COD4 troubles...

Bastid · Post by **Bastid** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 9:54 pm

CTD when i try to click past adverts and movie... i have shut everything i can off in task manager and tried again... didnt try to click past mivies and ect... got to profile screen, changed some settings hit apply and CTD... did this in the demo as well, but after awhile i could play the whole demo... i dont remember doing anything because i gave up on it. Now the full version is doing the same thing... help? Please? TIA

AMD Athlon 2600
BFG Nvidia 7600 GS
gig o ram
Win XP Pro SP2
Nvidia 163.75_forceware_winxp_32bit_english_whql
WD 80gig SE

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:25 pm

hmm direct x updated?

Edit: also try to load the 169.04 drivers

and look at this

http://www.agonyrealm.net/index.php?opt ... 51.msg3742

Bastid · Post by **Bastid** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:39 pm

ive tried those on 2 seperate occasions and they dont seem to do anything... they load and everything but after i cycle the puter off and on, its like i dont have any drivers... even the nvidia thingy in the taskbar is not there...

and direct x is what came on the dvd... probably newer than what i had.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:07 am

Bastid wrote:ive tried those on 2 seperate occasions and they dont seem to do anything... they load and everything but after i cycle the puter off and on, its like i dont have any drivers... even the nvidia thingy in the taskbar is not there...

and direct x is what came on the dvd... probably newer than what i had.

I had to set a certain dx file in my win32/system directory to get my server up and going..not sure if that would help you or not.

go here to check to see if your direct x is updated
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

Outlaw · Post by **Outlaw** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 10:33 am

You could try this:

Go to control panel > sound and audio devices > speaker settings > advanced.
Performance > put your hardware acceleration to the first step next to none.
So the second one from the left.
Klik apply .

Now start your game again ,and see if it's better.
Just a hunch , but i've had some games shutting down on me , wich i could solve with this solution.

Good luck....

Bastid · Post by **Bastid** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 10:58 am

I just tried your suggestion Outlaw, and it didnt work, but thank you. It seems to happen when there is a change in the game, like right now i am in the sas training camp after the target practice, i have to go meet some guy, i hit the second way point and thats when it just shuts down.

Outlaw · Post by **Outlaw** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:22 am

Mmmm , not an expert either ,but seems like a hardware acceleration problem to me.
So maybe it's your graphics card driver then.
I'm having the BFG 7900 GTO card , wich has trouble with the newer nvidia drivers.
This even was advised by BFG techstaff to me ,to use an older driver for the 7 series.

At the time i installed the 168 nvidia driver ,and had a 3D score of 6200 on 3Dmark 05 ,and only 17 % of the normal 2D score on http://www.pcpitstop.com/pcpitstop/
After installing the 84.21 driver, i had 7800 on 3Dmark ,and 120% on Pcpitstop 2D score ,so the right driver surely makes a difference.......

So i'm using the 84.21 driver , wich had no problems at all till now.
Can't tell if some games will run slower with this driver , but cod 4 runs fine with it.
So try this driver first ,i would suggest........

P.s. I'm also a member on several COD forums ,so i'll ask around for ya!

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 12:00 pm

i had already recommended one of the 169.0? drivers.. any of the last 3 of that series should work great for you. Just make sure your fully removing them with say Driver Cleaner Pro

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=745

Outlaw · Post by **Outlaw** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 12:39 pm

Sava700 wrote:i had already recommended one of the 169.0? drivers.. any of the last 3 of that series should work great for you. Just make sure your fully removing them with say Driver Cleaner Pro

Yes ,make sure old drivers remains are gone before installing new one.
Don't know about the 169 driver ,but i certainly wouldn't go for the 168 one.
Because i'm pretty sure this isn't very good for your BFG 7 series card.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 2:36 pm

Outlaw wrote:Yes ,make sure old drivers remains are gone before installing new one.
Don't know about the 169 driver ,but i certainly wouldn't go for the 168 one.
Because i'm pretty sure this isn't very good for your BFG 7 series card.

there are 3 different 169 beta drivers

169.01
169.02
169.04

Bastid · Post by **Bastid** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 5:55 pm

they are the .01s
ill try some different ones tehn... thnx

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 6:54 pm

Bastid wrote:they are the .01s
ill try some different ones tehn... thnx

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_169.04.html

Outlaw · Post by **Outlaw** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 11:41 am

Well i've tried the 169.04 driver myself now , and it has the same issues as the 168 driver had.
So it doesn't work well with my card at all.........
Could be the GPU / MOBO combo wich causes this, but i've gone back to the 84.21 driver now ,wich doesn't have these issues with my BFG card.

Any luck yet on your prob Bastid?

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 11:52 am

the 169.09's are out now

Bastid · Post by **Bastid** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 1:19 pm

no, this rig probably needs to be bulldozed... im having alot of different problems in alot of different places... not just gaming... so im thinking the system is just too unstable for this intensive of a game.