[EddiE314]

Post your problems here.


I'll return later to post mine, gotta go get a cig and try to fix my problem some more.

[EddiE314]

My problem is as follows:


After installing new drivers and the v1.1 patch the game actually plays without corrupt textures. But now the new problem is, when playing for a period of time, the game will:

Lock up for no reason.
Restart the computer.
Hang on a Blank Screen.

All of these problems seemed to be driver related at first, i tried various drivers ranging from Detonator 3's (6.62-14.60) and Detonator 4's (21.83-23.10).

The Detonator 4's seem to be the best because the game will actually play for over 5 minutes without messing up whereas the Det 3's will mess up in a matter of seconds.

Anyone else experience this??

[EddiE314]

pimpin_228 gets this error:

Quote:

Error: Unable to initialize DirectX 8.0 -- Device creation failed!
File: c: \projects\RF_PC\vsdk\gr\directx\gr_direct3d.cpp - Line: 1872

A critical error has occured. The program cannot continue to run.
Press ok to exit the program.

[EddiE314]

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[Xiven]

Usual story. Eidos did it ("we don't support XP") with Project Eden, although they did later release a patch to make it work under XP so I have to give them credit for that.

[insaNity]

I had focusing problems when multitasking (accidently pressing windows key)

[Admiral LSD]

Quote:

Error: Unable to initialize DirectX 8.0 -- Device creation failed!
File: c: \projects\RF_PC\vsdk\gr\directx\gr_direct3d.cpp - Line: 1872

A critical error has occured. The program cannot continue to run.
Press ok to exit the program.

I used to see this problem posted all the time on the games official forum... Its caused by having drivers that don't support all the DirectX 8 stuff the game needs. In nearly all cases the problem was solved by a driver upgrade.

[EddiE314]

Admiral LSD: Yes, that is very true and what fixed it the time i saw it, but i still can't keep Windows XP from Locking up when playing Red Faction.

[EddiE314]

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[Cazza]

rofl nice1 eddie m8 u tell the fukin smucks

[SHS]

EddiE314 did really send the reply to them?.
If so LoL

[DosFreak]

I played the game upon release and it was buggy. memory usage exceeded 650+m at time (when I checked...may have gone higher) also it would chug at times due to the excessive memory usage so I would have to quit and reload. Also it would hang and I would have to ctrl+alt+del and reload. All in all from start to finish I would say I had to reload AVP2 20+ times due to it's bugginess. Fortunately it never once crashed windows itself so it was a simple matter to start the game back up again. Haven't tried the patch because I've already beaten the game.

[DosFreak]

DOH! This thread is about Red Faction not AVP2!

Ignore my post above then......

[Cazza]

mmmm ive just bought the game and im running XP everything is running fine on a kyro2 i think that nvidia is fukin up there drivers :P

[DaveBC]

I don't have any probs with RF with Windows XP Home. Smooth from start to finish..

System: Athlon slot A 850 mhz
KX133 chipset w/4in1427v(a),VAGP410,IDE_MPD3014
256mb Kinmax SDRAM CAS2 CLK2 PC133
Gforce2 GTS/Pro Nvidia Ref Win2000/XP 23.11
Soundblaster Live X Gamer 5.1 XP/5.12.01.3210

[ri-rilot]

No problems with RF here. Runs fine on XP and 2k and hasn't crashed once.
Sys specs:
Athlon 1GHz @ 1.4GHz
1.5GB RAM
Nvidia GeForce2 Ultra (23.11)
Abit KT7A
TB SantaCruz

[Four and Twenty]

runs fine for me on xp unpatched

specs below

[UberNeuman]

No problems at all - and RF is unpatched on my rig..