I'm playing MOHAA Spearhead on a 2.53 GHz 784MB system with a GF4 TI4200 installed.

Frequently (always less that 10 minutes into play) the game will lock up, locking up the entire system. When it locks I hear a loud screaching sound thru the speakers. One time it actually reset the system in the middle of play, but most often I get the lockups,

I tried loading them most recent nVidia GeForce drivers (dated 11-22-05) but that was no help. I have checked the system log and there aren't any errors there. I have no other problems with this PC at all.

Anyone know what else I can look at or try to fix this?

11/29/2005 5:50:42 PM

Does it only happen during multiplayer or is single player affected too?

11/29/2005 7:46:23 PM

I've never played multiplayer, its only single player

11/29/2005 8:36:56 PM

re-seat all the ram, plugs, etc

[Edited on November 29, 2005 at 8:41 PM. Reason : ?]

11/29/2005 8:41:22 PM

no luck, any other ideas?

11/29/2005 11:34:28 PM

is the game patch up to date?

11/29/2005 11:44:11 PM

installed latest patches for both MOHAA and spearhead and still get lockups

11/30/2005 12:50:29 AM

sound drivers? i've had band sound drivers crash my system before while gaming (believe it or not)

11/30/2005 1:31:19 AM

Well it is possible for a machine to be too fast for a game, but MOHAA is only like 3 yrs old so I would highly doubt it.

11/30/2005 7:16:09 AM

get memtest and run it, random crashes can often be attributed to bad RAM
http://www.memtest.org/

11/30/2005 9:25:17 AM

monitor temps first - it could be the heat
then check the memory under stress (memtest and other apps like photoshop or whatever)
otherwise try a different vid card. it may be dying.

11/30/2005 9:32:36 AM

^ right after lockup, i felt the graphics card proc heatsink and the cpu heatsink and neither were too warm so i dont think its a heat issue. I'll run a memtest

11/30/2005 11:09:22 AM

so i've tried a different video card and swapped out the ram, still no luck.

any more ideas?

12/4/2005 11:38:01 PM

i turned off texture compression and set the texture filter to bilinear (from trilinear)...not that I know what that shit means...and it seems to have fixed it.

12/5/2005 12:57:41 AM