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| Author: | nazgul [ Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | BW 1.6: UT crashes/hung up after system restart |
After installing 1.6 and starting UT (-> Instant Action)immidiately everything works fine. But the next time I start UT and load any gametype with BW as mutator or one of the BW-Gametypes after shutting down Windows, the map doesn't load, but the system freezes or hangs up after some time loading (sometimes the map actually loads but the game freezes just seconds after I pressed fire to start the match). There is also no Errormessage! I have reboot Windows (I use Win 98). But that doesn't mean UT works this time... When I try again, I only get the same result. This only happens with BW 1.6. When I go back to 1.5 everything is alright. |
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| Author: | Bjossi [ Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | BW 1.6: UT crashes/hung up after system restart |
Must be something about the gametypes, let´s test that. Open up Ballistic.ucl with notepad and remove the four Game= lines in there, save the changes and try again. (backup the file before changing, in case you don´t have the ZIP/UMOD) |
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| Author: | RuneStorm [ Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | BW 1.6: UT crashes/hung up after system restart |
That sucks! If you can give use the log file after one of those incidents, maybe we could find out whats going on... Be sure to tell us what happened after you tried Bjossi's suggestion too. |
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| Author: | nazgul [ Wed Mar 22, 2006 1:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | BW 1.6: UT crashes/hung up after system restart |
Bjossi's suggestion didn't work at all. The map loaded but after starting it, the game completly hung up and again I got no error message nor did the log file show up. But as it seems the recently released "drunken walk"-patch fixes the problem. After I installed the patch and disabled that drunken walk effect, UT ran just smooth. Then I shut down Windows and after the restart, UT with the BW-Mutator worked. As I don't so much time right now I couldn't test, if that solved the problem or if it only worked this one time. I'll let you know... |
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| Author: | nazgul [ Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | BW 1.6: UT crashes/hung up after system restart |
After some testing, I have come to the conclusion 1.6 is not playable (at least on my system). The bug described above hasn't been solved with the "drunken walk"-patch, that only bought some time: When I play a game with BW as a mutator, the game runs well until the next is to be loaded. Then the loading screen appears but the game hungs up/freezes after a few seconds and the windows mousecursor appears. No error message shows up as with any "usual" bug when UT crashes and the error log appears. I have use reset, but when I start UT again with BW I get the same result. Without BW UT runs just perfect. So unfortunately I have to go back to BW 1.5 as this version does not have this annoying bug (apart from some other bugs of course). I hope the next version of BW does not have this bug... |
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| Author: | Bjossi [ Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | BW 1.6: UT crashes/hung up after system restart |
This isn´t a bug with BW, there is something regarding your system causing this. I haven´t had this problem with 1.6 nor the rest of the players as far as I know. Try a fresh reInstall and see what happens. |
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| Author: | WonderSlug [ Fri Mar 31, 2006 1:23 am ] |
| Post subject: | BW 1.6: UT crashes/hung up after system restart |
The fact that you said the Windows mouse cursor appears on your ** WINDOWS 98 ** system tells me that Windows 98 is the culprit. You are probably running out of system resources, via Win98's limited GDI heap space or smallish paging file. There may be a popup window from Win98 complaining about lack of resources that is getting obscured by the UT app I wouldn't run any post-year2000 game on any system that isn't running Windows 2000 or XP, as those true 32-bit OSes have much more system resources available and can fully take advantage of 256/512/1024 MB of RAM. Try running BW 1.60 and UT2004 (with 3369 patch) on a Windows 2000 or XP system. |
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| Author: | Bjossi [ Fri Mar 31, 2006 2:55 am ] |
| Post subject: | BW 1.6: UT crashes/hung up after system restart |
He doesn´t mention that he has Windows 98, at least not in the post above. Are you running anything else apart from BW, other mutators? This might be some kind of UScript conflict, assuming you get the UT2004 error dialog, not the Windows one. |
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| Author: | ShadowBlade [ Fri Mar 31, 2006 1:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | BW 1.6: UT crashes/hung up after system restart |
BW rarely hangs or bombs actually.. most of the time it can be attributed to conflicts with other mod/mutators, lower system, OS beef, and so on.. as with most mods, conflicting with others is usually a problem.. |
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