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[Mortus]

Hi!

I just bought Nightfire and I'm having very weird things happening to my computer. I installed everything perfectly... When I run the game, the intro, the movies, everything is fine. When I start a new game, the game starts for about 30 seconds and then crashes. My computer freezes for about 15 seconds and then the screen resolution gets very low (about 320x256) and NightFire minimizes. When I maximize it again, I can here the sound (music and gunfire) but my screen is black. Windows actually gives an error message saying that it detected an error with my graphics cards. I don't understand why this would be since I have the latest drivers and a card that has been able to play anything that has recently been released! (UT2003,MoH,CS) I have DirectX 9.0 installed. So any help would be greatly appreciated! I already checked for the driver version and it is the latest one...

Here are my specs:

Intel Pentium 4 / 1.7GHz
20 GB Hard Drive
256 SDRAM
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 16 MB
TOSHIBA SATELLITE 1900-102

Please! Any ideas are welcomed!!!

Have a nice day!

MorTus.
http://www.d2realm.com/
aka TheGuardian.

[mrdefender]

Sorry I don't have an ATI card (or that issue for that matter...).

I know that I had some odd errors with some games, I found that running the 'disk cleanup' helped alot.. Game was crashing and giving wierd errors (I think video settings poped up once or twice..).

I was told (this was back when 'Spider-Man The Movie' game was released..) that if I have somewhat alot (more than 500K) in my disk cleanup, it could cause lag and, eventually, crashes.

Though XP isn't quite crash friendly.. the program doesnt respond for 10 seconds and you get a 'NOT RESPONDING' error/message.....

Anyone here have an ATI card that can help out this guy?


Oh. ... they might need your Windows version... (i.e; 98, ME, 2K, XP, ...)

[Mortus]

Hi mrdefender!

I tried the disk cleanup thing and I even stopped running Explorer.exe on my computer but still no luck! What's odd is that the time the game runs seems to be completely random. Sometimes it will crash in 15 seconds, other times in 2 minutes... very odd. I have Windows XP Family Edition by the way... XP is always returning the same message. However, last night, I was able to crack into the actual system calls that "bond.exe" was making to Windows and I pulled out the following, more useful errors:

Loaded 'C:Program FilesEA GamesNightfireBond.exe', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32ntdll.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32kernel32.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:Program FilesEA GamesNightfirePlatform.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32user32.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32gdi32.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32advapi32.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32rpcrt4.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32ole32.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32shimeng.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSAppPatchaclayers.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32shell32.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32msvcrt.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32shlwapi.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32userenv.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32winspool.drv', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSAppPatchacgenral.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32winmm.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32msacm32.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32version.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32uxtheme.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSWinSxSx86_Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.10.0_x-ww_f7fb5805comctl32.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32comctl32.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32secur32.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:Program FilesEA GamesNightfireengine.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32shfolder.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32wsock32.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32ws2_32.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32ws2help.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:Program FilesEA GamesNightfireContainers.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:Program FilesEA GamesNightfireGUI.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:Program FilesEA GamesNightfireStreams.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:Program FilesEA GamesNightfirezlib.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:Program FilesEA GamesNightfireRenderD3D.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32d3d8.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32d3d8thk.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32ddraw.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32dciman32.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32oleaut32.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:Program FilesEA GamesNightfirebondcl_dllsclient.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:Program FilesEA GamesNightfireAudio.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32dsound.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32wdmaud.drv', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32msacm32.drv', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32midimap.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32ksuser.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:Program FilesEA GamesNightfireAudioFilterOgg.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:Program FilesEA GamesNightfirevorbisfile.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:Program FilesEA GamesNightfireogg.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:Program FilesEA GamesNightfirevorbis.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:Program FilesEA GamesNightfireAudioFilterWav.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32dinput.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32hid.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32setupapi.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32clbcatq.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32comres.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32quartz.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32devenum.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32msdmo.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32DivXAF.ax', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32SubTitDS.ax', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32comdlg32.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32d3dim700.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32ir50_32.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32imaadp32.acm', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:WINDOWSsystem32MMSwitch.ax', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:Program FilesEA GamesNightfirebonddllsgame.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
The thread 0x4D4 has exited with code 0 (0x0).

"this" CXX0017 Error: symbol "this" not found

--- end of file ---

This doesn't mean much of anything to me but maybe someone out there could me interpret these errors which seem to be pretty redundant: "no matching symbolic information found"

I don't know why this is...

Unlike your errors, I don't get a NOT RESPONDING error... the game still runs! Only I get a completely black screen as if the video card had stopped producing the graphics that it's supposed to...

Thanks for you help mrdefender!

Anyone have any suggestions for the error messages above?

[mrdefender]

Windows XP Family Edition? (im guessing home edition).. im not sure but isn't explorer.exe windows? like the desktop or whatever... ur screen when ur in windows.. ?

I remember back in the "win 95" being new... when windows crashed, it said either kernel32.dll or explorer.exe ...

[superracer0022]

yeah explorer.exe is basically windows so if one of your folders stops responding and you have to end it you basically have to restart unless you set it so new folders open as new resources

[mrdefender]

Yah... but It never happend to me. .... if something crashed (i.e when I opend a folder), I can do 'end task' on the folder and only the folder would close..

Doesnt work with internet explorer... if one crashes and I say 'end task', it almost always takes all other IE windows...


notices that we're diverting from the main topic.... Oh No!

Em.. yes.. Em.. so.. does anyone know how to help Mortus?

[UnclePeJa]

I'm not an expert, but could the problem be that you only have a 16mb video card? I think the game needs at least 32mb

[Mortus]

I don't think this is the problem because when i run the EIDOS game tester, it says that my system is perfectly capable of running Nightfire...

Any other ideas?

[mrdefender]

Yes, run the right tester

EIDOS didn't make Night Fire, EA Did (well, actually.. its gear box...)

So run the (?) EAsy thing