crashing on start

Belmakor · Post by **Belmakor** » 16 Nov 2005, 00:13

I too have just tried TA Spring on my machine, with exactly the same results: Only the "Empty Script" works - all others crash when pressing Enter to start. I also did the same - lowering all the specs to absolute minimum, disabling all the "extras", etc. Always crashes. Have submitted one error report/dump.

My specs:

OS: Windows XP Home (SP2)
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2, 4200+
Gfx: GeForce 6600GT, 128MB, dual DVI out
RAM: 2 GB
HDD: 160GB SATA, 90GB free

Anyone out there who's experienced this problem found any solution yet?

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 16 Nov 2005, 00:19

Arg, it seems compleatly random... I know for a fact that vechs uses nearly the exact same system you have but he hosts games all the time, the only major difference is he has a better gforce... I wonder if it has to do with the XP home 64 bit interface... as that seems to be common factor...

Flozi are you running XP pro?

Keep sending error reports into zaphod, maby he can figure out a solution...

Post by **jcnossen** » 16 Nov 2005, 00:45

Belmakor (Seeing your pc hardware I think it's you), your crashreport indicated a crash within the nvidia driver.
In a very unlikely case it could be some unrelated pointer bug, but it could also be a video driver bug.

In any case, do you have the most recent video driver update?

Belmakor · Post by **Belmakor** » 16 Nov 2005, 07:27

Hi Zaphod,

Yes, it's probably me. I'll make sure I have the latest drivers then try again.

Belmakor

Belmakor · Post by **Belmakor** » 16 Nov 2005, 07:55

Well, downloaded the newest drivers (released only a day or so ago!) and ran using them - am able to play now.

Thanks :)

Now to re-learn how to play this game (been quite a while since I played TA)

Belmakor

ZeratulTheDT · Post by **ZeratulTheDT** » 19 Nov 2005, 18:11

Anyone have a fix for this yet? It's been weeks now

FolCan · Post by **FolCan** » 01 Jan 2006, 20:40

By the way

MY friend downloaded the latest drivers and it now works fine on his pc

MatC · Post by **MatC** » 13 Jan 2006, 22:47

Crashes when I press return if running any except blank script.
About to try updated nvidia drivers.
/Mat
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Update: that fixed it. Old drivers were 66.93 and new are 81.98.
I am guessing with an empty script it creates nothing at all so it doesn't expose the driver bug.
Thanks!
/Mat

OS: Windows XP Pro
OS Service Pack: no idea, probably SP1
Directx: 9.0c
CPU Type: AMD Athlon XP 2400, 2000 MHz
Graphics Card: Geforce 6600 GT (128 MB I think)
Driver for Graphics Card: nvidia, not latest
RAM: 1024 MB (PC3200 DDR)

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crashing on start

Same here...