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Niqaragvaz
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Gothic 2 crashes or quits to windows
   

athlon 850mhz, 384mb ram, ge force 2 mx 32mb, directx 9,winxp pro sp1

Sometimes it crashes after 10 minutes ant sometimes after several hours of playing. It's no difference in city or outside. It crashes with no error messages. I tryed all latest video card drivers. Only one time it crashed with this : smartheap library
mem bad pointer
ok cancel
Actually i'm having this prolem with all games but others crash after some seconds.


plz help me
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Post Thu Aug 28, 2003 10:41 am
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Re: Gothic 2 crashes or quits to windows
   

quote:
Originally posted by Niqaragvaz

Actually i'm having this prolem with all games but others crash after some seconds.


How old is your windows installation?
Does your mainboard use a Via chipset (KT133(A) + 686B SB) ?
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my mainbord is MSI K7T Turbo and uses VIA Kt133 A Chipset
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Post Thu Aug 28, 2003 7:11 pm
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Then this stuff is interesting for you:
http://www.georgebreese.com/net/software/#PCI
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Post Thu Aug 28, 2003 8:06 pm
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i don't think that its because of sound blaster but ill try . thanx
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Post Thu Aug 28, 2003 8:27 pm
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Could you mail me that file (mikass@delfi.lt) because when i try to download it, it says :
You cannot download this file right now.

If you were trying to download from a site other than www.georgebreese.com:
The webmaster of that site tried to link directly to our files. I do not allow that. Please tell the webmaster of that site to stop it. My site simply doesn't have enough bandwidth.

If you visited www.georgebreese.com:
Your web browser must accept a cookie before you can download. (and i enabled all cookies and tryed with IE and OPERA )
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Post Fri Aug 29, 2003 8:46 am
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The download works with Opera7.
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THANK you very much it works . All games work fine . thanx
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Post Thu Sep 04, 2003 7:05 pm
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still problem
   

i had the same problem and installed this patch and it still didnt work..i recently installed a sound blaster live card and i have a via chipset and all my games keep crashing to my desktop still. i doubt its my pc, 2ghz, 1gb ram, 128mb radeon card. ne help?
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My gothic 2 crashes exactly the same! I have P4 1700 Mhz, ati radeon 9500 128mb, 256mb ram, sb live! 5.1 , winXP, directX 9.0a , catalyst 3.6 for ati . On the disk where gothic2 is installed, there is 2,5 GB of free space.
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DirectX9.0a is not a good idea. Update to 9.0b or go back to 8.1.
-Create a large fixed swap file (1.5 GB or so).
-Set the AGP aperture size to 128 MB or bigger.
-Disable sound to find out if the SBLive causes the trouble.
-Change the sound provider to Miles or DirectsounHW and disable reverb.
-Close _all_ programs before you start Gothic 2.
-Kill all spyware
-get a new virus scanner
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sound blaster
   

well sound blaster live is definetely the problem for me...i disabled the sound and it doesnt crash in any of my games. I have tried disabling my onboard audio and tried sounblaster again yet it still crashes. Should i just get a new sound card? or maybe a new motherboard that supports athlon and isnt a via chipset? and if i should, any reccomendations? I have a 5.1 speaker system...Thanks.
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I have to say I´m not surprised the SBLive is the source of the trouble.
Is a SoundStorm certified NForce 2 mainboard an option for you?
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mainboard or sound card?
   

Wouldnt it be more convient just to buy a sound card? Or just to buy a whole new mainboard?
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I´m talking about a new mainboard. Some -but not all- NForce 2 mainboards have very good onboard sound with integrated AC3 encoding. These mainboards are certified by NVidia or Dolby Labs (forgot which one) to make sure the sound quality is as intended. The label is called 'SoundStorm'.
Most NForce 2 boards also have excellent overclocking abilities. A slight downside is that 2 identical memory modules are required to reach full speed.
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