MOHAA freezing up

[Capone]

I installed MOHAA and this game keeps feezing up about 10 seconds into the game. Can't get out of it either. The only way is to hit the reset button and restart. Is it my video card? I have a Powercolor brand ATI Radeon 9600 Pro. The system is a Athlon 64 3000+, 512MB ram WXP pro
This game ran fine on my old system with a cheap ATI Radeon 7000 64mb card.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[CTUnit1]

Have you updated the game yet? I would update the game first. patch here- http://www.3dgamers.com/dlselect/gam...edisk.exe.html

Then try this, which was the cause of a problem I had with MOHAA (same thing happened).
Click start-run->type dxdiag hit enter. When that screen comes up click the sound tab at the top, then lower the slider to the "Basic acceleration" level. Start the game and mabey that helped. If not, check out the game's support site here - http://eatech.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/e...wers.search_nl

[Capone]

tried both and still have the same problem...guess I'm off to gamer's support

[AMDTurbo]

Uninstall it......reboot.....reinstall.....reboot.....did you try that?

Also did you turn up the settings at all.....I would start with stock settings, work the res up. Then try all the candy. But your card should be able to handle it pretty well....

[Capone]

did the uninstall re-install thing....didn't work. What i did do that seemed to work was to set the AGP to 4x instead of auto in the BIOS. I tried to set it to 8x and everything in the game froze the instant the game started.

[BobyJo]

This type of problem is normally caused by a driver problem. What ATI Drivers are you running? Did you remove all reminants of the old drivers from the Registry before installing the new driver? I would recommend the latest Cat set from ATI. We are running the latest drivers on our systems. We have a system with a Radeon 9700Pro, one with a Radeon 9800Pro and my system with a X800XT Vivo card. We have never had any problems with these drivers. There is a radeon driver remover listed for download. I have never used this software, I just open the registry and find "Radeon" files. l delete all them that pertain to the video card. Close and reboot the system, then make sure the system is operating good with the generic drivers installed by XP. Then install your new driver set. If this does not resolve your problem, How long has it been since you formatted and did a complete fresh install of your OS? Hope this helps.

[MrFuriousX]

You may also want to disable fast writes in the Bios.

Also what mobo do you have?

Updated chipset drivers?
Updated Sound & video?
DirectX version?

Sp1? Sp2? and if 2 DEP enabled?

[Capone]

Last night I installed the DOOM3 Demo and had the same problem. I checked my driver date and version and yes it was pretty old.
I went to Powercolor's website and downloaded that latest drivers. Doom3 runs perfectly now and I thought MOH was doing pretty good. About 20 minutes into the game It started freezing up again. Only this time I'd get some kind of message saying that my video card stopped responding and that it was reset. Then the game would start working again for about 5 minutes and the same message would appear.
What i didn't do was uninstall the old driver before installing the new one so maybe that's the problem. I'll give that a shot later. Thanks for the help and I'll let you know how that goes.
BTW my MOBO type is a Gigabyte GA-K8NS Pro and I just built this system maybe two weeks ago so no need for the fresh install.

[Madley]

First search for a driver RIP detonator.
Then uninstall all drivers of your mobo and grafical card
Reboot
Then install DirectX 9 and other drivers except mobo and grafica drivers.
Reboot
Then install the rest of the needed drivers.
Check bios for sideband adressing and see if primary vga is AGP and not PCI .
Still problems? Do the same but do a full format of your windows partition and install all service packs and updates.

[BobyJo]

Maybe I am a little touched, but I did not see in any of your posts where you completely removed the old drivers. Also why are you going to powercolor for the video drivers? All Radeon cards are running the same GPU. I would recommend that you go to ATI and download the latest drivers. This way you can be assured you are getting the latest and best. I realize you are thinking that powercolor should have all the drivers for thier products. In my expierence, these outside mfg are always running a couple or more late in thier driver versions. Catalyst 5.3's are available at the ATI site right now. I would recommend you format your hard drive partition with yout OS on it and reinstall the OS fresh. After you get the OS installed, install the chipset drivers, sound drivers,and any other stuff you need to have working. If all is working great, then install the video drivers, this way you know there is no other driver causing any problems. This way you will have a great OS install, with fresh video drivers.

[rulingMagi]

Try crogramfiles/eagames

[zetachi]

replying to 7 year old posts?

[Keven]

replying to 7 year old posts?

The first one he replied to was 10 years old.

[frogmeat69]

Hey, at least there is some activity here compared to what I've noticed lately.