2000 lockups in UT, and other games

[phatcat]

in 3D games I get lockups

running a AMD 900
256 megs of memory
GeForce 2 GTS 32 megs of DDR

with
Winodws 2000 Service Pack 2
DirectX 8.0a
Detinator Drivers for 2000
Santa Cruz 2000 Drivers
newly formated system (had the same problem before format)

happends in UT, INF, Tribes, and MAX PAYNE (only games I have installed right now)

checked logs, and it dose not count it as a poor shutdown
some times it loses settings that I had before crash in the system

I can play for a random amount of time before the game locks up

HELP!! PLEASE!!

 

[Kisen_K]

XP is punishing you...

 

[phatcat]

XP is ****'n GONE

I had this problem the FIRST time I installed 2000, and in XP, and now when I re-installed 2000, Now I"m gonna kill 2000 and go back to 98 SE and see if that helps

 

[phatcat]

installing 98SE fixed it. I up graded again

I think I know what it is

for some fuck'n[color] reason in standards windows 95-98 I can specify the IRQs. but in NT,2k, or XP its dynamic IRQs put them almost all my devices on 11!!! thats my USB, Video, Sound, and Network.


any ideas on changing IRQs

 

[Kibbles-N-Bits]

Phat.. PLEASE tell me you found a way to fix that! I have the same prob since I installed a new soundcard. Win98SE throws my geforce and my ethernet car on the same IRQ. Random freezes in games and all that

 

[phatcat]

yes

uninstall 2k

I have done this like 4 times. its 2k, and there is no way to get around it!

I had a system admin, 4 techs (not including me), and 5 geeks look at it. they where stumped

Jay (a sys admin) had a problem with a DSL guy with setup becasue of this under 2k and could got get it the fuck off!!

its 2k!!

 

[LifesBane(4Corners)]

Uh. I have 2k, and no problems with any games

What type of 2k are you on? The server one?

 

[phatcat]

Originally posted by LifesBane[4C]
Uh. I have 2k, and no problems with any games

uhh.. yeah that helps

its 2k professional

 

[phatcat]

*sigh*
figured it out

its some fuck'n undocumented features to turn it off on install

 

[LifesBane(4Corners)]

Hehe, THAT'S why I'm not a tech support person I'd just confuse the people more and end up un-intentionally making them feel bad when I say that I have the same configuration and it's working

By the way Phatcat, I've heard good things about the Santa Cruz sound cards...you like it?

 

[phatcat]

yeah... when it fuck'n works

there little utility for sound sucks
the versijack is neat
other than that, its a good card, good replacement for the Live.

funny story. I sold my SB live to by bud, becasue the SB live don't work on Abit boards well...

uuknown to me he also had one DOH!!

 

[LifesBane(4Corners)]

Heheh, definetly an oops