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Paintball 2: The Game => Help and Support => Topic started by: Laged on August 11, 2008, 07:42:28 AM

Title: Crash to desktop
Post by: Laged on August 11, 2008, 07:42:28 AM: I just got my new computer with Vista home premium (32 bit) and an ATI radeon HD 4870 video card.

I downloaded the build 23 full standalone and installed it as i did with my old computer. I opened it, and if I open any map or any server paintball 2 freezes and after a while crashes to the desktop. The only error message I get is "Paintball 2 stopped working".

Any ideas? I didn't find anything similar searching.
Title: Re: Crash to desktop
Post by: KnacK on August 11, 2008, 08:34:09 AM: Did you check your event log for error messages?

ATI cards have been known to be issues with DP, add in Vista and you probably have a driver issue.
Title: Re: Crash to desktop
Post by: Laged on August 11, 2008, 10:02:07 AM: Uhm, how does one check the event log?:O
Title: Re: Crash to desktop
Post by: KnacK on August 11, 2008, 10:06:32 AM: http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Monitoring-Event-Logs-Windows-Vista.html
Title: Re: Crash to desktop
Post by: Cameron on August 11, 2008, 02:55:40 PM: Ahahahaha, I told you Vista would screw u up when u got the computer Laged. But do what KnacK said.
Title: Re: Crash to desktop
Post by: jitspoe on August 11, 2008, 04:47:35 PM: Surprisingly, I didn't have any problem running Paintball2 on Vista with my new laptop.

But I have an nVidia card.
Title: Re: Crash to desktop
Post by: Laged on August 11, 2008, 11:08:47 PM: Cameron is too evil.

I checked the event log:

paintball2.exe
0.0.0.0
483ca3d1
atioglxx.dll
6.14.10.7769
486d907f
c0000005
0003e1b2
a45c
01c8fc37f2125660

I don't really understand what that means, maybe someone else knows?
Title: Re: Crash to desktop
Post by: KnacK on August 12, 2008, 05:02:19 AM: Go get the latest drivers for your video card
Title: Re: Crash to desktop
Post by: Laged on August 12, 2008, 05:03:44 AM: Hmh, I thought I installed them already.
So I just delete the old ones (uhm, how can I make sure they _really_ are deleted?) and install the new ones which I download from the net?
Title: Re: Crash to desktop
Post by: KnacK on August 12, 2008, 05:07:35 AM: download the new drivers
reboot in to safe mode
remove your driver s from add/remove programs.
reboot normally
install the new drivers
reboot
Title: Re: Crash to desktop
Post by: Laged on August 12, 2008, 05:09:09 AM: And uhm, how do I reboot in to safe mode?

EDIT: nvm I just googled it. I'll try it now.
Title: Re: Crash to desktop
Post by: Cameron on August 12, 2008, 05:29:21 AM: yes, I am evil :)
Title: Re: Crash to desktop
Post by: Laged on August 12, 2008, 05:37:26 AM: I installed the newest drivers (version 8.7) as KnacK said, paintball still crashes.

Event log:
paintball2.exe
0.0.0.0
483ca3d1
atioglxx.dll
6.14.10.7769
486d907f
c0000005
0003e1b2
1404
01c8fc6efc41538a
Title: Re: Crash to desktop
Post by: sniped on August 20, 2008, 09:40:53 PM: Vista hates DP, and wants you not to play. Curse you Mircosoft!
Title: Re: Crash to desktop
Post by: jitspoe on August 21, 2008, 08:27:39 AM: Sounds like a driver issue. Is it crashing immediately when you load it? Perhaps you need to install older drivers. If you ever get ATI drivers that work, don't touch them. ATI constantly breaks their drivers.
Title: Re: Crash to desktop
Post by: Laged on August 21, 2008, 08:30:58 AM: It doesn't crash when I am using the menus and stuff - but when I enter a server, the game freezes after 2 seconds. Then after a while it crashes.
Does someone know which drivers should I install then?
It's kind of weird - other games like battlefield 2 and crysis work fine without errors on my new computer.

EDIT: I just tested once more, I tested midnight 2 and it worked for 2 minutes or at least longer than before. Then it crashed, just like usually.

EDIT 2: Great, it seems to work now. I had the version 8.7 of the drivers, the newest version ( 8.8 ) just came out and I downloaded it. I installed it and now it works - thank you all for helping with this :)

@Cameron, I said it would work :D
Title: Re: Crash to desktop
Post by: Cameron on August 22, 2008, 04:00:39 AM: But Vista is crappy.... Go buy XP or I will take a 24 hour flight to come shoot you.
Title: Re: Crash to desktop
Post by: sniped on August 22, 2008, 10:30:13 AM: Quote from: Cameron on August 22, 2008, 04:00:39 AM
But Vista is crappy.... Go buy XP or I will take a 24 hour flight to come shoot you.
I SORRY THEY STOPPED SELLING IT!!
Title: Re: Crash to desktop
Post by: Cameron on August 23, 2008, 03:32:21 AM: Do I care if they stopped selling it? I know what I'm talking about.... How do you think I bought another 3 license codes for it then? Explain that.