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I´m having trouble with Independence War - Defiance. Game loads fine, I can start a mission and complete it. Now, if I try to run the next mission, the loading bar appears for ´bout 2 secs, then I get crashed back to the desktop. Strange, huh? ------------------ Celeron 300A @ 450 256 MB SD-RAM 40 GB HD SB-Live! Value 3Com 905 TX AVM Fritz! Classic GeForce 256 DDR (Annihilator Pro, Det. 5.16) Adaptec 2940 SCSI-2 Pioneer DVD-303 SCSI

Sound isn´t the problem, just head over to www.softsystem.co.uk/page3.htm for their SoundFX proggie. Darn, if I only could get Privateer (1) to work with W2k...

Sorry to disapoint you, but there´s no way to do so. Try installing the IG2 patch to reduce the choppiness a bit, but that´s all you can do. According to the manufacturer, choppiness is due to some incompatibility with Win2k, they said something like "was not programmed to run under W2k". Gotta be thankful the game is running at all...

I downloaded and applied the 420 patch to a fresh installation of UT. Since D3D alway was too slow on my system, (at least 10 - 20 fps slower than OGL) I immediately switched to OpenGL just to see the game crashing back to W2k while starting UT. The afterwards enabled D3D works, how fast I didn´t check yet. Anyone encountered similar problems? ------------------ Celeron 300A @ 450 256 MB SD-RAM 40 GB HD SB-Live! Value 3Com 905 TX AVM Fritz! Classic GeForce 256 DDR (Annihilator Pro, Det. 5.16) Adaptec 2940 SCSI-2 Pioneer DVD-303 SCSI

Like I said before, OpenGL is still A LOT better than D3D. Just downgraded to Detonator 5.13 and started UT in OpenGL mode. Boy was that fast!

Another way would be to manipulate the .INF file of the drivers. This was posted a while ago so credits go to someone else (don´t know who, sorry ) Open the NV4_DISP.INF with the notepad. Go to the line reading "NV5 (TNT2) Supported Reference Modes" (of course without the " ) Now all you have to do is removing the refresh rates you don´t want your games to run on. Reinstall the drivers. Another approach might be to tell Windows to use a different monitor. For example, my Hyundai DeluxeScan 17B+ is capable of running 1024x768 @ 85 hz. But if I install Windows´ own driver for it it won´t get above 60 hz, too. So I played around a bit with different monitor drivers and found the one for the 21" Hyundai screen to fit perfectly. 85 hz again One final word to PowerStrip: installing it isn´t the only thing you´ve got to do to get higher refresh rates in games. You have to create presets for your games, too. SKIP IF YOU ALREADY TRIED To do this, right click on the PowerStrip icon in the taskbar and choose PowerStrip Configuration. Go to the Presets tab. In the Associations field point PowerStrip to the .EXE file of your game. In Display Settings, choose the desired resolution, the color depth and the refresh rate you want to run your game in. Now, drag and drop the chosen settings to the gray Associations fiels by left clicking and holding somewhere on the gray ground within the Display Settings field and move up the pointer to the gray background of the Associations fiels, then releasing the button.

So I upgraded to Detonator 5.17 and Powerstrip 2.67. Dunno what caused this, but D3D performance is much better since last time I tried. It´s still far away from being perfect (=OpenGL ) but it´s finally playable. It still stutters a little while flying around with the Redeemer. BTW, does someone know where to get Detonator 5.22 for W2k?

New compatibility patch available. It contains the februrary release, too. See http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/

AFAIK (self experience) this isn´t needed in W2K anymore. For example I booted up my machine without my SCSI Scanner being powered on, then I had to scan something and simply switched it on. Worked right away.

