. This problem has been occuring for the last 4 or 5 days that i can tell - nada before that.
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ShyLion
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Posted - 2004.02.11 11:25:00 -
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Exactly same thing here ... whenever I right click on the People and Places section to warp etc it crashes me instantly to desktop.
I had this problem when i copied my bookmark into cargo and the copied it back to P&P.
When i clicked on it - game crashed. But after loggin in again i managed to remove them both and now game runs as usual.
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Drift Spec
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Posted - 2004.02.12 00:57:00 -
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Yep pretty much get CTD every 20 - 30 mins now, crashes & I even got a few BSOD.. pretty much since current patch.
Everyone with the prob have a Gforce or ATI?
I am using a Gforce atm , but getting a 9600XT soon.
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Kiien
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Posted - 2004.02.12 01:41:00 -
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I can't stay in the game more than a min or 2 before I get booted to desktop. Every single time I try to log in.
FX5950 here, but one of my other computers is using TI4600 and it doesn't get booted at all.
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Drift Spec
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Posted - 2004.02.12 02:16:00 -
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Hmm sounds like Gforce issue within Eve, the same card worked perfectly before the patch with 44.xx drivers.. now I CTD regardless of what drivers I install.. tried everything from 44.xx up to the current ones.
Looks like the coding in Eve for Nvidia cards is a little "bugged" at the moment 
Lets hope the extended D/T on friday is a fix.
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Daemun Khanid
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Posted - 2004.02.12 03:58:00 -
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Getting the same problem with Radeon 9700 pro. CTD'd maybe once every 2 weeks before the patch, now it's every few minutes at times.
VADM. Daemun of Khanid |
Drift Spec
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Posted - 2004.02.12 06:05:00 -
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Well there goes that theory
Well I sure hope they fix it soon, can't get a worse problem than constant CTD in a online game IMO.
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Scorpyn
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Posted - 2004.02.12 10:02:00 -
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Anybody who hasn't experienced a CTD? just out of curiosity...
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Coss DeBlade
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Posted - 2004.02.12 13:04:00 -
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As has been mentioned earlier, lowering the timings of the RAM has helped a few people. There seam to be a connection between CTDs/hangs and memory above 512 mb. I have 2 almost identical machines where the difference is the memory. One has 512 (Eve working perfectly) and the other with 1 gb (Eve was hanging/CTD untill memoryspeed was lowered).
Other problems has been with using some programs for audiocommunication (Teamsound, Rogerwilco, etc) while running eve.
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Lily Savage
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Posted - 2004.02.12 13:27:00 -
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Other problems has been with using some programs for audiocommunication (Teamsound, Rogerwilco, etc) while running eve.
I often get a CTD or re-boot when jumping or docking, and have wondered if the sound that is triggered by these events was in some way related to the problem.
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Scorpyn
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Posted - 2004.02.12 13:32:00 -
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Edited by: Scorpyn on 12/02/2004 13:33:15
What soundcard do you use? If built in on the motherboard, which motherboard do you use? (as detailed info as possible would be good...)
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T Master
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Posted - 2004.02.12 14:19:00 -
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I get CTD's, computer totally freezes and also a couple of Bluscreens now and then. Extremely random it seems. Sometimes it crashes every five minutes for a couple of days and then suddenly I can play for many hours without problems. It happends everywhere: it may be in space doin nothing, when targeting someone, when jumping, when docking, when sort stuff in cargo, when my ship just stand still in a station... I have read every fu***** thread about theese problems in this pages and a couple of other and have tried all suggested solutions but have no success. I have had contact with support and sent in my dx report and had a couple of suggested solutions from them also and verified that my hardware should be ok. Nothing get my game work properly yet. Today I will blow my computer completely and reinstall and try to play with as clean computer setup as possible. If it still not work I really don't know if I can stand this anymore, I really love this game and therfore I cant cope with it always crasching in my face.
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