Sro emergency ^^

[xKingpinx]

ok guys so i know have created like 3 topics in the past about this but its because i never seem to get a solution to it.... i just got a new graph card for my desktop and i have tried a bunch of stuff and nothing seems to work.... the problem is ...everytime i log on..i seem to be on for ehh 5-10 min..sometimes longer..and when im walking through town or just outside grinding..the game crashes..and when i switch towns it crashes also...so im kinda in a dilemma here...

[Mousetrap]

Posting what you have tried is a start, it helps from people like me telling you to do things you've probably already done.

Drivers?
What kind of card, processor and how much ram do you have.

[xKingpinx]

ATI Radeon x1050 graphics card.... Intel Premium 4 CPU 3.20 GHz, 3.19 GHz , 1.00 GB of RAM Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 3

[Ragnorak]

I use to have problems with constant crashes a long time ago, try to find a different DirectX version. the one I have atm is DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) don't think is the latest one but works for me.
you have a pretty good cpu...try to get another GB of RAM...really improves pc/game performance..might not help with crashes but just a thought.

[xKingpinx]

ok ill check it out..thanks ragnorak....if anyone else has any suggestions that might help me please say them thx for the responses

[firefox6]

get DirectX 9c then turn off shadows and the settings for the water to low or off.

if your card comes over clocked from a 3ed party look for drivers from that site if not look for newer ones from ATI. check to see if you have the power to run the card and to see if it is getting to hot.

is this the only game it happens on?

[xKingpinx]

yes this is the only game it crashes on ....

[BlackFox898]

thats sro for yeah, but why don't people go to a real computer help site?

[HBblade]

lol ati radion x1050 (is it the 128mb or the 256mb?)

teleport load crashes or character load crashes just means ur video card or other kinds of hardware aren't up to par w/ game graphics...

1) either turn everything in graphics off (& put on a crappy resolution)

or

2) buy better hardware

it got nothing to do w/ drivers...sro takes a lot of resources to run nowadays (more so than you'd think, if you got the graphics set too high)...i remember good old days when i'd be able to just play on some gay 128mb shared video memory w/ 512mb ram (laptop), XD...now my other laptop w/ 3gigs of ram & 256mb shared video memory can't even play w/o slow ass frame rates...my new laptop (4gigs ram, geforce 9500m gs 512mb vram, 2.4ghz dual core) runs sro so so smoothly, XD

[xKingpinx]

yea but i cant imagine it being the graphics card...and yea i have everything set on low

[xKingpinx]

now it keeps freezing at the login before i even attempt to log in...and it freezes at loading the char

[MissLe2]

lol if you went to main sro site you could find many solutions to try

this one worked for me and many in my union

go to your main SRO folder in windows

find your main SRO .exe files

Right click on them, choose properties

find capatablities, change compatabilities to windows 98

confirm, then restart SRO


Hope this works for you, so we dont see this again
Seen you in game, by the way, lol

[PR0METHEUS]

lol if you went to main sro site you could find many solutions to try

this one worked for me and many in my union

go to your main SRO folder in windows

find your main SRO .exe files

Right click on them, choose properties

find capatablities, change compatabilities to windows 98

confirm, then restart SRO


Hope this works for you, so we dont see this again
Seen you in game, by the way, lol

I never figured out if that actually helps, but I always have my SRO installation configured that way.

I'm running SRO on an AMD Athlon XP 3200+ with 512 megs RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 graphics card with I think 128 megs vram.

I also changed my window manager to use IceWM instead of KDE because KDE takes up too many resources on my system. SRO runs fairly well in this setup, but it does freeze sometimes if the card gets too hot.

Too bad you can't change window managers in Windows XP/Vista...

The fact that my card doesn't have a fan or heatsinks can't help much.