Try the following: get yourself Virtual Drive 5.1 (at www.farstone.com) Install it. The software will create another CD-ROM drive which will use the first free drive letter. Create an image of your StarCraft CD. Insert this newly created virtual CD into the virtual CD-ROM drive. Remove the original CD from your physically existing drive. Install and try running the game using that image. If that works, I´m afraid you need a new CD-ROM drive OK, so we now all know your english sucks. Let me tell you something. I, and I guess all of the other guys here too don´t care if your english is good as long as we can undestand what you want. My english isn´t the best neither so please keep those comments out. No offense meant

Dreck, hätte das ganze ja auch einfach in deutsch schreiben können

you´re right, there is a program called "APCOMPAT.EXE" located in the "Tools" subdirectory of your Win2k cd. Doesn´t work with anything I tried thou

... from spying out your machine? A pal of mine mentioned that there are such registry tweaks but could not remember them. Please help me clearify that

I´ve got a big problem with Windows 2000´s error log creation in case a program crashes. Since I never look into that logfile, I´d like to disable creating it, but chainging the options under "System" won´t prevent this. Please help me out on this one

Read SHS´s posting very carefully and the location will reveal itself to you You sure may delete that crap, freed up ´bout 20 megs in my case

See my file on www.freedrive.com Follow this link to access it http://www.freedrive.com/ASP/PostFolderShortcut.asp?fsc=5185721 You must have an account on FreeDrive to get files from others IMPORTANT! Make a backup of your original CDFS.SYS file in case the other CDFS screws up CD access

I don´t know if my original StarCraft CD works, but the Virtual Drive image I created works flawlessly, even without a crack. I think your error message is caused by one or both of the following issues: 1. do you remember some older postings about StarCraft not being able to run with Win98 (no SE), but it worked flawlessy with Win95? This was due to some updated CDFS drivers within Win98 which were not compatible to the Win95 ones. I´d suggest there is a similar problem with Win2k. I´m not sure if this works with Win2k, but try replacing the "cdfs.sys" file in the "\WINNT\system32\drivers\" with the one from either WinNT 4.0 or Win95, where the WinNT version should be more compatible. 2. Try inserting the CD into your first CD-ROM drive (ok, so that one´s relatively cheap but might do the trick )

I don´t know. Do you think informations from one guy can fix the problem hundreds of others must have, too? No offense meant here

Thanx alot!

Why don´t you use Farstone´s Virtual Drive 5.1? It surely got it´s problems, too (like not being able to set up more than one virtual drive, or the inability to change the drive letter) but besides that, it´s working fine on my system. www.farstone.com

A creative source is always something good, but if the source is Creative you´re doomed. Star Trek Armada for example is unplayable, sound stutters like crazy. Reducing the acceleration level for my soundcard won´t fix the problem either. I guess Armada is what I described in the third paragraph "never worth playing anyway".

Dragon-Lord : did you try the DELL Liveware drivers? ledzeppel : go to the \WINNT\SYSTEM32 subdirectory and look for dvdplay.exe ------------------ Celeron 300A @ 450 256 MB SD-RAM 40 GB HD SB-Live! Value 3Com 905 TX AVM Fritz! Classic GeForce 256 DDR (Annihilator Pro) Adaptec 2940 SCSI-2 Pioneer DVD-303 SCSI

First of all, Microsoft included DirectX 7. They would not have done so if their newest OS wasn´t meant to run games as well. Second, Windows 9x crashes far too often. I´m still waiting for W2k to crash. As you guess, it never did. Third, every good game runs flawlessly under Win2000. The games that won´t were never worth playing anyway. Fourth, games run faster under Win2k than they did using Win9x (about 20% faster on my system). Fifth, Windows 2000 has the best of all software DVD players built right into the OS. The best in playback quality, that is. Playing Matrix with WinDVD or PowerDVD is a pain in the ass because it just hangs on heavy duty action scenes. DVDplay works like a charm. (OK, so this is not gaming related but I had to write it anyway )

Using Detonator 5.13 I´ve not been able to run GLQuake (well, it ran, but rather slowly and with some of the most perverted distorted graphics I´ve ever seen). Downgrading to 3.65 didn´t fix the problem either. Instead I upgraded not just back to 5.13 but one steap ahead, 5.14 and everything runs so nicely that if GlQuake was a woman I´d ... (I´ll leave that to your imagination)

75 Mhz? Where can I buy this great hardware you obivously own? Just kiddin´ One way to choose a desired refresh rate is by installing and correctly configuring PowerStrip (Link can be found here on NTcompatible). The other way would be going to the Start menu , choose "Run..." and type "dxdiag" (of course without the ") at the appearing prompt. There, choose the "More Help" tab, click on "override", mark "override value" and enter the desired refresh rate